Risk Analytics Engineer: Build Dashboards & Data Pipelines

IMC Trading; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 175,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

IMC Trading seeks a Software Engineer to build technology and analytical frameworks for understanding, measuring, and optimizing risk across trading businesses. You will design tools for risk managers, develop production systems, and work with global teams to improve exposure analyses, scenarios, capital usage, and liquidity across asset classes.

This role blends software engineering, data science, and financial markets, with autonomy to enhance platforms, build new tools, and contribute to a

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong development skills in Java and/or Python.
• Experience building and supporting production systems.
• Interest in financial markets, risk management, data science, and quantitative analysis.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Self-starter with a high degree of ownership and initiative.

Responsibilities

• Design and build analytical tools that help Risk Managers understand portfolio exposures, stress scenarios, capital usage, and emerging risks.
• Build high-end dashboards and visualization tools for stakeholders globally.
• Work with large data sets, data pipelines that support storage, retrieval, and analysis across the risk organization.
• Partner directly with Risk Managers to identify opportunities and rapidly translate ideas into production systems while collaborating within the firm's global risk development organization.
• Collaborate with engineering, trading, quantitative research, operations, and data teams across the firm.
• Take ownership of projects from concept through production deployment.

Skills

Java

Python

Production systems

Financial markets interest

Analytical problem-solving

Ownership mindset

Tools

Kubernetes

React

PostgreSQL

ClickHouse

Parquet/Hadoop

ETL frameworks/APIs

Job description

IMC Trading seeks a Software Engineer to build technology and analytical frameworks for understanding, measuring, and optimizing risk across trading businesses. You will design tools for risk managers, develop production systems, and work with global teams to improve exposure analyses, scenarios, capital usage, and liquidity across asset classes.

This role blends software engineering, data science, and financial markets, with autonomy to enhance platforms, build new tools, and contribute to a