Python Software Engineer

IMC

Your IMC journey as a Graduate Software Engineer will begin with a five-week Global Trainee Programme led by our seasoned engineers and traders alongside graduates from all three IMC regions: Europe, the United States, and Asia-Pacific. During this traineeship, you’ll deepen your knowledge about trading and financial markets, understand the tools and systems used at IMC, and learn how to write production software, craftsmanship and advanced topics in C++, Java or Python. Your training will continue back at your local office, where you’ll receive support from your dedicated mentor, an experienced software engineer at IMC. What happens next is up to you – on our Execution teams you might build anything from advanced networks to proprietary algorithms, while on our Strategy teams you could design systems powering big data and cutting-edge analytics.   YOUR CORE RESPONSIBILITIES * Develop cutting-edge technology in advanced algorithms * Support the development of our trading platform and software stack * Gain experience across the entire software development lifecycle * Collaborate with traders, quant researchers, and hardware engineers to improve our systems   YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES * In your ultimate year of study in computer science, software engineering, or a related field graduating, and are seeking to join IMC full-time in February or August 2026 * Proficiency in C++ or Java is required. Additionally, experience with Python is preferred * A working knowledge of algorithms and data structures * First-class analytical skills and a desire to solve complicated problems programmatically * A genuine interest in financial markets (no prior knowledge or experience is required)   Please note: You’ll have the opportunity to complete the recruitment process in your preferred programming language (Java or C++). Please note, however, that exclusive use of one language cannot be guaranteed. If you have already applied for this position during the current recruitment season and were not selected, you may reapply when the next recruitment season begins in September 2026. We encourage you to focus on enhancing your skillset before reapplying. Due to U.S. consulate restrictions, candidates from certain nations (including Russia, Belarus, and Iran) are required to apply for their visa in a designated third country or to prove strong ties with a country of residency. Since the global traineeship begins shortly after employment starts, there is not enough time to establish the ties with the Netherlands which is needed for approval. As a result, we are unable to proceed with your candidacy for the graduate traineeship programme at this time. We greatly appreciate your understanding and hope to consider you for future opportunities. If you are a dual passport holder of another nationality or a European citizen who wants to relocate back to Europe, you remain welcome to apply and should inform our campus recruitment team of your situation: CampusEU@imc.com. For more information on our technology interview process, please review our preparation guide here.    About Us IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989, we’ve been a stabilizing force in financial markets, providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and India, our talented quant researchers, engineers, traders, and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative, high-performance culture, and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies, and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.

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C++ 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. IMC’s Amsterdam-based C++ Execution development teams work on software that sits directly in the latency-critical loop of our technology stack and touches every part of our organisation. From ensuring our connectivity to the market and handling massive amounts of data, to implementing complex trading algorithms and integrating advanced hardware solutions. Your Core Responsibilities: As a software engineer, you’ll work in multidisciplinary teams alongside other engineers as well as traders, researchers, and quants to deliver challenging projects, while taking ownership for end-to-end product development – from requirements gathering to production. You’ll write reliable, high-performance software while balancing time to production with quality and testability. Advanced automated testing and daily deployments will allow you to achieve agile and incremental benefits. Within a complex landscape of varying systems and technologies, you’ll be constantly challenged to consider trade-offs between latency, throughput, simplicity, scalability and maintainability. * Coding, developing, testing, deploying and maintaining applications and automations for Trading Teams and/or Hardware Development and Execution Teams. * Working through internal client requests. Gathering details, requirements and feedback from a range of internal stakeholders in order to implement creative automation solutions using innovative coding practices. Your Skills and Experience: * Minimum 5+ years professional working experience as a software engineer post graduation * Strong programming skills in C++. Experience in the latest versions of C++ is highly desirable * Familiarity with Python scripting * Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes * Comfortable in Linux environments * Experience gathering business requirements, communicating with key stakeholders and delivering solutions quickly * The ability to work on greenfield projects under minimal supervision and to take full ownership of the applications you build * A high degree of flexibility and adaptability: willing and able to deal with uncertainty and ambiguity in a rapidly evolving environment * Strong troubleshooting and diagnostic skills; ability to solve problems creatively and proactively * Prior knowledge of trading / capital markets is not required. Curiosity and a willingness to learn is. About Us IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989, we’ve been a stabilizing force in financial markets, providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and India, our talented quant researchers, engineers, traders, and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative, high-performance culture, and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies, and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.

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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; * Prior experience having worked in trading or related industries (HFT, MFT, exchanges, hedge funds etc) * 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; * 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. About Us IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989, we’ve been a stabilizing force in financial markets, providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and India, our talented quant researchers, engineers, traders, and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative, high-performance culture, and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies, and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.