About this role
IMC Trading has a vacancy for the role of Software Engineer (Java) - Global Research Platform in Mumbai, India. The listing was posted on Sep 16, 2026. PakkiNaukri collects this listing from the employer's own posting and re-checks it — the employer's full description and the application itself are on the original listing, linked from this page.
From the employer's listing (short excerpt)
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. Mumbai runs one of the platform's regional production deployments, and you'll collaborate closely with platform colleagues in Amsterdam, Chicago and Sydney.
Your Core Responsibilities:
Design, build and operate the Java backend of our distributed job scheduling platform: the job controller and state machine, scheduling integrations, resource and cost tracking, and the failure-recovery machinery that keeps research workloads running at scale
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…