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Data Engineer

IMC Trading
🇺🇸ChicagoSeniorFull-time$175k–$225kPosted June 10, 2025

About the Role

We are seeking a dedicated and experienced Data Engineer to join our Chicago team. The ideal candidate is energized by working in a cutting-edge environment that enables IMC to continue to be at the forefront of the evolving global financial markets.

  • Architect, develop and deploy our Big Data environment (Kafka, Hadoop, Dremio, etc.)
  • Build, deploy, and monitor our data processing pipelines (Java, Python, Spark, Flink)
  • Collaborate with development teams on data modeling, data ingestion, and capacity planning
  • Work with users to ensure data integrity and availability
  • Act as a Big Data SME and consult on a variety of data-related questions from users and developers

Requirements

  • 5+ years experience working in a mature data engineering environment
  • 3+ years of experience building Kafka streaming applications and/or maintaining Kafka clusters
  • 2+ years of experience building applications/pipelines with Big Data backends (S3, HDFS, Databricks, Iceberg, etc)
  • Experience with Apache Spark, Apache Flink or similar tools
  • Strong Java, Python, and SQL development skills
  • Experience with common data-science toolkits, especially python-based
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Docker
  • Experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus/Grafana, Alert Manager, Alerta and OpsGenie
  • Strong statistical analysis skills
  • Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot and conduct root-cause analysis
  • Unix scripting experience (bash, python, etc.)

What You'll Get

  • $175k–$225k base salary
  • Discretionary bonus
  • Paid leave
  • Insurance