At IMC, technology is not a department; it’s at the heart of everything we do. Developed in house, our innovative software makes millions of trading decisions daily, and we win by making better and faster decisions than our competition.

Our APAC Engineering teams work across a wide range of systems, including trading algorithm implementation, pricing, and the optimisation of our research processes and techniques. Engineers collaborate closely with Traders, Quant Researchers, and other engineering teams to build scalable, high-performance solutions that directly impact trading outcomes.

In Hong Kong, developers partner closely with Quant Research to design and enhance the tools and platforms that underpin our research environment. This includes building systems that enable large-scale computation on distributed clusters, supporting the exploration of new trading strategies, model training, and high-fidelity backtesting.

Your Core Responsibilities: 

• Design, build, and maintain high-performance Python applications that support quantitative research and trading
• Partner closely with Quant Researchers and Traders to translate research ideas into scalable, production-ready systems
• Develop and enhance research frameworks, simulation environments, and backtesting capabilities
• Optimise data pipelines and workflows to improve research velocity and model iteration speed
• Own systems end-to-end, from initial design through to deployment and continuous improvement
• Implement automation and tooling to increase efficiency and reliability across the research lifecycle
• Balance trade-offs across performance, scalability, and maintainability in a complex, high-performance environment
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Your Skills and Experience:

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with strong Python expertise
• Strong foundations in data structures, algorithms, and software design
• Experience building scalable systems, ideally in data-intensive or distributed environments
• Proven ability to work closely with stakeholders to solve complex, ambiguous problems
• A proactive mindset with a strong sense of ownership

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At IMC, technology is not a department it’s at the heart of everything we do. Our in-house built systems make millions of trading decisions every day, and our edge comes from making better, faster decisions than the competition.

Our engineers build software that sits directly in the latency-critical path of our trading systems. From exchange connectivity and market data handling to pricing, risk management, and order execution, our technology underpins every part of the trading lifecycle. In Hong Kong, you’ll work closely with Traders and Quant Researchers to develop high-performance systems that operate at scale in highly competitive global markets.

Your Core Responsibilities: 

As a C++ Engineer, you will design and build performance-critical components that power our trading systems, working in close partnership with Traders, Researchers, and other engineers.

• Design, build and optimise high-performance C++ trading systems that power pricing, risk management and order strategy across equities markets, ensuring robust and scalable performance in live trading environments.
• Work closely with Traders and Quant Researchers to translate trading ideas into efficient, production-ready systems
• Continuously improve system performance through profiling, optimisation, and thoughtful systems design
• Own the full development lifecycle, from design and implementation through to deployment and monitoring
• Navigate complex trade-offs between latency, throughput, scalability, and maintainability in a real-time environment

Your Skills and Experience: 

• Strong programming skills in C++. Experience in latest versions of C++ highly desirable
• Solid understanding of systems programming concepts, including concurrency, memory management, and performance optimisation
• Experience working in Linux environments
• Proven ability to build and optimise high-performance systems
• A high degree of flexibility and adaptability: willing and able to deal with uncertainty and ambiguity in a rapidly evolving environment
• Comfortable working closely with stakeholders to deliver impactful solutions

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Polar Operations LLC (dba IMC Markets) has multiple openings for C++ Software Engineer (REQ#4461662101) in Chicago, IL and Brooklyn, NY.

Your Core Responsibilities

• Implement software features and components for IMC's trading systems (25%).
• Design software solutions independently and make architectural decisions (10%).
• Debug and fix software issues in trading systems (5%).
• Identify complex multi-component issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventative solutions (5%).
• Ensure code quality and system reliability through comprehensive automated testing (10%).
• Contribute to the automated testing framework, own critical trading system components, and ensure reliability, performance, and scalability across regions (5%).
• Participate in code reviews (10%).
• Monitor system performance and trading operations (5%).
• Collaborate with traders and other teams to understand requirements and deliver solutions (10%).
• Participate in planning, estimate complexity of tasks, and help balance technical debt with feature development (5%).
• Mentor and guide junior developers and interns, helping them understand IMC's systems and development practices (10%).

Partial telecommuting permitted. Multiple positions available Requisition Number: 4461662101

Your Skills and Experience

This position requires a Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer science, Computer Engineering, or a similarly quantitative and technical field and one (1) year of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.

