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How IMC Trading hires

Truth index
B 84/100
Median time to fill
106 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
43%
Reposted roles
0%

IMC Trading scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 47 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 43% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 106 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Overview

IMC Trading is a proprietary trading firm and market maker headquartered in Amsterdam that trades its own capital, providing liquidity across more than 120 trading venues with in-house trading systems, low-latency infrastructure and machine learning models. Founded in 1989 by two traders on the floor of the Amsterdam equity options exchange, it now employs over 2,000 people of more than 70 nationalities in ten offices, including Chicago, New York, London, Zug, Sydney, Mumbai, Seoul and Hong Kong. It recruits quantitative researchers and traders, software, Python and systems engineers, machine learning researchers, and graduates and interns for its campus programmes.

News

News The TRADE 1 year ago
IMC Trading taps BNP Paribas for FX options trader
Individual has also previously worked at NatWest, Rothesay and Barclays.
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News ingersoll-imc.com 3 years ago
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News Built In 4 years ago
What's the Company Culture Like at IMC Trading? What Is the Work Environment Like? Built In Chicago
IMC Trading has a long history of giving back to the community, but the trading firm has taken its impact international with its annual Trading and Gaming for Charity event - a day in which the firm donates its entire profits to a nonprofit partner.
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News Denis Kovalev 4 years ago
Senior SDE interviews in Uber, Amazon, Booking and IMC Trading in Amsterdam
This article is about my recent interviewing experience for Senior Software Developer positions in Amsterdam. It contains general preparation tips and also d...
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News Built In 5 years ago
How IMC Trading's Internship Program Helped This Grad Jumpstart her Career Built In Chicago
Learn how the skills an intern gained in her remote internship last year translated to an offer as a full-time employee in 2021.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at IMC Trading over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
122
Postings analysed
163
Stack modernity
74/100AI adopter
Languages
Python56%
C++27%
Java15%
SQL9%
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch6%
TensorFlow6%
JAX4%
Hadoop2%
Databases
ClickHouse2%
Apache Iceberg1%
PostgreSQL1%
Delta Lake1%
Cloud & platforms
Kubernetes15%
Linux14%
Apache Kafka6%
Spark3%
AI & ML
LLM1%
Claude1%
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Full IMC Trading tech stack 122 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$225k
Typical range
$95k – $300k
Open positions
47
44 Jobs
Intern 18.2%
Junior 22.7%
Middle 20.5%
Senior 29.5%
Staff 6.8%
Architect 2.3%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Intern 8 $238k $200k – $300k
Junior 10 $225k $180k – $300k
Middle 9 $225k $225k – $300k
Senior 13 $225k $95k – $300k
Staff 3 $225k $180k – $250k
Architect 1 $225k $225k
Highest paying role Quantitative Researcher - Data Curation $300k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at IMC Trading By role, level and city, against the market · 47 jobs with pay

