Performance Engineer
Content + Source + Freshness • 02 Mar 2026 • 95% confidence
Offer value
This position offers a unique opportunity to explore emerging technologies in financial markets with significant growth potential.
- Interact with emerging technologies in trading
- Significant personal and professional growth opportunities
- Demands strong technical and analytical expertise
- Can involve fast-paced, high-pressure responsibilities
Pros
- Access to advanced tools and innovative technologies
- Ability to make a significant impact on trading performance
- Collaboration with various tech and trading experts
Cons
- High demand for continuous learning and adaptation
- Potentially chaotic workload depending on market fluctuations
- Requires handling complex technical challenges daily
Who it's for
Mid to Senior Level • In-office in Mumbai
Good fit
- Experienced performance engineers
- Tech professionals interested in finance
- Collaborative individuals who thrive in innovation
Not recommended for
- New professionals lacking relevant experience
- Those preferring non-dynamic work environments
- Individuals not keen on technical challenges
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
Technology is at the heart of modern electronic trading. IMC is seeking highly driven individuals to apply quantitative research techniques and practical experimentation to the technology used by exchanges, connectivity providers, and our own systems. You will develop new strategies to outpace other market participants in the highly competitive world of ultra-low-latency trading.
As a Performance Engineer at IMC, you will play a pivotal role in analysing, optimising, and tuning our systems interaction with exchange systems holistically. Working closely with cross-functional teams, you’ll be tasked with uncovering performance improvements across the trading stack. This role combines technical ingenuity with creative problem-solving to outsmart competition in one of the most demanding technical landscapes.
Your Core Responsibilities
- Black Box Reverse Engineering and Analysis: Analyse and understand the behaviour of complex systems using black-box techniques, identifying performance bottlenecks and optimisation opportunities. Designing and performing statistical experiments to explain emergent real world phenomena.
- Quantitative research: use large datasets to understand exchange technology.
- Experimentation & Prototyping: Design, implement, and test innovative ideas, experiments and technologies. Develop quick internal prototypes to evaluate performance and real-world applicability.
- Collaboration & Communication: Liaise effectively with traders, software and hardware engineers, and infrastructure teams to share insights and implement solutions.
- System Analysis: Analyse terabytes of network data to identify patterns, validate hypotheses, and optimise system performance.
Your Skills and Experience
- Proficient understanding of computer internals, networking and Linux (at least two out of three). Skilled in reverse engineering techniques.
- Inquisitive mind. Think Sherlock Holmes and the case of the missing microsecond.
- Understanding of complex, bespoke networks and networking stacks.
- Experience with data and system analysis in Python
- Be able to work self-sufficiently with minimal guidance after internal training
- Capable of working autonomously while contributing to a multidisciplinary team. Always looking for ways to gain an edge.
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.
