Data Engineer - Digital Assets

IMC

IMC has a strong presence in traditional Finance and has been expanding into Crypto over the last years. Through its overseas affiliates, IMC provides liquidity and trades on many cryptocurrency exchanges and DeFi protocols. You can expect a dynamic, fast-paced environment that delivers a steady stream of challenges and opportunities, with one of the most exciting aspects of the job being our quick feedback loop in the research, development and deployment of strategies. As a Python Software Engineer, you will work closely with our trading and engineering teams on a variety of applications, tools and automation projects. You’ll be placed in an environment consisting primarily of a large Python analysis ecosystem drawing data from various sources including our own trading systems. You’ll build analysis & visualisation tools at the heart of the business logic, in close collaboration with the traders who use them. Your work involves both interpreting ideas, coming up with your own, and efficiently implementing these into tools that are reliable, scalable and performant. Together with traders, researchers and engineers, you deliver challenging projects, while taking ownership for end-to-end product development – from requirements gathering to production. You’ll write reliable and scalable 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 throughput, simplicity, scalability and maintainability.   Your Core Responsibilities:  * Collaborate closely with researchers, and engineers to deliver challenging projects. * Build, maintain, and enhance research frameworks and data pipelines that enable trading and quantitative research. * Curate, transform, and present data in clear, accessible formats for traders and researchers. * Take ownership of end-to-end product development, from requirements gathering to production deployment * Navigate a complex landscape of diverse systems and technologies, making informed trade-offs between throughput, simplicity, scalability, and maintainability   Your Skills and Experience: * Master’s or Ph.D. in Mathematics, Physics, Statistics, Computer Science, Econometrics, or a related discipline. * 2–3 years of professional Python development experience * solid computer science knowledge, has experience or capability to quickly adapt to additional languages such as Java, Scala, C++, Go, etc. * Hands-on experience with statistical analysis, numerical programming, data engineering, or machine learning in Python (Polars, Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, TensorFlow). * Proven ability to handle large datasets, architect and optimize data pipelines, and present data effectively. * Experience with orchestration and containerization tools like Kubernetes and Docker is a plus. * Solid grounding in calculus, probability, statistics, and optimization; familiarity with machine-learning techniques is beneficial.   Location and Office Culture: * IMC office in Zug, Switzerland * Note that this is an onsite role, with some but limited flexibility for working from home * You can expect a dynamic, fast-paced environment that delivers a steady stream of challenges and opportunities * One of the most exciting aspects of the job is our quick feedback loop in the research, development and deployment of strategies * We give people lots of responsibility and the support they need to make an impact from day one * We promise you a flat structure and an open, collaborative culture that stimulates the sharing of ideas, knowledge and technology between our teams and offices 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.

IMC

IMC has a strong presence in traditional Finance and has been expanding into Crypto and DeFi over the last years. Through its overseas affiliates, IMC provides liquidity and trades on many cryptocurrency exchanges and DeFi protocols. As a C++ Software Engineer, you‘ll be joining and shaping the future of our core engineering team. You will design, code, test, and optimize our proprietary, low-latency trading system. The right candidate for this role will be comfortable working autonomously, making decisions, and working in a fast-paced, flat team structure. Your Core Responsibilities: * Collaborate on developing our highly competitive, ultra-low-latency trading platform consisting of market data delivery and order submission subsystems * Design and implement state-of-the-art, industry-leading trade execution and connectivity solutions * You will be part of our algorithmic trading strategies team that is responsible for all automated trading algorithms so that your experience and knowledge will have direct impact on our production * Improve the system performance by optimizing network access, hardware utilization, and programming execution * Stay on top of updates to exchange protocols Your Skills and Experience:  * You have a Master’s or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics or a related field * You have excellent programming skills using C++ in a Linux (or Unix-like) environment * You possess the ability and desire to write simple, well-structured and clean code that is easy to maintain * You have in-depth knowledge of low-level network and system programming and have ideally experience in developing low-latency systems * You have a solid grasp of computer science, algorithms, memory-, and concurrency models, CPU-architecture, operating systems, networks, and performance optimization * Experience in statistics, large-scale data processing systems, machine learning and/or grid-based computing is a big plus * No finance background is necessary or expected Location and Office Culture * IMC office in Zug, Switzerland * Note that this is an onsite role, with some but limited flexibility for working from home * You can expect a dynamic, fast-paced environment that delivers a steady stream of challenges and opportunities * One of the most exciting aspects of the job is our quick feedback loop in the research, development and deployment of strategies * We give people lots of responsibility and the support they need to make an impact from day one * We promise you a flat structure and an open, collaborative culture that stimulates the sharing of ideas, knowledge and technology between our teams and offices 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.

IMC

IMC has a strong presence in traditional Finance and has been expanding into crypto and DeFi over the last years. Through its overseas affiliates, IMC provides liquidity and trades on many cryptocurrency exchanges and DeFi protocols. IMC Zug is currently looking to expand its DeFi team, which builds the algorithms that support IMC's trading activities The DeFi team is small and highly flexible. We need the flexibility to respond to the rapidly changing DeFi landscape. As a member of the DeFi team, you will get the opportunity to work on many different projects and shape your role to your talents. Your work will vary from improving existing trading strategies and algorithms to working on completely new solutions from scratch. All, while closely collaborating with team members. Your Core Responsibilities:  * Collaborate on developing our highly competitive trading algorithm and platform * Design and implement state-of-the-art, industry-leading trade execution and connectivity solutions * Research and analysis of Defi protocols using on chain data and trading strategies * Stay on top of updates to Defi protocols Your Skills and Experience:  * Hard skill requirements: * Proficiency in applied mathematics, statistics, numerical modeling * Knowledge of cryptocurrency * Proficiency in one more blockchain-related programming languages such as golang, rust, solidity, move etc. * Comfortable in a Linux R&D environment, incl. git and related tools * Ability to research independently * Proficiency in English * Nice to haves * Experience in blockchain analytics, DeFi protocols, MEV * In-depth knowledge of concrete blockchains on conceptual and/or programming level * Hands-on programming experience in a quantitative trading environment * Deep understanding of the EVM, and/or the technical underpinnings of other blockchain ecosystems * Smart contract design and development * Experience with cryptography libraries, digital signature, hash algorithms Location and Office Culture * IMC office in Zug, Switzerland * Note that this is an onsite role, with some but limited flexibility for working from home * You can expect a dynamic, fast-paced environment that delivers a steady stream of challenges and opportunities * One of the most exciting aspects of the job is our quick feedback loop in the research, development and deployment of strategies * We give people lots of responsibility and the support they need to make an impact from day one * We promise you a flat structure and an open, collaborative culture that stimulates the sharing of ideas, knowledge and technology between our teams and offices 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.