Working closely with traders, researchers, and fellow engineers, you will develop a deep understanding of quantitative trading and the challenges of operating in fast-moving financial markets. You love technology and focus on solving complex problems with pragmatic, scalable solutions. Your work will help evolve and strengthen the foundations that power our trading infrastructure and research capabilities.
- Own the design, development, deployment, and ongoing evolution of our trading and research platforms.
- Build and enhance automated trading systems that run machine learning models on high-performance infrastructure to execute high-quality trading strategies.
- Continuously improve trading systems, simulation frameworks, and backtesting pipelines to adapt to evolving market conditions.
- Partner with traders and researchers to enhance the research workflow, including feature engineering, modelling, experimentation, and analysis.
- Design and scale data platforms and pipelines that support data-intensive trading strategies and research workloads.
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and continuously improve production applications to ensure operational excellence and system stability.
- 5+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer, with strong proficiency in Python and/or C++.
- Strong experience building large-scale systems and high-performance applications.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a passion for tackling complex technical challenges.
- Collaborative team player who enjoys working closely with engineers, traders, and researchers while continuously learning and improving.
- Experience making architectural decisions and driving technical direction across projects.
DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion, and it is hardwired through every stage of our hiring process. We encourage applications from candidates from any and all backgrounds, and we welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process to ensure that you can best demonstrate your abilities.
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Skills Required
- 5+ years professional experience as a Software Engineer
- Strong proficiency in Python and/or C++
- Strong experience building large-scale systems and high-performance applications
- Experience making architectural decisions and driving technical direction
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Collaborative team player, works closely with traders and researchers
Optiver Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Optiver and has not been reviewed or approved by Optiver.
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Career-Linked Recognition & Rewards — Pay is considered highly competitive in trading, quantitative, and engineering paths, with performance-linked bonuses materially elevating total earnings for strong contributors. High performers are described as seeing outsized upside when firm and team results are strong.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is depicted as comprehensive, including medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance, alongside HSA/FSA options and mental-health support. Some locations note unlimited therapy access through a partner platform.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — U.S. roles are often described as offering 25 days of paid vacation plus market holidays, alongside generous parental leave. This breadth of time off is highlighted as helping to offset a high-intensity environment.
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What We Do
Optiver’s story began over 30 years ago, when we started business as a single trader on the floor of Amsterdam’s options exchange. Today, we are at the forefront of trading and technology as a leading global electronic market maker, focused on pricing, execution and risk management.
Why Work With Us
People at Optiver love challenges, welcome collaboration, and strive to be better tomorrow than they are today. Improving the market is an extraordinary challenge that requires a carefully crafted approach. Optiver provides a collaborative working environment to tackle these challenges. In fact, it is this way of working that sets us apart.
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