Software Engineer – BP&A

IMC

Chicago, ILFull-time$130–180K/yrPosted 1mo agoStill listed today

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At a glance

Compensation
$130–180K/yr
Location
Chicago, IL
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Bachelor's degree

Job overview

The Software Engineer will join IMC’s BP&A team, which partners with finance, trading, and middle office teams to turn complex data into actionable insights. The role focuses on back-end development and building tools and systems for the business, with opportunities to work on databases, front-end development, dashboards, and data pipelines. The engineer will collaborate with colleagues across Chicago, Amsterdam, and Sydney.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Back-End DevelopmentPythonSQLReactAgentic Coding ToolsCI/CD PipelinesGitLab CIJiraContainerized EnvironmentsKubernetesDockerCloud ComputingAWSFinance ProcessesAI/ML EngineeringAnalytical ThinkingInterpersonal SkillsBusiness Acumen

Qualifications

Computer Science or Quantitative Field2+ Years Software Engineering Experience

Benefits

Paid Time Off
Medical Insurance

Full job description

The BP&A Team sits at the heart of our operations, partnering closely with finance, trading, and middle office teams. We serve as the business intelligence and analysis function for IMC to turn complex data into insights that drive real decisions. This role also connects you with colleagues across Chicago, Amsterdam, and Sydney, all part of a truly global team reporting into a Global Lead. We're looking for a Software Engineer who loves back-end development and wants to help build the tools and systems that power our business - front-end or UI/UX experience is a bonus.

Your Core Responsibilities:

  • Own meaningful pieces of system development, maintenance, process improvement, and automation, plus dig into database and front-end work along the way

  • Team up with BI developers to shape best practices, and partner directly with finance, operations, and trading teams to keep the BP&A ecosystem running smoothly, reporting to the local lead

  • Build tools that make things faster and smarter - boosting efficiency, streamlining data processing, and cutting load times

  • Build high-end dashboards and visualization tools for stakeholders globally

  • Work with large data sets and data pipelines that support storage, retrieval, and analysis across the finance organization

Your Skills and Experience:

  • Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, or another quantitative field

  • 2–5 years software engineering experience, ready to make an immediate impact

  • Strong Python and SQL skills; React experience is a plus

  • Hands-on experience with agentic coding tools (e.g. Claude Code, Codex, Cursor)

  • Comfortable with CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitLab CI, Jira)

  • Experience working in containerized environments (e.g. Kubernetes, Docker)

  • Cloud experience required - AWS a plus

  • Exposure to finance processes or AI/ML engineering a plus

  • The ideal candidate thrives in a dynamic, fast-moving environment and enjoys the challenge of things changing quickly; they also blend technical depth with business savvy, have sharp analytical instincts and the interpersonal skills to bring people along with them

Please note that immigration sponsorship is not offered for this specific opening. The Base Salary range for the role is included below. Base salary is only one component of total compensation; all full-time, permanent positions are eligible for a discretionary bonus and benefits, including paid leave and insurance. Please visit Benefits - US | IMC Trading for more comprehensive information.

Salary Range $130,000—$180,000 USD

About Us

IMC is a research-driven trading firm where quantitative modeling, machine learning, and engineering shape how modern markets are traded. A stabilizing force in markets since 1989, we provide liquidity across trading venues, delivering the best outcome in value and risk management to investors. Using our own technology and capital, we build proprietary systems and algorithms that operate across global markets. Our researchers, traders, and engineers work as a collective, combining rapid experimentation, advanced infrastructure, and real-time feedback to turn insight into execution and execution into advantage.

How this job compares

Set against the 41,631 open Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$130–180K/yr
  • Illinois median$118–199K/yr665 salary ranges
  • US median$135–217K/yr33,223 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $155K, is close to the Illinois median midpoint ($156K) — in the middle half of Software Engineer salary ranges in Illinois.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 790 open Software Engineer jobs in Illinois and 41,631 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Illinois
Experience
This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Software Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 33,828 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 14,293 of the 41,631 open Software Engineer jobs (34%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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