Desired Skills and Experience
- Provide performance ideas, solutions, and recommendations that are both smart and scalable to the business.
- Understand internal and external developments in technology, as well as competitor approaches that can help improve IMC performance.
- Contribute towards the development of our toolset used to measure and improve performance of our trading infrastructure.
- Build IMC’s knowledge base to ensure deep understanding of exchange infrastructure and protocols.
- Work closely with traders and other technology teams (locally and globally) to drive global thinking, information sharing, and sustainable, long-term solutions.
- One of the most fun aspects of the job is that we have a very quick feedback loop. We release early and often to get incremental benefits as they are developed
- We operate at the bleeding edge of technology. If something new can potentially bring an advantage we will actively invest in developing and utilizing the solution
- We really believe in sharing knowledge and technology between the different offices. Much of our technology stack is shared between all 3 regions, and we provide opportunities to travel between the regions both for personal growth and to assist where it has the biggest impact.
- To get the best results we encourage everybody to gain understanding of both the trading strategy and how exchanges work on a technological level.
- Working at IMC is also an opportunity to learn about financial markets. We know from experience that a lot of people really enjoy learning about a field beyond their immediate area of expertise, it’s one of the things that makes this job more interesting than others.
- We employ a broad range of people with varying backgrounds. What they have in common is their superior technical expertise, their extraordinary smarts and their collaborative approach. We will not accept less.
- Ability to clearly communicate complex ideas
- The ability to work without supervision; a true self starter
- Motivation and ability to conduct undirected research and to challenge ideas
- Ability to see opportunities and to make them happen
- Qualifications in Computer Science, Business Information Systems/Technology. Other degree qualifications will be considered if supported by strong IT components.
- Relevant working experience, either in a similar performance role or other technically demanding, low level technology engineering role.
- Expert level knowledge of Linux with a focus on operating system internals.
- Expert Level understanding of networked systems (TCP/IP, UDP, IP multicast).
- High level of competency with C, C++ and/or Java programming.
- Experience with tuning and monitoring distributed systems
- Expert level troubleshooting skills.
- Bash and Python/Perl fluency
- Strong automation skills with scripting languages
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