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About this Software Engineer - Risk Technology role at IMC

IMC · Onsite · Chicago, United States

We are seeking a Software Engineer to help build the technology and analytical frameworks used to understand, measure, and optimize risk across the firm's trading businesses.

Working directly with Risk Managers and software engineers globally, you will develop systems that help the firm analyze exposures, scenarios, capital, liquidity, and other risk factors across all asset classes. You will have significant autonomy to improve existing platforms, build new tools, and pursue opportunities that make the risk organization more effective.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys combining software engineering, data science, and financial markets to solve complex, high-impact problems.

Your Core Responsibilities: 

  • Design and build analytical tools that help Risk Managers understand portfolio exposures, stress scenarios, capital usage, and emerging risks
  • Build high-end dashboards and visualization tools for stakeholders globally.
  • Work with large data sets, data pipelines that support storage, retrieval, and analysis across the risk organization.
  • Partner directly with Risk Managers to identify opportunities and rapidly translate ideas into production systems while collaborating within the firm's global risk development organization.
  • Collaborate with engineering, trading, quantitative research, operations, and data teams across the firm
  • Take ownership of projects from concept through production deployment

Your Skills and Experience: 

  • 3–5+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Strong development skills in Java and/or Python
  • Experience building and supporting production systems
  • Interest in financial markets, risk management, data science, and quantitative analysis
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Self-starter with a high degree of ownership and initiative


Preferred Technical Experience

  • Distributed systems and service-oriented architectures
  • Kubernetes and containerized applications
  • React and modern web development
  • PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, and analytical databases
  • Parquet, Hadoop, and large-scale data platforms
  • Data pipelines, ETL frameworks, and APIs

 

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.

 

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