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# Python Software Engineer at IMC

- **Company:** IMC
- **Location:** Amsterdam, Netherlands
- **Posted:** 2025-07-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/imc/jobs/4630983101

## Job description

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. Our various Python Development teams create scalable business-critical applications, tools and automated tasks to equip IMC’s Amsterdam, London, Zug and Mumbai trading and business support teams.

## Your Core Responsibilities

IMC uses a wide variety of technologies. Python is widely used across our tech stack, notably to make it more accessible to our traders, researchers and analysts. As a Python Software Engineer at IMC Amsterdam, you will take part in the development of high-performance trading systems, analytical tools, signals generation, backtesting frameworks, trade management UIs or regulatory surveillance & risk monitoring. Therefore your role will involve collaborating directly and closely with the business and other tech teams, from initially gathering requirements to short iteration cycles to refine the implementation, to integrate user feedback, to voice and implement your improvements and ideas.

All the software you’ll be building is for internal use only, there are no external clients/users and therefore no non-sense requests: the users of your work sit a few meters from you and you have control over the whole development cycle. Curiosity and interest into the trading and financial markets is a key success factor in this role, as you will be working directly on the business logic, in an environment where understanding the business context is primordial.

At IMC we believe in giving a lot of responsibilities quickly, you’ll be working on your goals with a high degree of independence, yet supported by a solid network of mentors, teammates and trading team highly motivated to make sure you are successful and share their passion for trading and technology. In this role, you might end up working on are a wide range of tasks - for example:

- Adding a new signal a trader came up with to our framework.
- Supporting a trading desk in building the data analytics and visualisation tools they need.
- Troubleshooting, debugging or deep diving into performance analysis.
- Teaching others how to use our tech in their own scripts.
- Building and distributing internal python libraries.
- Starting whole new full-stack projects from scratch.

## Your Skills and Experience

- We care about 4+ years of working experience as a Software Engineer.
- Deep technical knowledge of Python, you understand its internal workings and know its strength and limitation. We use a range of Python libraries and frameworks (such as FastAPI (AsyncIO), APScheduler, Pandas, Polars, RQ, Pytest, Tensorflow, scipy, xgboost, scikit-learn, numpy, numba, celery).
- Experience with DevOps, databases, big data or frontend frameworks is a plus. (Some examples of tools we frequently work with: Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, Gitlab CI, TypeScript, React, Redis, PostgreSQL, Mongo, Dremio, Apache Iceberg, HDFS, Kafka, Apache Arrow/Parquet).
- A critical mindset and the ability to challenge ideas and solutions, to not take things for granted, validate assumptions and dig into the details to find and cover all corner cases. You’re not afraid to ask questions and to speak up.
- Experience working with financial data is a must, ideally in the financial services industry. The nature of this role requires both affinity and experience to this type of data.

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.

## About Us

IMC is a research-driven trading firm where quantitative modeling, machine learning, and engineering shape how modern markets are traded. A stabilizing force in markets since 1989, we provide liquidity across trading venues, delivering the best outcome in value and risk management to investors. Using our own technology and capital, we build proprietary systems and algorithms that operate across global markets. Our researchers, traders, and engineers work as a collective, combining rapid experimentation, advanced infrastructure, and real-time feedback to turn insight into execution and execution into advantage.

## About IMC

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: IMC is a global trading firm that uses cutting-edge technology, quantitative research, and advanced algorithms to provide liquidity across major asset classes and trading venues worldwide.
- **Entity Type**: Private (bootstrapped)
- **Headquarters**: Amsterdam, Netherlands (global headquarters); major offices in Chicago, Sydney, Mumbai, and other cities.
- **Founded**: 1989
- **Founders**: Two traders (names not publicly disclosed) who met on the floor of the Amsterdam Equity Options Exchange.

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Financial Services, Proprietary Trading, Market Making, Financial Technology
- **Target customers**: Institutional clients, exchanges, ETF issuers, buy-side firms, and other market participants. **B2B** focus.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To be the world’s leading trading firm, supporting fair and transparent markets by providing significant liquidity and competitive pricing. [imc.com](https://www.imc.com/eu/who-we-are)

## Products & Services
- **ETF Market Making**: Acts as a Lead Market Maker (LMM) in more than 150 US exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
- **Options Wholesaling**: A top-3 liquidity provider by volume traded in listed options globally, with connectivity to all OCC venues.
- **Institutional Sales**: Provides off-screen trading for buy-side firms.
- **Crypto Solutions**: Offers global coverage of crypto products including spot, perps, futures, and options, both on- and off-chain.
- **Multi-Asset Class Trading**: Develops innovative technologies and algorithms to trade in all major asset classes on more than 120 venues globally.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company).
- **Key Metric**: Over 2,070 employees across 10 global offices as of 2025/2026. [imc.com](https://www.imc.com/eu/who-we-are)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Privately held; no external investors disclosed. Key partners include major global exchanges and clearing houses (e.g., OCC).
- **Growth Signals**:
    - Employee count grew from +1,900 to +2,070 in recent years.
    - Operates 9,000+ servers across 9 countries and processes petabytes of data daily.
    - Expanding into crypto and new asset classes.
    - Committed to being Net Zero by 2040.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Technology & Infrastructure**: A world-class technology backbone with 9,000+ servers, petabytes of data processing, and early adoption of AI/ML.
- **Longevity & Experience**: 36+ years of trading history and deep expertise across multiple asset classes.
- **Global Scale**: 24/7 liquidity provision across 120+ trading venues in the US, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and India.
- **Talent Density**: A flat, non-hierarchical culture that attracts top quant researchers, engineers, and traders from 70+ nationalities.
- **Culture of Ownership**: Employees are given significant responsibility early on, with a focus on collaboration and cross-functional teamwork.

## Strategic Focus
- **Quantitative Research & Tech**: Continually investing in quant research, AI, machine learning, and large-scale computing to generate alpha.
- **Global Expansion**: Expanding across new markets and asset classes, including crypto.
- **Sustainability**: Committed to being Net Zero by 2040 and making a positive impact through the IMC Foundations, focusing on education.
- **Talent Development**: Investing heavily in graduate and intern training programs (Graduate Traineeship, Launchpad) to build the next generation of talent.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: High-performance, collaborative, and non-hierarchical. 87% of employees say "IMC is a great place to work" (+4% vs global top-10%). [imc.com](https://www.imc.com/us/who-we-are/our-culture-values)
- **Work Environment**: Office-based (no remote policy indicated). Offers free catered breakfast and lunch, snacks, drinks, and Friday socials. Regular team events including an annual weekend trip.
- **Compensation & Benefits**: Competitive compensation with subsidized gym memberships, ergonomic desks, and health/well-being programs.
- **Learning & Development**: Extensive internal and external training programs. Graduates undergo a multi-week Graduate Traineeship (Trading School, Development School, FPGA School).
- **Diversity**: Employees represent 70+ nationalities, with a strong commitment to D&I.
- **Giving Back**: A share of profits is donated to non-profits, with a focus on education. Employees get volunteer time, donation matching, and grants.

## Sources
1. [IMC Homepage](https://www.imc.com/us/)
2. [IMC Careers Page](https://www.imc.com/us/careers)
3. [IMC Who We Are](https://www.imc.com/eu/who-we-are)
4. [IMC Culture & Values](https://www.imc.com/us/who-we-are/our-culture-values)
5. [IMC Recruitment Process](https://www.imc.com/us/careers/recruitment-process)

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