Must have at least one (1) year of experience in each of the following skill(s):

• Applying analytical and engineering techniques to solve complex problems programmatically;
• Programming with modern C++ in a low-latency environment;
• Developing and implementing algorithms and data structures;
• Software development lifecycle and best practices;
• Designing and developing software applications in a collaborative, cross-functional environment;
• Experience with software development for hardware platforms;
• Experience collaborating with trading desks and developing software for use in a quantitative trading environment;
• Experience with the following tools: C++ standard library, Bazel, Team City, JIRA ticket management, Gerrit code review tool, Clang / GCC, GDB, MagicTrace/perf, Valgrind, and Compiler Sanitizers; and
• Experience with the following libraries: GMock/Gtest and Clang / GCC.

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Polar Operations LLC (dba IMC Markets) has multiple openings for Software Engineer- Data (REQ#4461663101) in Chicago, IL and Brooklyn, NY.

Your Core Responsibilities

• Implement software features and components for IMC's trading systems (25%).
• Design software solutions independently and make architectural decisions (10%).
• Debug and fix software issues in trading systems (5%).
• Identify complex multi-component issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventative solutions (5%).
• Ensure code quality and system reliability through comprehensive automated testing (10%).
• Contribute to the automated testing framework, own critical trading system components and ensure reliability, performance, and scalability across regions (5%).
• Participate in code reviews (10%).
• Monitor system performance and trading operations (5%).
• Collaborate with traders and other teams to understand requirements and deliver solutions (10%).
• Participate in planning, estimate complexity of tasks, and help balance technical debt with feature development (5%).
• Participate in planning, estimate complexity of tasks, and help balance technical debt with feature development (5%).
• Mentor and guide junior developers and interns, helping them understand IMC's systems and development practices (10%).

Partial telecommuting permitted. Multiple positions available Requisition Number: 4461663101

Your Skills and Experience

This position requires a Bachelor's degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer science, Computer Engineering, or a similarly quantitative and technical field and one (1) year of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.

• Must have at least one (1) year of experience in each of the following skill(s):
• Applying analytical and engineering techniques to solve complex problems programmatically;
• Programming with Java, C/C++, or Python;
• Developing and implementing algorithms and data structures;
• Software development lifecycle and best practices;
• Designing and developing software applications in a collaborative, cross-functional environment;
• Experience building Kafka streaming applications and maintaining Kafka clusters;
• Experience building applications/pipelines with Big Data backends (such as S3, HDFS, Databricks, or Iceberg);
• Experience with Apache Spark or Apache Flink; (9) Experience with common data-science toolkits;
• Experience with Kubernetes and Docker;
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus/Grafana, Alert Manager, Alerta and OpsGenie; and
• Unix scripting experience (such as bash or python).

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Polar Operations LLC (dba IMC Markets) has multiple openings for Python Software Engineer (REQ#4461661101) in Chicago, IL and Brooklyn, NY.

Your Core Responsibilities

• Implement software features and components for IMC's trading systems (25%).
• Design software solutions independently and make architectural decisions (10%).
• Debug and fix software issues in trading systems (5%).
• Identify complex multi-component issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventative solutions (5%).
• Ensure code quality and system reliability through comprehensive automated testing (10%).
• Contribute to the automated testing framework, own critical trading system components, and ensure reliability, performance, and scalability across regions (5%).
• Participate in code reviews (10%).
• Monitor system performance and trading operations (5%).
• Collaborate with traders and other teams to understand requirements and deliver solutions (10%).
• Participate in planning, estimate complexity of tasks, and help balance technical debt with feature development (5%).
• Mentor and guide junior developers and interns, helping them understand IMC's systems and development practices (10%).

Partial telecommuting permitted. Multiple positions available. Requisition #: 4461661101

Your Skills and Experience

This position requires a Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer science, Computer Engineering, or a similarly quantitative and technical field and one (1) year of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.

Must have at least one (1) year of experience in each of the following skill(s):

• Applying analytical and engineering techniques to solve complex problems programmatically;
• Programming with Python;
• Developing and implementing algorithms and data structures;
• Software development lifecycle and best practices;
• Designing and developing software applications in a collaborative, cross-functional environment;
• Experience with DevOps, databases, big data, or frontend frameworks;
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Linux environments;
• Experience working with financial data;
• Foundational knowledge of quantitative trading concepts and equity/index options;
• Exposure to web/API frameworks such as FastAPI and React;
• Experience with automated testing and CI/CD pipelines;
• Experience collaborating with trading desks and developing software for use in a quantitative trading environment;
• Experience with the following tools: Team City, JIRA ticket management, Gerrit code review tool, GitLab, uv, Gitlab CI, py-spy, memray, and Python Packaging; and
• Experience with the following libraries: Pandas, Polars, NumPy, Tensorflow, Scikit, scikit-learn, cvxpy, and Pytest.

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