Gesloten ICT vacatures Haarlem

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. Your core tasks will include:

• Coding, developing, testing, deploying and maintaining applications and automations for Trading Teams and/or Risk Management, Mid-Office and Strategy Development 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.

• At least > 5 years of experience as a Software Engineer
• Strong programming skills in Java 11+. Experience in the latest versions of Java is highly desirable
• Familiarity with Python – preferred
• Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes
• Comfortable in Linux environments
• Experience gathering business requirements, communicating with key stakeholders and delivering solutions quickly
• The ability able 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.
• Eligibility for ESTA and US Visa Waiver Program (VWP) is required as occasional travel to IMC's Chicago office on relatively short notice may be required

Our tech stack includes an ever-evolving range of systems and technologies, and our engineers have the freedom to choose the best solution for the problem at hand. If a new technology has the potential to add value, we’ll actively invest in exploring, adopting and developing it.

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.