Developer Productivity Engineer

At IMC, technology is the driving force behind everything we do. Our in-house developed software executes millions of trading decisions each day, enabling us to outperform the competition by making smarter and faster choices.

We're looking for an experienced software developer, with strong communication skills to join our productivity team. The productivity team exists to amplify the effectiveness of trading, research, and engineering teams. Instead of directly building trading strategies, they provide tools, infrastructure, and processes that reduce friction and accelerate delivery. The role requires building robust solutions and solving challenges up and down the tech stack. This team owns the remote development environment used by hundreds of developers and continually tackles bottlenecks in build processes, whether they are impactful one-line fixes or sweeping architectural shifts. The team supports codebases in a variety of languages, including Python, C++, and Java, to improve the daily productivity of hundreds of developers across the globe.

Your Core Responsibilities:

• Scale and advance IMC's trading systems builds and development tooling to support an excellent work environment for developers


• Ensure reliable multi-tenant development environment operations supporting hundreds of concurrent users across global regions


• Troubleshoot potential issues with build infrastructure and implementing improvements


• Design and build infrastructure supporting the development, build, test, and release processes


• Drive adoption of best practices in code health, development productivity, and maintainability

Your Skills and Experience:

• 5+ years of software development experience in Python, Java, and/or C++ required


• Experience with Kubernetes, containerization, and cluster management


• Experience implementing monitoring and alerting systems with tools such as Grafana, Prometheus and observability platforms


• Prior experience with Bazel or other monorepo-build software preferred


• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in interacting with stakeholders across all phases of product design, development, and delivery

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.

Salary Range

$175,000—$225,000 USD

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.