Senior Equity Options Volatility Trader

IMC

IMC Trading is seeking a Senior Quantitative Researcher to join the options quant team. You will join the team as a senior member with the expectation of leading projects and mentoring juniors. Skills and responsibilities listed below. Your Core Responsibilities: * Collaborate with the trading and quantitative research team to evaluate existing algorithms * Combine knowledge of systems, mathematical techniques and trading to identify the best places to improve our trading system * Rapidly research, test, and prototype new algorithmic ideas, preferably with Python. * See through the high-quality implementation of ideas to full-scale production trading. * Mentor graduate quantitative researchers Your Skills and Experience: * Ms or PhD in a highly quantitative field * At least 5 years in financial services or a quantitative environment * Experience in project or people management * Strong programming skills, Python, Java or C++ preferred * Proven success in quantitative modelling and algorithm development * You have experience with options pricing   #LI-DNP The Base Salary range for the role is included below. Base salary is only one component of total compensation; all full-time, permanent positions are eligible for a discretionary bonus and benefits, including paid leave and insurance. Please visit Benefits - US | IMC Trading for more comprehensive information. Salary Range $250,000—$300,000 USD 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

About the role IMC’s Macro Analyst team provides traders with market-moving insights and actionable trading ideas across global macro and volatility markets. As a Senior Macro Analyst, you will be based in Amsterdam and take ownership of generating insights and trading ideas across European equity index volatility and related markets. Working closely with traders and the Lead Macro Analyst, you will develop event-driven scenarios, identify opportunities around global macro themes, and help shape IMC’s response to fast-moving economic, political, and market developments. You will translate complex market information into clear trading implications, contribute to macro-driven strategies across options and volatility products, and play a key role in ensuring IMC remains ahead of market narratives. This is a highly collaborative role for someone who combines strong macro judgment, deep market understanding, and the ability to communicate clearly and decisively under time pressure. Your Core Responsibilities * Generate actionable trading ideas and market analysis across European equity index volatility, options, spreads, futures, and related financial instruments; * Develop and maintain scenario analyses around key market-moving events, including economic data releases, central bank meetings, national budgets, elections, geopolitical developments, and unexpected macro shocks; * Monitor global and European macro themes, identifying how changes in policy, politics, growth, inflation, rates, FX, and risk sentiment may affect equity index volatility and related markets; * Provide traders with timely, clear, and actionable updates on what is driving markets during European trading hours and relevant out-of-hours futures sessions; * React quickly to breaking news and unexpected market events, assessing potential outcomes, market impact, and trading opportunities in real time; * Work closely with traders to evaluate risk/reward, refine trading hypotheses, and contribute to the development of macro-driven options and volatility strategies; * Contribute to discussions around macro-driven positions, market themes, PnL drivers, and evolving risks across European and global markets; * Take ownership of specific research areas, recurring event playbooks, analytical frameworks, or market coverage themes; * Help ensure strong operational coverage of key events, market sessions, and trader needs through disciplined preparation, responsiveness, and high-quality communication; * Collaborate with other IMC analyst teams across Amsterdam, Chicago, Sydney, and Mumbai to share insights, compare market views, and strengthen global coverage; * Support the development of more junior analysts by sharing market knowledge, improving team processes, and helping raise the overall quality of the team’s output; * Continuously improve the team’s analytical tools, event preparation, communication formats, and trading idea generation process. Your Skills and Experience * 4–6+ years of experience in a trading, macro research, volatility, options, or strategy-focused role, ideally at a high-frequency trading firm, investment bank, hedge fund, asset manager, or market-making environment; * Strong understanding of European financial markets and the macroeconomic, political, and geopolitical factors that influence equity indices, volatility, rates, FX, and broader risk sentiment; * Experience analyzing equity index products, options, volatility, futures, spreads, or related financial instruments; * Proven ability to translate macro events, political developments, and market headlines into practical trading implications; * Strong scenario analysis skills, with the ability to assess probabilities, market impact, positioning, and potential second-order effects; * Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage traders clearly, succinctly, and confidently in fast-moving market conditions; * Sound market judgment and the ability to form independent views while incorporating feedback from traders and other analysts; * Calm, focused, and decisive when markets are moving quickly or information is incomplete; * Collaborative mindset, with the ability to work effectively with traders, analysts, and global teams; * High level of ownership, curiosity, and intellectual drive, with a strong interest in markets, policy, politics, and global events; * Entrepreneurial approach, with a desire to improve processes, develop new analytical frameworks, and contribute ideas that can directly impact trading outcomes. 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.

