About the company
IMC is a leading trading firm, known worldwide for our advanced, low-latency technology and world-class execution capabilities. Over the past 30 years, weāve been a stabilizing force in the financial markets ā 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.
Job Summary
Your Core Responsibilities:
šAs a Data Engineer in our energy trading team, you will build and operate the data backbone that enables real-time trading and advanced analytics. You will play a key role in ensuring that our traders, quants, and researchers have access to high-quality, reliable, and scalable data. Your responsibilities will include: šDesigning, building, and managing real-time and historical data pipelines for energy trading use cases šEnsuring data quality, availability, and reliability across trading platforms, exchanges, weather, and renewable production sources šDesigning and maintaining scalable, distributed data infrastructure šSupporting both trade enablement and advanced research/analytics for algorithmic trading šContributing to strong software engineering practices, including automated testing, CI/CD, and dev/prod environment management šWorking closely with traders, quants, and developers to define evolving data needs and enable new use cases šThis is a greenfield role: you will join a small team of developers led by an experienced tech lead. Over the next 12 months, the focus will be on scalable ingestion, trade data persistence, and research support.
Your Skills and Experience:
šSolid Python skills, engineering non-trivial applications (beyond ad-hoc scripting) šKnowledge of software engineering best practices (e.g. automated testing, CI/CD, dev/prod environments) šExperience with non-trivial data use cases; streaming data experience is a strong plus šSolid SQL skills šExposure to infrastructure, ideally deploying or maintaining applications on Kubernetes šFamiliarity with distributed compute frameworks (Spark, Dask, etc.), with understanding of scaling challenges
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