Growth

Hiring Momentum
67/100
Growing
Open positions
149
29 opened / 27 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
85 days
faster than 16% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
19% ▼
Early Careers
12% ▼
Finance
7%
Legal
7%
Operations
7% ▲
DevOps
6% ▲
Actively hiring for Operations (+5 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added QlikSense to stack Oct 2026
Added OCR to stack Oct 2026
Added Pre-training to stack Oct 2026
Added Canva to stack Oct 2026
Added Self-Supervised Learning to stack Oct 2026
Added Multimodal AI to stack Oct 2026
Added Reinforcement Learning to stack Oct 2026
New location: United States Sep 2026
Added TCP/IP to stack Sep 2026
Added Vitis to stack Sep 2026
Added Kotlin to stack Sep 2026
Added FinOps to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
16
Hiring now
9
Countries
12
Busiest office
Amsterdam
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Amsterdam Netherlands
HQ
Amsterdam
27 open roles 15 posted in 90 days 59% engineering 200-500 est. staff
hires for Backend, Early Careers, Analytics
seen since Apr 2025 careers board, job postings
Chicago United States
Engineering / R&D
Chicago
47 open roles 18 posted in 90 days 57% engineering 500-1000 est. staff $226k Avg Salary
hires for Data Science, Backend, Early Careers
seen since Feb 2024 careers board, job postings
Sydney Australia
Engineering / R&D
Sydney
30 open roles 22 posted in 90 days 57% engineering 200-500 est. staff
hires for Data Science, Backend, AI/ML
seen since Feb 2025 careers board, job postings
Hong Kong Hong Kong
Engineering / R&D
Hong Kong
17 open roles 13 posted in 90 days 65% engineering 6% remote 200-500 est. staff
hires for Data Science, Backend, AI/ML
seen since Jan 2026 careers board, job postings
Mumbai India
Engineering / R&D
Mumbai
16 open roles 14 posted in 90 days 44% engineering 200-500 est. staff
hires for Backend, Finance, Data Science
seen since Feb 2024 careers board, job postings
New York United States
Engineering / R&D
New York
14 open roles 5 posted in 90 days 57% engineering 50-200 est. staff $255k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Data Science, Early Careers
seen since Aug 2024 careers board, job postings
Aarhus Denmark
Regional office
Aarhus
11 open roles 8 posted in 90 days 45% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Backend, Early Careers, Industrial Engineering
seen since Aug 2025 careers board, job postings
London United Kingdom
Engineering / R&D
Amsterdam
8 open roles 5 posted in 90 days 63% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for AI/ML, Data Science, Administrative
seen since Apr 2025 careers board, job postings
Zug Switzerland
Corporate office
Zug
4 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Data Science, Finance
seen since Jul 2024 careers board, job postings
Seoul South Korea
Regional office
Seoul
1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
seen since Aug 2026 careers board
San Francisco United States
Regional office
Trading Floor - ARCA (CA)
careers board
Tokyo Japan
Regional office
Remote - Japan
careers board
Shanghai China
Regional office
Shanghai
careers board
Singapore Singapore
Regional office
Remote - Singapore
careers board
Philadelphia United States
Regional office
Trading Floor - PHLX (PA)
careers board
Miami United States
Regional office
Trading Floor - MIAX (FL)
careers board

Jobs

In office • 2+ years exp • Aarhus
Python
Bash
Machine Learning
DevOps
Kubernetes
Linux
TCP/IP
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≈ $69k – $162k per year (Estimated) • In office • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Sydney
Python
SQL
Machine Learning
DevOps
Git
Analytics
Tableau
Power BI
QlikSense
ETL/ELT
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In office • 3+ years exp • Mumbai
Python
Java
SQL
C++
Maven
Gradle
C++
Protobuf
Databases
PostgreSQL
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
Ray
Time Series Forecasting
Machine Learning
DevOps
gRPC
Prometheus
SLURM
Docker
Kubernetes
Grafana
Amazon S3
Linux
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In office • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Mumbai
Python
Java
Apache Iceberg
AI/ML
Machine Learning
DevOps
Kubernetes
Linux
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$300k per year • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • New York
Python
Reinforcement Learning
JAX
Multimodal AI
TensorFlow
PyTorch
Self-Supervised Learning
Machine Learning
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$200k – $225k per year • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Chicago
Python
Machine Learning
DevOps
CI/CD
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
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In office • Internship • Hong Kong
Python
Java
C++
Machine Learning
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$250k – $300k per year • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Master's Degree • New York
Python
Reinforcement Learning
JAX
Multimodal AI
TensorFlow
PyTorch
Self-Supervised Learning
Pre-training
Machine Learning
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$200k per year • In office • Internship • New York
Python
C++
Machine Learning
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$180k – $225k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Chicago
Python
Java
Model Context Protocol
AI Agents
LLM
Machine Learning
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≈ $58k – $122k per year (Estimated) • In office • Master's Degree • Amsterdam
Python
C++
MATLAB
Machine Learning
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$200k per year • In office • Full-Time • 1+ year exp • Bachelor's Degree • Chicago
Java
C++
Machine Learning
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