Jobs at Optiver

Provides legal advice to European trading businesses, including listed derivatives, commodities, market making, clearing, exchanges, and trading infrastructure. Leads complex negotiations, drafts and reviews financial markets agreements, advises on market structure and trading regulation, supports strategic initiatives, manages external counsel, and develops scalable legal processes and technology-enabled solutions. Partners closely with traders, compliance, risk, finance, operations, and technology teams.

Advises stakeholders on US tax implications of trading strategies, financial products, markets, transactions, entity structures, and cross-border initiatives. Develops tax positions with external advisors, assesses tax risks and opportunities, supports tax controversy matters, and contributes to governance and policy development. Collaborates with global tax, legal, finance, technology, trading, and leadership teams in a fast-paced financial services environment.

Prepare direct and indirect tax compliance and reporting for Indian entities, including corporate income tax, withholding tax, GST returns, provisions, reconciliations, and disclosures. Support tax audits, assessments, notices, and coordination with advisors and authorities. Monitor Indian tax legislation, maintain documentation and governance, and improve processes through automation and AI-enabled solutions while partnering with finance and internal stakeholders.

Design, integrate, characterize, and improve analog RF receive and transmit subsystems for long-range HF communication systems. Responsibilities include high-power RF hardware, impedance matching, antenna and array integration, electromagnetic simulation, Python-based modeling and measurement automation, supplier coordination, and component-to-system testing. The role requires translating system objectives into RF requirements, validating performance through laboratory and real-system measurements, and optimizing gain, noise, efficiency, linearity, bandwidth, and load-mismatch tolerance.

Design, develop, and maintain Optiver’s global talent assessment tooling platform. Ensure scalability, reliability, usability, and code quality across the full software development lifecycle. Collaborate with global recruitment teams, build server-side and frontend features, participate in code reviews, and support recruitment assessments, training, education, and test authorization.

Join a trading firm's engineering team to build low-latency, production-grade systems. Learn trading fundamentals, collaborate with traders and engineers, develop well-architected code, and apply AI tools to solve real-world market problems while accelerating technical growth.

Own production support for risk, treasury, and post-trade platforms across APAC. Investigate incidents, identify root causes, implement fixes, communicate with stakeholders, automate workflows, improve monitoring and diagnostics, and operate large-scale production infrastructure. The role also involves capacity planning, deployment management, Linux troubleshooting, SQL analysis, Python scripting, and extending AI-assisted operational tooling.

Join as a graduate software engineer to build low-latency trading applications. Participate in an eight-week Global Academy, pair with a mentor, collaborate with engineers and traders, design well-architected systems, apply AI-enabled tools, and solve complex real-world problems to support rapid market decision-making.

Lead corporate strategy and commercial development for Optiver’s digital assets business. Responsibilities include market and regulatory analysis, opportunity assessment, market sizing, partnership development, commercial structuring, negotiation, strategy execution, integration workstreams, and external relationship management with exchanges, regulators, custodians, brokers, and industry participants.

Investigate trading execution-performance problems using market, order, system, and network data. Reconstruct event flows, identify performance patterns, develop hypotheses, conduct statistical experiments, and build analyses, prototypes, metrics, and visualizations. Collaborate with traders, researchers, and engineers to evaluate and implement improvements while completing lectures, coursework, and hands-on projects during an eight-week internship.

An 8-week quantitative trading internship applying mathematical reasoning to design, develop and test market-making strategies. Participate in lectures, simulated and live-data trading, historical-data analysis, backtesting, and receive mentorship. Top performers may receive a graduate trader offer.

Monitor and optimize data pipeline reliability, performance, and SLA compliance. Design data quality tests, investigate incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and implement preventive measures. Apply SRE practices to improve alerting, resilience, and recovery while developing automation that reduces manual intervention. Collaborate with data engineers, researchers, and market data teams to deliver accurate, available, trusted data supporting trading and research.

Design, analyze, prototype, test, and deploy mechanical systems for high-performance computing and custom trading hardware. Create CAD models, production drawings, fixtures, tooling, and technical documentation. Support thermal and structural analysis, fabrication, manufacturing, troubleshooting, and hardware integration while collaborating with electrical, firmware, infrastructure, manufacturing, and vendor teams.

Own end-to-end recruitment for experienced technology talent, including sourcing, headhunting, assessment, interviewing, offers, and closing. Partner with engineering leaders and agencies, develop innovative passive-candidate engagement strategies, and advise stakeholders on hiring best practices. Use AI tools and recruitment platforms to improve sourcing, outreach, market mapping, reporting, and workflow efficiency. Analyze pipeline data, support non-technology hiring as needed, and contribute to a high-performance recruiting team.

Designs, tests, debugs, brings up, and manufactures custom high-speed, high-density hardware, primarily PCBs. Responsibilities include schematic capture, PCB layout, signal and power integrity simulation, initial hardware bring-up code, interface validation, test planning, requirements development, performance research, vendor management, and ownership from concept through production. Collaborates with trading, research, software, mechanical, and infrastructure engineering teams.

Own and maintain Coupa and Rossum platforms, provide L1/L2 finance systems support, triage tickets, manage incidents and SLAs, automate repetitive work with AI tooling, create runbooks and KB articles, coordinate changes across finance systems, support enhancements and mentor colleagues to keep platforms stable, scalable, and well-configured for global finance stakeholders.

Design, build, and operate production-grade AI systems (LLM applications, agent platforms, evaluation frameworks) using Python and modern AI frameworks. Translate ambiguous business problems into scalable, reliable AI solutions, define success metrics and evaluation pipelines, integrate with internal systems and third-party services, and continuously monitor and improve performance, reliability, cost, and safety in production.

Lead the strategy, architecture, resilience, performance, automation, and operational evolution of Optiver’s global low-latency network across data centers, WAN, and colocation environments. Build and develop a specialized network engineering team, partner with trading and technology leaders, drive major infrastructure initiatives, manage capacity and connectivity, improve observability and incident response, and establish engineering standards across global infrastructure.

Design and deliver governed, scalable data products and a unified semantic layer across Finance, People, Procurement, and Compliance using Databricks, dbt, SQL, and PySpark. Implement end-to-end governance (Unity Catalog, column-level security, lineage, PII handling), drive DataHub metadata adoption, and set engineering standards for CI/CD, testing, observability, and data quality. Translate senior-stakeholder requirements into production-grade solutions used for reporting, analytics, and AI.

The Marketing Manager will lead initiatives for US priority audiences, develop tailored marketing plans, and manage content and social media activations.