Python Software Engineer
Sydney, AustraliaFull-TimeMid-levelSoftware Engineering
Intro
- 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 Sydney based Engineering teams work on a wide variety of applications, tools and functionalities, including trading algorithm implementations, option pricing, calculating volatility, simulation frameworks, market risk applications, trade reconciliation applications and data analysis & visualization tools for traders. We frequently need to develop not just the business applications themselves, but also the tools that keep our development process at the cutting edge. We are currently looking to expand our software engineering teams across our Strategy, Research tooling and Backbone teams.
Your Core Responsibilities:
- Develop, test, deploy, and maintain high-performance Python applications.
- Work closely with traders, researchers, quants, and fellow engineers to build scalable and reliable software solutions.
- Take ownership of end-to-end development, from requirements gathering to production deployment.
- Implement automation and optimization projects to enhance trading and research workflows.
- Apply advanced automated testing practices and leverage daily deployments to achieve agile and incremental benefits.
- Balance trade-offs between latency, throughput, simplicity, scalability, and maintainability in a complex technology landscape.
Your Skills and Experience:
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong focus on Python.
- Experience working with numerical computing and data processing frameworks such as Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, Celery, Dask, or Spark.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to proactively tackle technical challenges.
- Experience with automated testing and CI/CD pipelines.
- Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and Linux environments.
- Exposure to distributed computing and modern cloud-based data processing technologies.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work with cross-functional teams including traders, researchers, and other engineers.
- Prior knowledge of financial markets or trading is not required, but curiosity and a willingness to learn are essential.
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.
