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Trading Data Software Engineer

A software engineer in IMC's Amsterdam VMM Data team building a central platform that ingests, curates and serves data to researchers. The focus is fundamental option pricing data for valuation market-making research.

What you’d work on

Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.

Build tools that let data curators clean and approve new datasets
Make new datasets quick to onboard for researchers
Design parts of a young global data platform
Expose curated data to research tooling at scale
Ship small changes daily with automated tests

What they ask for

Required

4+ years as a software engineer
Strong Java (11+)
Docker, Kubernetes and Linux
Ownership with little supervision
Strong troubleshooting

Preferred

Python for data work
Data analysis and data platform experience

Education: Not stated
Experience: 4+ years as a software engineer; trading knowledge not required
Languages and tools: Java
Python
Markets: options

How to prepare

Build a small pipeline that ingests, validates and serves option chain data
Learn what an implied volatility surface is and why data quality matters for it
Practise Java services with tests, containerised in Docker
Study data versioning and lineage for research reproducibility

What to study

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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with IMC Trading and doesn’t handle applications.