Software Engineer

• Company

  IMC Financial Markets

• Location

  Netherlands-North-Holland

• Remuneration

  Highly competitive

• Position Type

  Permanent

• Employment type

  Full time

• Updated

  08-Mar-2013

• eFC Ref no

  1128830

Software Engineer – Amsterdam

IMC financial markets is looking for talented Software Engineers who will drive the development of our proprietary software to further our Trading Business.

The ideal candidate will be highly technical, analytical, innovative, and self-motivated. Our team is made up of top-quality developers who will drive the automation of the development of our proprietary software. Your team will challenge your thinking and push you to new limits to improve your skills. Your responsibility does not stop at programming; it also encompasses building knowledge of our business and expertise with the entire software development life cycle. 

We work with:

• State of the art software architecture, hardware and infrastructure
• Flexible adaptation of 3rd party tools
• Continuous integration, continuous delivery

How we work:

• Agile software development process (Scrum)
• Ongoing interaction with global teams
• Collaborative culture with emphasis on continuous improvement and innovation
• Frequent peer code reviews

The opportunities you have at IMC, locally and globally, are unlike any others! Our culture encourages not only knowledge building and best practice sharing, but also gives the opportunity to be heard.

We search someone who:

• Has excellent programming skills (mainly but not limited to Java)
• Has a passion for Unix and Unix-like systems
• Is driven by simplicity and pure design
• Has strong knowledge of different distributed architectures and software designs
• Is capable of creating clear high level overviews of system and business objectives while still having low level systems knowledge and experience necessary to understand in detail real-world problems
• Strives to eliminate repetitive operational overhead and seeks to automate these
• Sees a challenge in solving ‘intractable’ problems
• Will not be stopped by application, OS, HW, network boundaries
• Proficiency and experience with all phases of the software development lifecycle
• Capable of building bridges between teams and enabling interdisciplinary communication
• Strong analytical skills and desire to solve complicated problems programmatically

Required skills and background:

• University degree in a technical direction
• 1-3 years of relevant work experience
• Experience in one or more of the following disciplines is a plus:
  • Service oriented architecture 
  • Virtual environments, clouds, databases 
  • Large scale deployment automation
  • Algorithms, data structures, and concurrency 
  • OOP/OOD and design patterns 

Success factors:

• You are an energetic self-starter and able to work productively under minimal supervision 
• You have a passion for technology
• You have good communication skills
• You like to question and act critically
• You value professional and personal growth and development through continuous learning, improving and raising the bar for yourself
• You combine enthusiasm for new ideas with the perseverance to complete them
• You are proactive in taking ownership and responsibility
• Interest in financial markets is preferred; previous knowledge is not required

IMC offers you

Apart from an excellent remuneration package with very attractive secondary benefits, we offer you the chance to be surrounded by smart, passionate and motivated people in a fun and unique culture. You enjoy responsibility early in your career and we offer you continued learning and development opportunities including global exchanges and transfers. We believe in fostering an environment in which great ideas can be recognized as well as put into practice from anybody within our organization. 

Technology at IMC

Modern financial markets are at the very leading edge of information technology today. Over the last two decades, trading has gone almost 100% electronic and trade volumes have increased dramatically. 

IMC has been at the cutting edge of this transition, and we were one of the earliest adopters of trading technology. Today it is a critical and intrinsic source of competitive edge for us. 

This edge comes from keeping our technical people in very close proximity to our traders: putting the best technology available to work and collaborating with each other on innovative ways of using and improving it.

Software Development at IMC

Software development at IMC is ubiquitous. We take it very seriously and it is critically important to our success. Some developers work very closely with Traders, Quants and Research Analysts to develop tools and automated trading strategies. They develop on top of different trading systems and also extend these with our own custom developments. Other developers have built sophisticated monitoring and control systems to enable traders, risk managers and the Operations/Integration team to keep an overview on an ever-increasing suite of strategies. 

Meanwhile, other teams are building management information systems to link trading systems to our core enterprise systems.  At IMC, software development is innovative, pragmatic and, yes, ‘fun’, even as complexity and team-size grows. Development takes place in an ‘agile’ environment with short release cycles and very close user involvement. 



Are you in?

Please apply via our website http://www.imc.nl/Financial-markets/Career-opportunities/