Optiver’s success in the world's most competitive markets is a function of our engineer, researcher, and trader quality. Our Technology Education team owns how engineers are assessed, onboarded and developed, from the first campus interview to experienced-hire ramp-up.
As a Technology Educator, you'll be responsible for improving the quality of engineers at Optiver. The Technology Education team shapes practices that influence technical hiring and talent development globally. This is a hands-on role for an experienced software engineer who is passionate about developing people. You'll collaborate with engineers, recruiters, and educators across the business to create engaging learning experiences for classroom delivery, improve technical assessments, and continuously evolve how we develop engineering talent at Optiver.
What you'll do
As a Technology Educator, your key responsibilities include:
- Designing and delivering technical interview assessments to ensure a consistent, high-quality hiring process
- Developing and leading technical training programs for interns, graduates, and experienced hires through workshops, coding labs, simulations, and coaching
- Collaborating with engineering teams to integrate new software development and AI practices into training and assessment
- Partnering with engineering and recruiting teams to connect hiring directly to on-the-job performance
- Driving improvements to assessment and curricula through analysis of performance outcomes and participant feedback
- Growing the Education function by identifying opportunities for the firm to improve the quality of its engineers
What you'll get
You'll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem-solvers. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you'll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, collectively tackling some of the toughest challenges in the financial markets.
In addition, you'll receive:
- The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries
- Highly competitive compensation package including performance-based bonus structure
- 401(k) match up to 50%
- Comprehensive health, mental, dental, vision, disability, and life coverage
- 25 paid vacation days alongside market holidays
- Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and snacks, regular social events, clubs, sporting leagues and more
Who you are
- Substantial hands-on software engineering experience with strong technical depth
- Experience mentoring, teaching, coaching, or developing other engineers through training, curriculum design, technical assessments, or similar initiatives
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to engineers at different experience levels
- Passion for developing technical talent and creating engaging, effective learning experiences
- A collaborative mindset and the ability to partner with engineering, recruitment, and education teams to improve technical development programs
- Experience designing technical assessments or interview processes is a plus
- Familiarity with agentic development, adult learning principles, or instructional design is a plus
- Exposure to high-performance, low-latency, or trading systems is a plus
- Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required; we will not sponsor individuals for employment authorization for this job opening
Who we are
At Optiver, our mission is to improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and stabilizing the market no matter the conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement, we prioritize safeguarding the health and efficiency of the markets for all participants. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a respected partner on 100+ exchanges across the globe.
Our differences are our edge. Optiver does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, or other legally protected characteristics.
Below is the expected base salary for this position. This is a good-faith estimate of the base pay scale for this position and offers will ultimately be determined based on experience, education, skill set, and performance in the interview process. This position will also be eligible for a discretionary bonus (if determined by Optiver) and Optiver’s benefits package with the benefits listed above.
Skills Required
- Substantial hands-on software engineering experience with strong technical depth
- Experience mentoring, teaching, coaching, or developing other engineers through training, curriculum design, or technical assessments
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to varied experience levels
- Ability to design and deliver technical interview assessments and instructor-led training (workshops, coding labs, simulations, coaching)
- Collaborative mindset; ability to partner with engineering, recruiting, and education teams
- Experience designing technical assessments or interview processes
- Familiarity with agentic development, adult learning principles, or instructional design
- Exposure to high-performance, low-latency, or trading systems
- Legal authorization to work in the U.S.; employer will not sponsor employment authorization for this role
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.
Optiver Insights
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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