Software Engineer - Development Platform
IMC
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Description
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 Development Platform team. The Development Platform team exists to amplify the effectiveness of trading, research, and engineering teams. Instead of directly building trading strategies, we provide the tools, infrastructure, and processes that support all software development, aiming at reducing friction and accelerating delivery.
The role requires building robust solutions and solving challenges up and down the tech stack. The team owns and evolves IMC's build systems and development tooling, continually tackling bottlenecks in build and development processes, whether that means an impactful one-line fix or migrating an entire codebase to Bazel. 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
- Identify and implement improvements to software development workflows, from targeted, iterative refinements to sweeping architectural redesigns.
- Scale and advance IMC's trading systems builds and development tooling to support an excellent work environment for developers.
- Optimise compile times, improve code quality systems, and simplify software processes to improve the daily workflow of engineers
- Troubleshoot potential issues with build infrastructure and implementing improvements.
- Design and build infrastructure supporting the development, build, test, and release processes.
- Partner with development teams to align platform capabilities with their evolving needs, and drive adoption of best practices in code health, development productivity, and maintainability.
Your Skills and Experience:
- 3+ years of software development experience in Python, Java, and/or C++ required.
- Knowledge of stable, dependable build environments and rapid feedback cycles.
- Prior experience with Bazel or other monorepo-build software required.
- Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines with tools such as Jenkins, TeamCity and GoCD.
- Experience with containerization technologies and tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in interacting with stakeholders across all phases of product design, development, and delivery.
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.
About this role
IMC's Development Platform team operates behind the scenes of a high-performance trading operation, building the infrastructure and tooling that hundreds of developers rely on daily. Rather than contributing directly to trading strategies, you'd focus on eliminating friction across the software development lifecycle—optimizing build times, strengthening CI/CD pipelines, improving code quality systems, and evolving the tooling that supports codebases in Python, C++, and Java. The work spans the full stack, from targeted one-line fixes to major architectural migrations like moving to Bazel.
This role suits someone with at least three years of software development experience who understands build systems deeply and has hands-on familiarity with Bazel or similar monorepo tools, CI/CD platforms like Jenkins or TeamCity, and containerization technologies. You'll need strong communication skills to partner effectively with engineering teams across the organization, translating their needs into platform improvements and driving adoption of better practices. The position is based in Sydney and requires in-office presence.
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