Graduate Software Engineer - Digital Assets

IMC is recruiting for Graduate Software Engineer - Digital Assets in Zug, Switzerland. This listing was last seen on the firm's own job board on August 22, 2026.

Options market making with a technology-first culture and a lighter maths bar than its Amsterdam neighbour.

What sets IMC apart: Traders and engineers hired into the same programme and trained together. Lower mental maths bar than Optiver, higher weight on logic puzzles. Strong campus presence in the Netherlands, Chicago, and India.

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The role, as IMC describes it, published on July 20, 2026 and reproduced from their job board:

IMC has a strong presence in traditional Finance and has been expanding into Crypto over the last years. Through its overseas affiliates, IMC provides liquidity and trades on many cryptocurrency exchanges and DeFi protocols. You can expect a dynamic, fast-paced environment that delivers a steady stream of challenges and opportunities, with one of the most exciting aspects of the job being our quick feedback loop in the research, development and deployment of strategies.

As a Graduate Software Engineer, you‘ll be joining our core engineering team. You will contribute to our proprietary low-latency trading system, acquire market and trading data, implement ETL processes and collaborate with traders and researchers on improving the trading results.

Your Core Responsibilities:

Design, develop, maintain, and improve the in-house data infrastructure powering our 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.

Work closely with software engineers, quantitative researchers, and traders to deliver reliable, high-performance data solutions for research and production trading.

Contribute throughout the software development lifecycle, from design and implementation to testing, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.

Help improve the performance, reliability, scalability, and observability of our distributed data processing systems.

Your Skills and Experience:

Master or bachelor degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or another related technical field.

Strong programming skills in Python and at least one statically typed language, such as Java, Scala, Go, C++, or Rust.