Java Software Developer

Your Core Responsibilities:

You will work closely with traders, quantitative researchers and engineers in Mumbai and across IMC's global offices taking ownership of end-to-end high-impact product development - from requirements gathering through to production deployment and monitoring. You’ll deliver scalable, reliable, high-performance software using frequent iterations to shorten time-to-market, while constantly weighing trade-offs between latency, throughput, simplicity, scalability and maintainability. Key responsibilities include:

• Collaborate with traders and quantitative researchers to understand trading requirements and translate them into robust technical solutions.
• Design, build, test and deploy high-performance Java systems and applications.
• Take end-to-end ownership of projects, including requirements gathering, architecture, implementation, deployment, monitoring and production support.
• Write reliable, testable and maintainable software while making thoughtful trade-offs between latency, throughput, scalability, simplicity and speed to market.
• Collaborate with engineering teams across IMC and mentor junior engineers.

Your Skills and Experience:

• Strong academic background in Computer Science or a related field with 3-6 years of professional experience as a Software Engineer.
• Strong programming skills in a modern language such as Java, C++, Python or Kotlin. Java is our primary language and prior experience is a plus, but we're happy to hire strong engineers who are willing to learn it.
• Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals - algorithms, complexity analysis, data structures, garbage collection and concurrency
• Ability to work independently and take full ownership of the solutions you build and deliver.
• Natural problem-solver and team player; curious, adaptable and proactive in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; fluency in English.
• Interest in financial markets / trading. Prior experience in trading or related industries is a plus but NOT required.

Tech stack

Our current stack for strategy development primarily includes Java 21+. We also use Python 3, Docker, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, Avro, and more. We constantly evolve our technology stack and look for tools that best suit the problems at hand. If a new technology holds promise, we actively explore, adopt, and develop it.