IMC
IMC is seeking experienced Quantitative Traders to drive the monetisation of high to mid-frequency delta-one trading strategies within the APAC markets. In this role, you will harness your expertise to develop and execute profitable systematic trading strategies that deliver measurable results. Joining our dynamic and growing research and trading team, you’ll collaborate closely with quant researchers, software engineers, and hardware engineers to uncover opportunities, optimize performance, and enhance our production outcomes.
IMC competes and wins as a team, with open idea sharing and collaboration across disciplines, desks and offices.
Your Core Responsibilities:
- Develop and deploy high to mid-frequency systematic trading strategies, with a focus on APAC equities markets.
- Identify and exploit inefficiencies in financial markets, optimizing trade selection and minimizing market impact.
- Design and implement execution algorithms that account for market microstructure and dynamic liquidity conditions
- Manage and optimize risk exposures in line with the firm’s risk tolerance and trading objectives.
Your Skills and Experience:
- Degree in a quantitative field such as Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, Engineering, or Economics.
- 4+ years experience in quantitative trading with specific experience in the high to mid-frequency delta-one space, ideally within APAC markets.
- Strong programming skills in at least one language (python strongly preferred).
- Strong understanding of financial markets, market microstructure, and trading systems.
- Experience in modelling market impact, with a deep understanding of order book dynamics, and liquidity provision
- Experience building predictive models for order placement, timing, and sizing to reduce adverse selection and slippage.
- Strong data analysis skills, including working with large-scale financial datasets and tick-level data.
- Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to thrive under pressure and adapt to changing market conditions.
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.
To apply for this job please visit job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io.
Explore IMC online
Working in Seoul, South Korea
Seoul, officially Seoul Special Metropolitan City, is the capital and largest city of South Korea, and the largest city in the whole of Korea. The broader Seoul Metropolitan Area, encompassing Seoul, Gyeonggi Province and Incheon, emerged as the world's sixth largest metropolitan economy in 2022, behind New York, Tokyo, Los Angeles, Paris, and London, and hosts more than half of South Korea's population. Although Seoul's population peaked at over 10 million, it has gradually decreased since 2014, standing at about 9.6 million residents as of 2024.
Job details above are provided by the employer/source. The sections on this page are compiled from public data sources with AI assistance.
Accommodations: if you need a workplace accommodation to apply for or perform this job, see ADA.gov or EEOC.gov for guidance on your rights and how to request one.
Keep exploring on Get A Job.ai
Not quite the right fit? Your next opportunity is a click away.
- Browse all jobs
- More jobs by category
- Remote jobs you can do from anywhere
- Research typical pay for this role
- Set a job alert so new matches reach you first
- Upload your resume to apply faster
Hiring instead? Post a job and reach candidates searching right now.