MC financial markets – Where Technology drives Trading

Trading nowadays happens in a highly competitive technological landscape; the best trading idea alone doesn’t cut it anymore. Instead, only the best trading ideas that are enabled via robust, scalable and fast technology win. 

Do you enjoy the process of problem solving, a process where you recognize areas of improvement and iterate and innovate to improve? Does your curiosity and desire to learn drive you?

TRADING SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AT IMC:

IMC is currently looking for a multi-talented and passionate Trading Engineer to play a critical role in maintaining and perfecting our tradinginfrastructure.  As a Trading Engineer you will be part of highly experienced team, facing the daily challenge of managing a critical, high volume data flow in a complex trading environment distributed over a high speed datainfrastructure.  In this role you will be exposed to many technical and trading challenges while ensuring high availability, stability and performance of the end-to-end environment. 

The skills necessary to excel could range from system administration, network administration, database administration, development, release management and performance engineering. This role provides daily challenges as no day is the same as the next.  In other words, this role, unlike any other at IMC, opens up possibilities to make considerable impact as part of a dedicated, dynamic team, both locally and globally.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Desired Skills and Experience

  • Provide continuity and stability to the production environment.
  • Provide quick response to production issues to help eliminate down time thereby ensuring high availability and performance of our trading platform.
  • Coordinate, prioritize and plan the changes to our trading software thereby ensuring smooth exchange migrations, quick time to market for new features and software.
  • Contribute towards improving the trading strategy as well as the trading infrastructure.
  • Translate trading requests into concrete technical requirements, work with various focus teams in our organizations towards generating innovative and scalable solutions and finally implement those solutions in order to continuously enhance our systems and processes.
  • Relevant education and relevant working experience
  • In-depth knowledge and experience with Linux operating system
  • Strong understanding of TCP/IP protocols
  • Experience with various ways to deploy java applications as well as good understanding of JVM
  • Excellent command of bash/perl/or python scripting
  • Experience with MySQL querying would be preferred