
Python Developer
at IMC Trading
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- Compensation
- $175,000 – $200,000 USD
- City
- Not specified
- Country
- United States
Currency: $ (USD)
The Python Developer will build and maintain complex systems that support trading strategies, working on data, processing, optimization, and execution components. The role involves collaborating with traders, quant researchers, and engineers to develop scalable systems and process large data sets in a fast-paced trading environment.
Having the best technology drives our business. As a Python Developer, you will help build and maintain the systems that drive our trading strategies. You’ll work on a platform composed of multiple interconnected components — spanning data, processing, optimization, and execution.
Core Responsibilities
- Build, maintain, and scale systems with multiple components that interact across data, processing, optimization, and execution
- Develop and grow a new system from scratch together with a new team
- Process and maintain large data sets, including ETL pipelines for data ingestion and transformation
- Collaborate closely with Traders, Quant Researchers, and Engineers across global teams
- Continuously learn and apply new technologies in a fast-paced trading environment
Skills and Experience
- 1–3 years of experience in trading environments, with exposure to either lower- or higher-latency systems
- Familiarity with large-scale data processing and maintaining ETL/data pipelines
- Strong proficiency in Python; some experience with object-oriented programming (C++ a plus)
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Proven ability to handle large datasets, architect and optimize data pipelines, and present data effectively
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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.
