Trading Analytics Engineer

Experienced

Technology

Chicago

Trading Analytics Engineer

IMC is looking for a Trading Analytics Engineer to join our established Data Analytics team that supports analysis workflows across several different trading desks. In this role, you will create critical tools and systems for analysis and help traders use existing tools to fit various use cases. Ideal candidates will be comfortable extracting detailed specifications from high level requirements and managing priorities that can shift rapidly.

Your Core Responsibilities:

Work closely with traders to prototype and develop tools and libraries to support new analysis techniques
Working directly with front office teams to improve their analysis and optimize workflows
Translate financial markets-specific requirements into technical specifications
Applying software skills to analysis problems in the trading domain
Optimizing data access to improve iteration time for new ideas and working with tools like SQL, Polars/Python and Spark to ensure that data is accessed in the most efficient way possible
Developing broad knowledge of analysis tools at IMC and how they can best be applied to various problems, in order to advise quantitative researchers and traders

Your Skills & Experience:

3+ years of engineering experience in financial markets; previous experience working in a prop trading environment is a plus
Experience interfacing with front-office traders, analysts, or quantitative researchers
Strong knowledge of Python language fundamentals; ability to write both OO and functional style code
Hands-on experience with the JupyterHub/JupyterLab environment as an advanced user; previous experience supporting it across multiple users preferred
Experience with major python analysis libraries such as pandas, polars, numpy, scipy, scikit-learn is highly desirable, especially in relation to optimization of performance on large data analytics
Experience with distributed analysis or query engines like Spark, Trino, Dremio and Dask
Experience working with data lake technologies like Databricks, Snowflake, Iceberg and Parquet
Experience using LLM tools for productivity, including analysis and code generation

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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.

The Base Salary range for the role is included below. Base salary is only one component of total compensation; all full-time, permanent positions are eligible for a discretionary bonus and benefits, including paid leave and insurance. Please visit Benefits - US | IMC Trading for more comprehensive information.