Software Engineer (Java) - Global Research Platform

About the role

We are seeking a driven Java engineer to join our global research platform team in Mumbai. The team builds and operates the compute and data platform that powers all of IMC's quantitative research: a large-scale Kubernetes-based research cluster, a distributed job scheduling platform used by every trading and research team, and the market-data and dataset services that feed research on it.

What you'll do

• Design, build and operate the Java backend of our distributed job scheduling platform: the job controller and state machine, scheduling integrations
• Develop gRPC/protobuf APIs consumed by Python, Java and C++ clients across the firm
• Build event-driven services on Kafka for job lifecycle tracking, data lineage, and dataset orchestration
• Work hands-on with Kubernetes at scale: pod scheduling, fair-share queueing, preemption and multi-cluster placement
• Instrument, monitor and firefight production systems, and drive root-cause analysis of performance bottlenecks

What you need

• 3–6 years in software engineering
• Java
• Research
• Python
• SQL
• Kubernetes
• Kafka
• Any graduate

Good to have

• C++
• MongoDB
• PostgreSQL
• AWS
• Docker
• gRPC