Trading Analytics Engineer

IMC • Chicago, IL

64d

About The Position

IMC is looking for a Trading Analytics Engineer to join our established Data Analytics team that supports analysis workflows across several different trading desks. In this role, you will create critical tools and systems for analysis and help traders use existing tools to fit various use cases. Ideal candidates will be comfortable extracting detailed specifications from high level requirements and managing priorities that can shift rapidly.

Requirements

• 3+ years of engineering experience in financial markets; previous experience working in a prop trading environment is a plus
• Experience interfacing with front-office traders, analysts, or quantitative researchers
• Strong knowledge of Python language fundamentals; ability to write both OO and functional style code
• Hands-on experience with the JupyterHub/JupyterLab environment as an advanced user; previous experience supporting it across multiple users preferred
• Experience with major python analysis libraries such as pandas, polars, numpy, scipy, scikit-learn is highly desirable, especially in relation to optimization of performance on large data analytics
• Experience with distributed analysis or query engines like Spark, Trino, Dremio and Dask
• Experience working with data lake technologies like Databricks, Snowflake, Iceberg and Parquet
• Experience using LLM tools for productivity, including analysis and code generation

Responsibilities

• Work closely with traders to prototype and develop tools and libraries to support new analysis techniques
• Working directly with front office teams to improve their analysis and optimize workflows
• Translate financial markets-specific requirements into technical specifications
• Applying software skills to analysis problems in the trading domain
• Optimizing data access to improve iteration time for new ideas and working with tools like SQL, Polars/Python and Spark to ensure that data is accessed in the most efficient way possible
• Developing broad knowledge of analysis tools at IMC and how they can best be applied to various problems, in order to advise quantitative researchers and traders

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees