In this role, you will enhance IMC's development tooling and processes, ensuring a reliable multi-tenant environment and improving developer productivity. Responsibilities include troubleshooting build infrastructure, designing systems, and advocating for code best practices.
At IMC, technology is the driving force behind everything we do. Our in-house developed software executes millions of trading decisions each day, enabling us to outperform the competition by making smarter and faster choices.
We're looking for an experienced software developer, with strong communication skills to join our productivity team. The productivity team exists to amplify the effectiveness of trading, research, and engineering teams. Instead of directly building trading strategies, they provide tools, infrastructure, and processes that reduce friction and accelerate delivery. The role requires building robust solutions and solving challenges up and down the tech stack. This team owns the remote development environment used by hundreds of developers and continually tackles bottlenecks in build processes, whether they are impactful one-line fixes or sweeping architectural shifts. The team supports codebases in a variety of languages, including Python, C++, and Java, to improve the daily productivity of hundreds of developers across the globe.
Your Core Responsibilities:
Your Skills and Experience:
We're looking for an experienced software developer, with strong communication skills to join our productivity team. The productivity team exists to amplify the effectiveness of trading, research, and engineering teams. Instead of directly building trading strategies, they provide tools, infrastructure, and processes that reduce friction and accelerate delivery. The role requires building robust solutions and solving challenges up and down the tech stack. This team owns the remote development environment used by hundreds of developers and continually tackles bottlenecks in build processes, whether they are impactful one-line fixes or sweeping architectural shifts. The team supports codebases in a variety of languages, including Python, C++, and Java, to improve the daily productivity of hundreds of developers across the globe.
Your Core Responsibilities:
- Scale and advance IMC's trading systems builds and development tooling to support an excellent work environment for developers
- Ensure reliable multi-tenant development environment operations supporting hundreds of concurrent users across global regions
- Troubleshoot potential issues with build infrastructure and implementing improvements
- Design and build infrastructure supporting the development, build, test, and release processes
- Drive adoption of best practices in code health, development productivity, and maintainability
Your Skills and Experience:
- 5+ years of software development experience in Python, Java, and/or C++ required
- Experience with Kubernetes, containerization, and cluster management
- Experience implementing monitoring and alerting systems with tools such as Grafana, Prometheus and observability platforms
- Prior experience with Bazel or other monorepo-build software preferred
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in interacting with stakeholders across all phases of product design, development, and delivery
IMC Trading London, England Office
London, United Kingdom
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