Performance Engineer

IMC Financial Markets is among the world’s leading proprietary trading firms, and a market maker in securities listed on exchanges across the globe. Our cutting-edge technology drives everything we do. High performance algorithms, smart strategies and collaborative teams are the core of our business.

As a performance engineer at IMC, you’ll analyze, optimize, and continuously tune the complete trading environment in order to improve performance of our low latency trading systems on financial exchanges.

• Provide performance ideas, solutions, and recommendations that are both smart and scalable to the business.
• Understand internal and external developments in technology, as well as competitor approaches that can help improve IMC performance.
• Contribute towards the development of our toolset used to measure and improve performance of our trading infrastructure.
• Build IMC's knowledge base to ensure deep understanding of exchange infrastructure and protocols.
• Work closely with traders and other technology teams (locally and globally) to drive global thinking, information sharing, and sustainable, long-term solutions.

• Ability to clearly communicate complex ideas
• The ability to work without supervision; a true self starter
• Motivation and ability to conduct undirected research and to challenge ideas
• Ability to see opportunities and to make them happen
• Qualifications in Computer Science, Business Information Systems/Technology. Other degree qualifications will be considered if supported by strong IT components.
• Relevant working experience, either in a similar performance role or other technically demanding, low level technology engineering role.
• Expert level knowledge of Linux with a focus on operating system internals.
• Expert Level understanding of networked systems (TCP/IP, UDP, IP multicast).
• High level of competency with C, C++ and/or Java programming.
• Experience with tuning and monitoring distributed systems
• Expert level troubleshooting skills.
• Bash and Python/Perl fluency
• Strong automation skills with scripting languages