Chattermill

SENIOR BACKEND ENGINEER 🌍 UK / Europe (Remote or Hybrid, it’s up to you!) 💰 Dependent on experience 📈 Be part of our success with the opportunity to join our equity scheme   🦸‍♀️ The Role 🦸‍♀️ Our mission is to help large successful brands like Uber, Amazon, Wise, HelloFresh (and more!) put their customers at the centre of everything they do. Using best-in-class tech in a fast-evolving AI space, our Customer Experience Intelligence platform continuously analyses explicit and implicit feedback to help our clients identify what to do next. We're now looking for a talented Senior Backend Engineer to join the team!   👉 What you'll be doing: You’ll be designing, building and scaling the backend services and APIs that power Chattermill’s core analytics platform. Owning and driving the delivery of high-impact engineering workstreams and integrating AI capabilities into the product experience. This means you will: * Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs that power Chattermill’s core analytics platform. * Architect reliable, maintainable distributed systems and contribute to the evolution of backend service design and infrastructure. * Own end-to-end delivery of backend engineering workstreams, from technical scoping and architecture through to implementation, testing, observability, and production support. * Integrate language models, agentic frameworks, and AI pipelines into core product and backend services. * Drive performance, reliability, and observability across high-throughput distributed data systems, including logging, tracing, alerting, and incident response. * Work with cloud infrastructure and distributed systems in GCP (preferred) or AWS environments. * Collaborate closely with Product to define scope, shape technical solutions, and explore new platform capabilities and features. * Contribute to engineering excellence through code reviews, architectural discussions, and continuous improvement of development standards across the team.   🧰 What you’ll need: *  Strong professional experience operating as a senior backend engineer within high-ownership product engineering teams. * Strong proficiency in at least one modern backend language such as Python, Ruby, or Go, with a focus on scalable system design and architectural thinking. * Solid understanding of distributed systems, RESTful APIs, and event-driven architectures. * Experience optimising database performance at scale, including query tuning, indexing, and partitioning across large production datasets. * Cloud platform experience, ideally within GCP environments, although AWS experience is also valued. * Hands-on experience with observability tooling and production operations, including logging, tracing, alerting, and incident response. * Proven ability to independently deliver backend features and technical projects in fast-paced product environments. ➕It would be a bonus if you: * Experience integrating LLMs, prompt engineering techniques, or agentic frameworks such as Anthropic, OpenAI, or MCP. * Familiarity with AI-assisted development workflows and tools such as Cursor, Copilot, or Claude Code. * Experience working with ClickHouse, BigQuery, or other analytical databases supporting large-scale analytical workloads. * Experience with customer feedback analytics, NLP, or text analytics platforms. * Familiarity with Elasticsearch or large-scale search infrastructure. * Experience building asynchronous or event-driven systems using technologies such as PubSub, Kafka, or equivalent. * Contributions to open-source projects, conference speaking, or public technical writing. 🔎 Our Hiring Process 1. Let’s introduce ourselves – you’ll complete an introductory asynchronous interview - we’d love to learn more about you, your ambitions, and what you’re looking for in your next step. 2. Show us how your work and reason - You’ll meet with a member of our engineering team to complete a Live pseudo-code exercise. 3. Get to know your would-be team – You'll meet people you'll be working closely with from our Engineering team, and complete a System design and architecture-based interview. 4. Get to know your would-be manager – you’ll have a call with Ugo Anomelechi, our VP of Engineering, to learn more about the role and show off your experience. 5. How our values and your career goals align – you’ll have a call with our cofounder to learn more about life at Chattermill and ensure we’re the right place for your next stage of growth. Our Perks 🤸🏽‍♂️ Flexibility & Work Setup * Flexible working in a choice-first environment - we trust the way you want to work! * Work-from-home allowance to set up your ideal workspace 🌴 Time Off * 25 days holiday + local bank holidays, plus an extra day for each year of service * Your birthday off 🌱 Growth & Ownership * Annual learning & development budget to support your growth (increasing over time) * Equity options — share in the company’s success 💚 Health & Wellbeing * Monthly health & wellbeing budget, increasing with length of service * Optional private healthcare plan * Life assurance & income protection (location dependent) * Employee Assistance Programme (location dependent) for extra support when you need it * Enhanced family leave (location dependent), plus fertility and neonatal leave 🌆 Office Perks * If you’re in London, a dog-friendly office with great classes, events, and a rooftop terrace 💖 Our Values  * We are obsessed with experience – We take our mission to rid the world of bad Customer Experience seriously, and we practice what we preach. * We believe in the power of trust – Whether it's with each other, our customers, partners, or other stakeholders, we always communicate with openness and trust. * We act as responsible owners – Whether it's about the company, a team, a project, or a task, having the freedom to make decisions in our area of responsibility is a crucial driver for us. * We share a passion for growth & progress – On every level, we’re motivated by taking on new challenges – even if they seem out of reach. We recognise that we are learning machines and we always seek to action feedback and improve collectively. * We set our ambitions high but stay humble – We've come together to build a product and a category that’s never been seen before. While we're an ambitious bunch with lofty goals, we don't approach this goal carelessly. * We believe the right team is the key to success – At Chattermill we’ve learned that all our important achievements have been the result of the right people collaborating together – that’s why we need you to apply today! 🌈 Diversity & Inclusion 🌈 We want to enable exceptional experiences for everyone, and to achieve this we need everyone’s voice in our team.  We are on a mission to bring more diversity into the business and to give everyone (from all backgrounds and abilities) a chance to join us, even if they may not fit all of the requirements set out in this job spec. We realise that some may be hesitant to apply for a role when they don’t meet 100% of the listed requirements – we believe in potential and will happily consider all applications based on the skills and experience you have, we’d love to be part of your growth and we encourage you to apply!      #seniorbackendengineer #backenddeveloper #distributedsystems #cloudengineering #Python #GoLang #AIEngineering #LLM #Kafka #SaaS #AI #GCP #AWS #apidevelopment #engineering #engineer #developer #tech