Python Software Engineer

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Python Software Engineer

Posted Yesterday
2 Locations
Hybrid
Junior
Fintech • Machine Learning • Software • Financial Services
IMC is a proprietary trading firm powered by research and technology.
The Role
Implement software features for trading systems debug issues maintain code quality mentor junior developers and collaborate with teams. Requires a Bachelor's in a related field and one year of experience.
Summary Generated by Built In
Polar Operations LLC (dba IMC Markets) has multiple openings for Python Software Engineer (REQ#4461661101) in Chicago IL and Brooklyn NY.
Your Core Responsibilities
  • Implement software features and components for IMC's trading systems (25%).
  • Design software solutions independently and make architectural decisions (10%).
  • Debug and fix software issues in trading systems (5%).
  • Identify complex multi-component issues perform root cause analysis and implement preventative solutions (5%).
  • Ensure code quality and system reliability through comprehensive automated testing (10%).
  • Contribute to the automated testing framework own critical trading system components and ensure reliability performance and scalability across regions (5%).
  • Participate in code reviews (10%).
  • Monitor system performance and trading operations (5%).
  • Collaborate with traders and other teams to understand requirements and deliver solutions (10%).
  • Participate in planning estimate complexity of tasks and help balance technical debt with feature development (5%).
  • Mentor and guide junior developers and interns helping them understand IMC's systems and development practices (10%).

Partial telecommuting permitted. Multiple positions available. Requisition #: 4461661101
Your Skills and Experience
This position requires a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer science Computer Engineering or a similarly quantitative and technical field and one (1) year of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.
Must have at least one (1) year of experience in each of the following skill(s):
  • Applying analytical and engineering techniques to solve complex problems programmatically;
  • Programming with Python;
  • Developing and implementing algorithms and data structures;
  • Software development lifecycle and best practices;
  • Designing and developing software applications in a collaborative cross-functional environment;
  • Experience with DevOps databases big data or frontend frameworks;
  • Experience with Docker Kubernetes and Linux environments;
  • Experience working with financial data;
  • Foundational knowledge of quantitative trading concepts and equity/index options;
  • Exposure to web/API frameworks such as FastAPI and React;
  • Experience with automated testing and CI/CD pipelines;
  • Experience collaborating with trading desks and developing software for use in a quantitative trading environment;
  • Experience with the following tools: Team City JIRA ticket management Gerrit code review tool GitLab uv Gitlab CI py-spy memray and Python Packaging; and
  • Experience with the following libraries: Pandas Polars NumPy Tensorflow Scikit scikit-learn cvxpy and Pytest.

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1954 Employees
Year Founded: 1989

What We Do

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.

Why Work With Us

At IMC the best ideas win regardless of hierarchy. Graduates receive mentorship and make an impact from day one while experienced hires get to shape their own path in a flexible high-performance environment. We remove barriers so everyone can grow and help drive one of the world’s leading liquidity providers.

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