Trading Engineer - Strategy
Content + Source + Freshness • 02 Mar 2026 • 95% confidence
Offer value
Very high value due to competitive salary, influential role in trading operations, and excellent growth potential.
- Salary: $130,000–$215,000/year.
- Role critical to trading performance and strategies.
- Collaborative team environment with growth opportunities.
Pros
- Salary range between $130,000 and $215,000 annually.
- Influential position impacting trading strategies.
- Collaborative work environment with expert teams.
Cons
- High-performance expectations with potential for stress.
- Long and variable work hours during trading periods.
- Demand for specific technical skills may narrow candidate pool.
Who it's for
Mid to Senior Level • Full-time, in-office
Good fit
- Mid to senior-level engineers with relevant experience
- Professionals interested in finance and trading technology
- Candidates with strong problem-solving and technical skills
Not recommended for
- Entry-level candidates without direct experience
- Individuals looking for regular working hours
- Those averse to high-pressure work environments
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
We’re looking for a hands-on, entrepreneurial Trading Engineer to join our Strategy Development team. This role sits at the heart of IMC’s trading operation, where technology, data, and market strategy meet. You’ll own systems that power our trading strategies, build automations that make us faster and smarter, and keep our trading running smoothly under pressure.
This is an ideal opportunity for someone with an SRE or operations engineering background who wants to get closer to the action, where milliseconds matter and creativity drives impact.
What You’ll Do:
- Be on the front lines of trading: Monitor system health and performance in real time, respond to market-driven incidents, and ensure our systems stay up and fast during trading hours. Dive deep into distributed architectures to identify root causes and prevent recurrences.
- Engineer away the pain: Build tools and automations that eliminate manual processes, scale our reliability, and free time for innovation.
- Collaborate across disciplines: Partner with traders, quants, and developers to deliver high-impact improvements to our trading stack.
- Continuously improve: Challenge existing processes, propose creative solutions, and drive reliability and performance through engineering excellence.
What You Bring:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
- 3+ years in site reliability, systems engineering, or technical operations, ideally supporting high-performance or real-time systems
- Strong scripting and automation skills (Python and Bash required)
- Hands-on experience managing production Linux and Kubernetes environments
- Familiarity with Prometheus, SQL/MongoDB, InfluxDB, Kafka, or similar technologies
- A proactive, problem-solving mindset. We are looking for someone who thrives under pressure and enjoys learning new systems quickly
- Excellent communication skills and a collaborative spirit
Why It’s Exciting:
You’ll be part of a tight-knit team that drives the heartbeat of trading, where your code and decisions directly influence market performance. You’ll gain exposure to both engineering and trading strategy, work alongside exceptional technologists and traders, and have the freedom to build, automate, and innovate in a fast-paced, impact-driven environment.
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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.
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.
