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Trading Engineer

IMC Trading
🇳🇱AmsterdamJuniorFull-timePosted September 25, 2026

About the Role

At IMC, technology sits at the heart of everything we do, with innovative software developed in-house making millions of trading decisions daily. The Trading Reliability Engineering team plays a critical role at the heart of a complex environment, responsible for releasing daily in a safe and controlled manner as well as ensuring high availability, stability and performance.

The team works closely with traders and a wide range of technologists such as developers, systems engineers, network engineers and performance engineers in a diverse technical landscape, one where many components interface and manage a high-volume data flow over a low-latency infrastructure to execute trading strategies.

  • Troubleshooting and providing quick response to production issues, and solving the root cause of problems in a structural way
  • Helping eliminate downtime using the latest open source technologies, translating trading requests into concrete technical requirements, and working with focus teams to create and implement new sustainable solutions
  • Coordinating, prioritizing and planning changes to trading software to ensure smooth exchange migrations and quick time to market for new features and software
  • Working closely with traders, quantitative researchers and a wide range of technologists in a diverse technical landscape

Responsibilities

  • Troubleshooting and providing quick response to production issues but more importantly solving the root cause of problems in a structural way
  • Helping eliminate downtime using the latest open source technologies, translating trading requests into concrete technical requirements, and working with focus teams to create and implement new sustainable solutions.
  • Coordinate, prioritize and plan the changes to our trading software to ensure smooth exchange migrations and quick time to market for new features and software.
  • Working closely with traders and quantitative researchers and a wide range of technologists such as developers, systems engineers, network engineers and performance engineers in a diverse technical landscape. One where many components interface and manage a high-volume data flow over a low-latency infrastructure to execute our trading strategies.

Requirements

  • 2+ years of experience as an SRE or System Engineer or DevOps Engineer or MLOps Engineer
  • Solid understanding of the Linux Operating System
  • Experience with database querying
  • Basic understanding of TCP/IP protocols
  • A knack for troubleshooting
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills
  • A proactive attitude and a strong drive to learn and develop yourself