Full stack Developer

About Optiver

Over thirty years ago, Optiver started business as a single trader on the floor of Amsterdam’s European Options Exchange. Today, we are a leading global electronic market maker, focused on pricing, execution and risk management. We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, at our own risk, trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign currencies. Our independence allows us to objectively improve the markets and provide efficiencies for end investors.

With over one thousand Optiverians globally, our mission to improve the market unites us. Thriving in a high performance environment, we pioneer our own trading strategies and systems using clean code and sophisticated technology. We achieve this by attracting, developing and empowering top talent, in order to sustain our future.

Position

You will be developing systems for our Trading department, from the GUI’s that our traders see, to real-time back-end systems crunching data and connecting everything.

These systems will require your skills in multithreading, concurrency, performance profiling and creating clear interfaces that provide the right information in the best possible way. You will be responsible for the full development lifecycle, where you will get a lot of freedom to decide on code base, technology and architecture. With direct access to end users, you will see your results in production and get immediate feedback.

Your qualification

• A Bachelor or Master degree, preferably in Computer Science, IT Engineering or Information Systems
• Working experience as a software developer in C++, C#, Python or Java, and an open mind towards programming languages
• To be a good team player and communicator who enjoys creative freedom and independence
• To have the ambition to grow through experience, training and on-the-job development

What we offer

Optiver is above all a state of mind. We are looking for you when you believe in daily improvement, when you like to be seriously rewarded for your performance and when you easily adapt to change and enjoy some humor and fun. To be concrete, we offer excellent remuneration and great secondary benefits, such as an attractive profit sharing structure, training opportunities, fully paid first-class commuting expenses, a premium-free pension, breakfast and lunch facilities, sports and leisure activities, even weekly chair massages and of course Friday afternoon drinks. We are used to guiding expats through their relocation and offer relocation packages and discounts on health insurance.

Additional details

In order to be successful in our trading domain, we constantly need the most advanced technology, trading software and connections to the market. In short, we need the best technologists to develop, optimize and support our systems and tools. As a technologist, you are responsible for the full stack of applications and the full development life cycle, granting a lot of ownership. Collaborating with our traders, your software can be deployed in production the same day providing immediate results. Latency is crucial, which is why we make us of FPGAs and microwave links to ensure fast execution. With 12 datacenters and thousands of servers we run ten thousands of trading components executing hundred thousands of trades every day.