IMC Trading

Equity Options Trader

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Amsterdam

Hybrid

Junior

Fintech • Machine Learning • Software • Financial Services

IMC is a proprietary trading firm powered by research and technology.

The Role

Lead and optimize equity options trading strategies across Europe and Brazil. Drive revenue by developing positional strategies, improving signals and pricing models, collaborating with quants and developers, and performing operational trading and data-driven analysis to expand coverage of symbols and regions.

Summary Generated by Built In

Our Europe & Brazil Equity Options market has traditionally focused on highly liquid stocks but has expanded in scope to many more symbols. As a result, we have a wide range of new and exciting problems to solve. We are looking for experienced Equity Options Trader to strengthen the group, help us tackle these new challenges and expand our fast-growing team to cover more symbols and regions, with a particular focus on positional trading strategies.
Your core responsibilities:

You will maximize revenue by creating competitive edge trading strategies, using our existing signals suite and contributing to its improvement
You will have lots of responsibility and ownership early on to drive strategies forward and be successful
IMC is highly collaborative between traders, quants, and developers so the scope of responsibility is fairly fluid involving a mixture of operational trading and data-driven analysis
We've already created partnerships and business models to facilitate our expansion and we're currently working to improve our options pricing; investigating new models and improving our existing framework

Your skills and experience:

You are an experienced equity option trader with at least 2 years' experience
You have relevant tertiary qualifications (graduate or post graduate), with strong academic results, preference in mathematics, science, financial engineering or computer science
You have proven ability to act and perform successfully in a fast moving and high pressured environment
You have a passion for learning; you are driven to succeed, you work well individually and in a team to get results
Experience in computer programming is a plus (Python, C/C++, Java, Matlab, SQL)
You will be highly analytical, constantly enhancing your strategies to improve the quality of trades, pinpoint missed opportunities, and identify new trading ideas and products

Top Skills

C/C++

Java

Matlab

Python

SQL

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The Company

HQ: Amsterdam

1,954 Employees

Year Founded: 1989

What We Do

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.

Why Work With Us

At IMC, the best ideas win, regardless of hierarchy. Graduates receive mentorship and make an impact from day one, while experienced hires get to shape their own path in a flexible, high-performance environment. We remove barriers so everyone can grow and help drive one of the world’s leading liquidity providers.