At IMC, our Deployment Tools team is a truly global team, building and maintaining the tools that empowers our development teams and trading engineers worldwide. We focus on performance, scalability, and reliability, enabling colleagues to deliver faster and smarter. You'll join a small but growing presence in Amsterdam, working closely with teammates across regions to expand our footprint and strengthen our technical capabilities.
Your Core Responsibilities
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.
Your Core Responsibilities
- Develop, test, deploy, and maintain high-performance, globally distributed Go applications.
- Work closely with stakeholders and teammates across multiple offices to build scalable and reliable software solutions.
- Take ownership of the end-to-end service lifecycle, from requirements gathering and implementation to deployment, operation, and continuous improvement.
- Contribute to operating and supporting the team's systems during Amsterdam business hours.
- Implement features and optimizations that improve user experience and team workflows.
- Use automated testing and daily deployments to deliver high-quality features quickly and iteratively.
- Balance trade-offs between latency, throughput, simplicity, scalability, reliability, and maintainability in a complex technology landscape.
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience working with Python, Java or Go
- Familiarity with Go is a strong advantage. Willingness to learn and work with Go is essential.
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to proactively tackle technical challenges.
- Experience with automated testing and CI/CD pipelines.
- Exposure to distributed computing and modern cloud-native software design.
- Strong communication skills and proven ability to work cross-functionally with teams across regions.
- Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, and Linux environments is beneficial.
- Curiosity about financial markets and a willingness to learn (prior experience not required).
- Adaptable, collaborative, and self-motivated, with a drive for ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
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.
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