At a Glance
- Tasks: Develop high-performance C++ software for trading and automation in a fast-paced environment.
- Company: IMC, a global trading firm with a collaborative and innovative culture.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible work options, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Work on exciting projects with a diverse team and enjoy excellent career advancement.
- Why this job: Join a cutting-edge team and make impactful decisions in the financial markets.
- Qualifications: Strong C++ programming skills and a passion for learning in a dynamic setting.
The predicted salary is between 135000 - 165000 $ per year.
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 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
- Strong programming skills in C++.
- Experience in latest versions of C++ highly desirable.
- 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.
- Familiarity with Python – preferred.
- Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes.
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.
C++ Software Engineer employer: IMC Trading
IMC is an exceptional employer for those looking to make a significant impact in the technology recruitment space. With a strong focus on innovation and collaboration, employees benefit from a dynamic work culture that encourages professional growth and the opportunity to partner with industry leaders. Located in Australia and New Zealand, IMC offers a unique chance to shape the future of technology recruitment while enjoying dedicated support and resources to excel in your role.
