Python Software Engineer

At IMC, technology is not a department; it’s at the heart of everything we do. Developed in-house, our innovative software makes millions of trading decisions daily, and we win by making better and faster decisions than our competition. Our Amsterdam Backoffice Development team creates scalable business-critical applications, tools and automated tasks to mainly support IMC’s Amsterdam, London, Zug and Mumbai’s Mid-Office and Compliance teams.

Your Core Responsibilities

You will work on a wide range of projects related to the Mid-Office department who are responsible for trade, position and P&L reconciliation. In electronic trading, transactions are happening at high speeds and enormous volumes. Mid-Office validates and provides detailed information about the performance of our strategies and plays a crucial role at the start of our trading day to ensure that our trading desks have a clear and accurate picture of their exposure and risk. You will be working alongside other engineers and Mid-Office analysts, contributing to both small scripts/jobs, as well as building and improving bigger full-stack tools and applications. You take ownership for end-to-end product development – from requirements gathering to production. Your main responsibitities:

• Designing and building bespoke tools, applications, dashboards and automations for IMC’s Mid-Office and Leadership.
• Occasional investigating and troubleshooting of operational incidents
• You will sit together with the Mid-Office department, understand their day-to-day opertations and help them to further improve their processes. You will be proposing new tools and/or automations and will work closely with your colleagues form the Backoffice Development team to deliver on these.

Your Skills and Experience

• Deep technical knowledge of Python. We use a range of Python libraries and frameworks such as FastAPI (AsyncIO), APScheduler, Pandas, Polars, RQ and Pytest;
• Experience with DevOps, databases or frontend frameworks is as plus. Some examples of tools we frequently interact with: Kubernetes, Docker, Redis, PostgreSQL, Dremio, HDFS and Kafka.
• A critical mindset and the ability to challenge ideas and solutions, not to take things for granted, verify information and dig into details to find all corner cases;
• Experience working with financial data is considered a plus. You’re curious about the financial world, enthusiastic about technologies and you’re not afraid to ask questions.

Our tech stack includes an ever-evolving range of systems and technologies, and our engineers have the freedom to choose the best solution for the problem at hand. If a new technology has the potential to add value, we’ll actively invest in exploring, adopting and developing it. 

About Us

IMC is a leading trading firm, known worldwide for our advanced, low-latency technology and world-class execution capabilities. Over the past 30 years, we’ve been a stabilizing force in the financial markets – providing the essential liquidity our counterparties depend on. Across offices in the US, Europe, and Asia Pacific, our talented employees are united by our entrepreneurial spirit, exceptional culture, and commitment to giving back. It's a strong foundation that allows us to grow and add new capabilities, year after year. From entering dynamic new markets, to developing a state-of-the-art research environment and diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to imagine what could be and work together to make it happen.