Systems Engineer

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Chicago, IL, USA
Hybrid
Fintech • Machine Learning • Software • Financial Services
IMC is a proprietary trading firm powered by research and technology.
The Role
Polar Operations LLC (d/b/a IMC Markets) is seeking a Systems Engineer in Chicago, IL.
Your Core Responsibilities
  • The Systems Engineer plays a critical role in maintaining and perfecting IMC's trading systems.
  • The Systems Engineer will work as part of a highly experienced team, facing the daily challenge of managing a critical, high-volume data flow in a complex trading environment distributed over a high-speed data infrastructure; will be exposed to many technical and trading challenges while ensuring high availability, stability, and performance of the end-to-end environment; focus on system administration; network troubleshooting; database tuning; development; release management; and performance engineering.
  • Provide continuity and stability in IMC's production environment and quick responses to production issues to minimize down time and ensure high availability and performance of our trading platform.
  • Coordinate, prioritize, and plan the changes to our trading software thereby ensuring smooth exchange migrations, quick time to market for new features and software.
  • Contribute towards improving the trading strategy as well as the trading infrastructure.
  • Translate trading requests into concrete technical requirements; work with various focus teams in our organizations to generate innovative and scalable solutions; and implement those solutions to enhance our systems and processes on an ongoing basis.

Systems Engineer (Requisition ID: 4435239101)
Your Skills and Experience
This position requires a Bachelor's degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or similarly analytical and technological field and one (1) year of experience in the offered position or a related occupation.
Must have one (1) year of experience in each of the following skill(s):
  • Systems administration, network troubleshooting, release management and performance engineering with DevOps focus;
  • Full-stack development in a CI/CD environment;
  • Automating, deploying, running, and monitoring performance of custom applications; and
  • Networking fundamentals, Python scripting and automation, and ansible.

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HQ: Amsterdam
1,954 Employees
Year Founded: 1989

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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.

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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.

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