The role involves collaborating with traders to develop trading strategies, enhancing data frameworks, and conducting quantitative research using Python.
IMC's Quantitative Python Development team partners directly with our equity and index options trading desks, blending financial theory, software engineering, data-visualisation, and applied research to convert raw data into trading edge. You'll operate in a high-calibre, intellectually stimulating environment that leverages cutting-edge technology, proprietary tools, and vast datasets. Working side-by-side with traders and software engineers, you'll see your work move swiftly from idea to production and directly influence trading performance. Our culture prizes innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning-where creative problem-solving, a strong sense of responsibility, and rigorous diligence drive success.
Your Core Responsibilities:
Your Skills and Experience:
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.
Your Core Responsibilities:
- Collaborate closely with traders to refine existing strategies and generate new ideas.
- Build, maintain, and enhance research frameworks and data pipelines that enable trading and quantitative research.
- Develop, back-test, and implement discretionary and systematic trading strategies using large, diverse datasets.
- Curate, transform, and present data in clear, accessible formats for traders and researchers.
- Drive end-to-end research cycles - from ideation through production deployment.
Your Skills and Experience:
- Master's or Ph.D. in Mathematics, Physics, Statistics, Computer Science, Econometrics, or a related discipline.
- 2-3 years of professional Python development experience, with strong, production-level coding skills; familiarity with additional languages is a plus.
- Hands-on experience with statistical analysis, numerical programming, data engineering, or machine learning in Python (Polars, Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, TensorFlow).
- Proven ability to handle large datasets, architect and optimise data pipelines, and present data effectively.
- Foundational knowledge of quantitative trading concepts and equity/index options - whether through coursework, projects, internships, or professional work.
- Exposure to web/API frameworks such as FastAPI and React is advantageous.
- Experience with orchestration and containerisation tools like Kubernetes and Docker is a plus.
- Solid grounding in calculus, probability, statistics, and optimisation; familiarity with machine-learning techniques is beneficial.
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.
Top Skills
Docker
Fastapi
Kubernetes
Numpy
Pandas
Polars
Python
React
Scipy
TensorFlow
IMC Trading Mumbai, Maharashtra, IND Office
Our Mumbai office opened in 2021. This was an important strategic step for IMC after we became one of the first global market makers to actively trade in India in the late 2000s. Located close to the National Stock Exchange (NSE), our office allows us to capitalise on opportunities in India.
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