Software Engineer - Data

Polar Operations LLC (dba IMC Markets) has multiple openings for Software Engineer- Data (REQ#4461663101) in Chicago, IL and Brooklyn, NY.

Your Core Responsibilities

• Implement software features and components for IMC's trading systems (25%).
• Design software solutions independently and make architectural decisions (10%).
• Debug and fix software issues in trading systems (5%).
• Identify complex multi-component issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventative solutions (5%).
• Ensure code quality and system reliability through comprehensive automated testing (10%).
• Contribute to the automated testing framework, own critical trading system components and ensure reliability, performance, and scalability across regions (5%).
• Participate in code reviews (10%).
• Monitor system performance and trading operations (5%).
• Collaborate with traders and other teams to understand requirements and deliver solutions (10%).
• Participate in planning, estimate complexity of tasks, and help balance technical debt with feature development (5%).
• Participate in planning, estimate complexity of tasks, and help balance technical debt with feature development (5%).
• Mentor and guide junior developers and interns, helping them understand IMC's systems and development practices (10%).

Partial telecommuting permitted. Multiple positions available Requisition Number: 4461663101

Your Skills and Experience

This position requires a Bachelor's degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer science, Computer Engineering, or a similarly quantitative and technical field and one (1) year of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.

• Must have at least one (1) year of experience in each of the following skill(s):
• Applying analytical and engineering techniques to solve complex problems programmatically;
• Programming with Java, C/C++, or Python;
• Developing and implementing algorithms and data structures;
• Software development lifecycle and best practices;
• Designing and developing software applications in a collaborative, cross-functional environment;
• Experience building Kafka streaming applications and maintaining Kafka clusters;
• Experience building applications/pipelines with Big Data backends (such as S3, HDFS, Databricks, or Iceberg);
• Experience with Apache Spark or Apache Flink; (9) Experience with common data-science toolkits;
• Experience with Kubernetes and Docker;
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus/Grafana, Alert Manager, Alerta and OpsGenie; and
• Unix scripting experience (such as bash or python).

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