Jobs at Optiver

Develop and optimize ultra-low-latency software for automated high-frequency trading systems. Responsibilities include building data ingestion, research, simulation, backtesting, and production execution infrastructure; collaborating with traders, researchers, and hardware engineers; optimizing C++ and FPGA-based systems; and contributing to trading strategies and technical direction.

Supervise and monitor automated trading systems across global markets, identify and respond to risk, compliance, production, and market-condition issues, and coordinate real-time resolution with risk managers, traders, engineers, brokers, and exchanges. The role also requires incident documentation, procedure maintenance, stakeholder communication, and preventative action. Candidates need at least five years of relevant experience, trading exposure, exchange-rule knowledge, and Singapore working rights. Python, Linux command-line skills, large-data manipulation, and high-frequency trading experience are preferred.

Develops Optiver’s U.S. government affairs and market policy strategy. Responsibilities include building relationships with policymakers and market-structure experts, managing external engagement, supporting political activities through the company PAC, advising senior leaders on regulatory matters, and developing expertise across equity, fixed-income, commodity, and derivatives markets.

Supports procurement sourcing, supplier negotiations, contract renewals, purchase orders, cost approvals, and procurement operations across indirect categories. The role partners with stakeholders, maintains accurate procurement records in Coupa, trains users, and identifies process improvements. It requires approximately 2–3 years of procurement or commercial experience, strong negotiation and stakeholder-management skills, attention to detail, and a relevant bachelor's degree.

The Machine Learning Performance Engineer will build training and inference pipelines, enhance deep learning frameworks, improve performance, and collaborate with researchers and engineers to optimize trading systems.

Design, implement, support and optimise complex international LAN/WAN, security and data center networks across APAC. Automate, monitor and benchmark networks using IaC and collaborate with developers and hardware engineers to ensure a reliable, low-latency infrastructure for trading systems.

Manage end-to-end global mobility cases across APAC, including transfers, relocations, temporary assignments, immigration, visa renewals, tax, and assignment support. Coordinate employees, internal stakeholders, and external providers while delivering a high-touch experience and ensuring compliance. Improve mobility processes, controls, technology use, automation, and AI-enabled service delivery across global teams and time zones.

Owns China-facing technology operations, regulatory and technical reporting, audits, and market infrastructure for a high-frequency trading business. Manages relationships with exchanges, brokers, regulators, auditors, and vendors; bridges internal technology teams with external parties; translates Chinese and English technical and regulatory materials; identifies operational risks and automation opportunities; and communicates risks, status, and decisions to senior stakeholders.

Owns exchange-facing technical operations, regulatory and technical reporting, audits, market infrastructure obligations, and external relationships in China. Serves as the operational bridge between technology teams, traders, compliance, regulators, exchanges, brokers, auditors, and vendors. Identifies risks and automation opportunities, improves processes and controls, translates technical and regulatory materials between Chinese and English, and communicates risks and decisions to senior stakeholders.

Develop and deploy performance-sensitive C++ software for derivatives trading systems. Collaborate closely with traders and quantitative researchers to design trading logic, refine datasets and tools, and implement strategies for live Asian markets. Contribute to the architecture of distributed systems, test and ship production code rapidly, and own software throughout its lifecycle.

Own and develop the OneStream financial consolidation platform, including configuration, workflows, integrations, security, support, and optimization. Lead its Phase 2 rollout across Finance and Tax, transition ownership from the implementation partner, manage releases and vendors, and support financial close operations. The role also drives automation and AI improvements, documents technical processes, mentors colleagues, and expands into broader finance technology initiatives and enterprise financial systems.

Deploys, monitors, troubleshoots, and manages low-latency network infrastructure supporting high-frequency trading. Responsibilities include colocation and data center design, WAN connectivity, capacity planning, traffic optimization, maintenance, protocol troubleshooting, automation, monitoring, and technical debt reduction. The role requires expertise with routing and network protocols, LAN/WAN environments, performance monitoring, and network automation.

Own finance systems support for APAC entities, managing ticket triage, incidents, SLAs, escalations, root-cause analysis, documentation, and stakeholder communication. Maintain NetSuite, Kyriba, Coupa, OneStream, and Concur, troubleshoot integrations and file transfers, coordinate regional testing, and identify opportunities for automation and AI-assisted process improvement. The role partners with global teams to maintain reliable, scalable finance technology platforms.

Design and accelerate network and trading system components using FPGAs. Research low-latency techniques, integrate hardware with servers, collaborate with traders and engineers, and apply AI to verification and debugging.

Own monthly close and financial reporting for multiple entities, translating transactions into IFRS-compliant results. Prepare management and statutory reporting, support audits, strengthen financial controls, and lead technical accounting topics. Identify and implement process improvements using data platforms, automation, and AI-enabled workflows while contributing to finance projects and reviewing junior colleagues’ work.

Manage global cash, liquidity, funding, capital, investments, and FX activities while helping transform treasury operations. Responsibilities include completing the Kyriba implementation, validating data, automating manual processes with Python, SQL, AI, and LLM tools, forecasting liquidity, analyzing capital and stress scenarios, monitoring counterparties, supporting hedging, and contributing to strategic treasury initiatives.

Own global software procurement and category management, including sourcing events, commercial analysis, negotiations, contracts, renewals, licensing, supplier performance, and risk management. Partner with technology, business, finance, legal, and procurement stakeholders to optimize software spend, consumption, total cost of ownership, and supplier outcomes. Develop category strategies, manage global processes, maintain procurement records, and contribute to sourcing playbooks and should-cost models.

Develop and maintain low-latency, end-to-end high-frequency trading infrastructure from research and simulation through production execution. Partner with researchers on equity and ETF trading systems, build pricing and trading models, deliver frequent production code changes, and ensure robust architectural and operational standards. The role requires strong C++ expertise, computer science fundamentals, and an understanding of trading and exchange systems.

Build and optimize Optiver’s Research Platform, including service orchestration, job scheduling, cluster management, distributed systems, and big-data processing. Develop scalable compute and data platform capabilities in Python and Rust, integrate emerging technologies such as GPU and CUDA tooling, and collaborate with traders, researchers, and engineers to improve large-scale simulations and model training.

Build and improve Optiver’s research platform, including service orchestration, job scheduling, cluster management, big-data processing, and managed compute and data infrastructure. Develop scalable, reliable features in Python and Rust, explore technologies such as GPUs and CUDA, and collaborate with traders, researchers, and engineers on large-scale simulations and model training.