Quantitative Developer - Altas Technologies at IMC

Experienced
Trading
Amsterdam

At IMC, technology is at the core of everything we do. Our innovative in-house software drives millions of trading decisions daily, allowing us to outperform the competition through faster, more effective decision-making.

In 2023, IMC acquired Altas Technologies, a rapidly growing algorithmic trading firm with the ambition of creating tomorrow’s most technically advanced trading stack. By combining their highly advanced trading strategies with IMC’s execution and scaling capabilities, this move strengthens our position in the market and is an important step towards ensuring stability and long-term growth for the firm.

Your Core Responsibilities:

  • Build robust, fully automated, low-latency, high-throughput trading systems systems used to predict and trade cryptocurrency and equity markets
  • Design and build large-scale cutting-edge data analysis and computation infrastructure. This includes data processing engines that ingest large quantities of data in a time and memory-efficient manner.
  • Establish low latency exchange and market connectivity
  • Work together with researchers to tackle challenging problems of optimal execution: analyze tick data, estimate market impact, optimize execution algorithms and so forth

 Your Skills and Experience:

  • Highly experienced in Python. Experience with Rust is preferred.
  • Strong engineering instincts and a deep understanding of Python language fundamentals (OOP and functional programming)
  • Preferably a scientific mindset with experience in numerical programming with Python / Rust.
  • Knowledge of and experience with mechanics of trading exchanges, market microstructure, exchange/market connectivity, execution, WebSockets, APIs, and Linux.
  • Experience with asynchronous/concurrent/multi-threaded and shared memory programming.
  • Experienced in architecting significant scale container-style Microservice Architectures for trading systems, from design to execution, deployment and testing (CI/CD), and usage of message brokers like Redis.
  • Experience working in a public (cloud) ecosystem (i.e. Docker, Microsoft Azure)
  • Preferably experience in interacting with blockchains / Web 3.0 / L2s (operating nodes)
  • Serious about clean code, simple but well-architected systems, and continuous improvement
  • Strong sense of ownership taking full responsibility and accountability for your contributions
  • The habit of introspection and understanding what's helped you be successful in the past, combined with a growth mindset and willingness to improve by leveraging the latest technologies

About Us

IMC is a leading trading firm, known worldwide for our advanced, low-latency technology and world-class execution capabilities. Over the past 30 years, we’ve been a stabilizing force in the financial markets – providing the essential liquidity our counterparties depend on. Across offices in the US, Europe, and Asia Pacific, our talented employees are united by our entrepreneurial spirit, exceptional culture, and commitment to giving back. It's a strong foundation that allows us to grow and add new capabilities, year after year. From entering dynamic new markets, to developing a state-of-the-art research environment and diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to imagine what could be and work together to make it happen.

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