Trading Strategy Software Engineer

Quant Blueprint LLC; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Quant Blueprint LLC in Amsterdam is seeking a Software Engineer to enhance trading strategies using innovative technology. The role involves collaborating with traders to develop high-performance applications and optimize trading algorithms.

The ideal candidate has at least 3 years of experience, a Master's or PhD in Computer Science, and expertise in Java and Python. Enjoy a dynamic environment where you’ll take ownership of your projects and work on cutting-edge software.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years experience as a Software Engineer.
• Solid understanding of algorithms, data structures, and concurrency.
• Master's or PhD in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with traders to understand and implement trading strategies.
• Develop and maintain applications, algorithms, and automation for trading teams.
• Continuously enhance the performance of strategy systems.

Skills

Programming abilities

Quantitative and analytical skills

Adaptability in evolving environments

Education

Master's or PhD degree in Computer Science

Tools

Java 21+

Python 3

Job description

Overview

At IMC, technology is at the core of everything we do. Our innovative in-house software drives millions of trading decisions daily, allowing us to outperform the competition through faster, more effective decision-making. Based in Amsterdam, IMC's Trading Strategy Software Engineers deliver a wide variety of applications, systems and tools, including trading algorithm implementations, options pricing, volatility calculations, simulation frameworks, and data analysis & visualization tools for traders.

Your Core Responsibilities

• You will work together with traders, researchers, quants, and fellow engineers. You will take ownership of the end-to-end product development process for deliver high-impact projects -from requirements gathering to production deployment. Your goal is to deliver high-performance, reliable software using frequent iterations to get quick feedback and shorten our time-to-market. Key responsibilities include:
• Close collaboration with traders to gain a deep understanding of trading strategies and implement them optimally
• Building cutting edge solutions by developing, testing, deploying, tuning, and maintaining a variety of applications, algorithms, new research infrastructures, and automation for trading teams
• Continuously improving functional and operational sides of strategy systems to enhance user experience and overall system performance

Your Skills and Experience

• At least 3 years of experience as a Software Engineer with excellent programming abilities
• Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals, including algorithms, complexity analysis, data structures, memory models, and concurrency models
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills and a keen interest in applying them to the trading field
• Ability to work independently, analyze business requirements, communicate with stakeholders, take full ownership of the solutions you build and deliver
• Highly adaptable and able to thrive in uncertain, rapidly evolving environments
• Master's or PhD degree (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science or a related field
• Experience with JVM-based languages (Java, Kotlin) or Python is a huge plus
• Advanced math and quantitative skills are a plus
• Experience with and interest in building information-rich user-facing applications, GUIs, UXs is a plus
• Experience with large-scale data and research pipelines compute clusters is a plus

In our current tech stack we work with Java 21+ and Python 3 as the main programming languages to implement our Strategy software. We constantly evolve our technology stack and look for tools that best suit the problems at hand. If a new technology holds promise, we actively explore, adopt, and develop it.