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Graduate C++ Software Engineer (2025)

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Your IMC journey as a Graduate Software Engineer will begin with a five-week Global Trainee Program led by our seasoned engineers and traders alongside graduates from all three IMC regions: Europe, the United States, and Asia-Pacific. During this traineeship, you’ll deepen your knowledge about trading and financial markets, understand the tools and systems used at IMC, and learn how to write production software, craftsmanship and advanced topics in C++. Your training will continue back at your local office, where you’ll receive support from your dedicated mentor, an experienced software engineer at IMC. What happens next is up to you – you could find yourself working advanced networks, proprietary algorithms, or anything in between.

Your Core Responsibilities

  • Develop cutting-edge technology in advanced algorithms
  • Support the development of our trading platform and software stack
  • Gain experience across the entire software development lifecycle
  • Collaborate with traders, quant researchers, and hardware engineers to improve our systems

Your Skills and Experiences

  • In your ultimate year of study in computer science, software engineering, or a related field graduating, and are seeking to join IMC full-time in February or August 2025
  • Proficiency in C++ is required
  • A working knowledge of algorithms and data structures
  • First-class analytical skills and a desire to solve complicated problems programmatically
  • A genuine interest in financial markets (no prior knowledge or experience is required)

If you have already applied for this position during the current recruitment season and were not selected, you may reapply when the next recruitment season begins in September 2025. We encourage you to focus on enhancing your skillset before reapplying.

 

Please Note
IMC’s graduate traineeship includes international travel to the US. Due to current visa processing challenges, we are unable to proceed with applications from candidates who only hold citizenship from Russia, Belarus, Iran, or Ukraine. If you hold dual citizenship from another country, please inform our campus recruitment team at CampusEU@imc.com.

About Us

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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IMC Trading’s operations are global in nature and the ability to travel to the United States for work is a requirement of the graduate traineeship program. Please note that the U.S. Consulate General is currently facing challenges with visa approvals for candidates from Russia, Belarus, Iran or Ukraine. As a result, we will be unable to proceed with your candidacy for the graduate traineeship program at this time. We greatly appreciate your understanding and hope to consider you for future opportunities.

If you are a dual-passport holder of a country other than Russia, Belarus, Iran or Ukraine, we encourage you to apply and inform our campus recruitment team of your situation: CampusEU@imc.com. 

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