Graduate Software Engineer - Digital Assets

About the role

IMC is expanding its crypto trading activities and is looking for a Graduate Software Engineer to join its core engineering team in Zug, Switzerland. You will work on a proprietary low‑latency trading system, acquire market and trading data, implement ETL pipelines, and collaborate closely with traders and quantitative researchers to improve trading outcomes.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop, maintain, and enhance the in‑house data infrastructure that powers market and trading data platforms, covering both batch and real‑time streaming pipelines.
• Build and extend scalable data pipelines to support additional exchanges, trading venues, and new business domains.
• Collaborate with software engineers, quantitative researchers, and traders to deliver reliable, high‑performance data solutions for both research and production trading.
• Contribute throughout the software development lifecycle, from design and implementation to testing, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
• Improve the performance, reliability, scalability, and observability of distributed data processing systems.

Required profile

• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical field.
• Strong programming skills in Python and at least one statically typed language such as Java, Scala, Go, C++ or Rust.
• Experience with Python data‑analysis tools (e.g., Jupyter Notebook, Pandas, NumPy) through coursework, research, internships or personal projects.
• Solid computer‑science fundamentals including algorithms, data structures, concurrency, networking, and clean code practices.
• Performance‑oriented mindset with interest in building scalable distributed systems and understanding latency, throughput, fault tolerance, and state management.

Required skills

• Python
• Java, Scala, Go, C++, Rust
• Jupyter Notebook, Pandas, NumPy
• Apache Spark, Apache Flink, Apache Iceberg, ClickHouse
• Apache Kafka, Apache Airflow, Dagster
• Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, GitOps