Low-latency systems engineer

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

Within trading, having the best IT solutions is the only way to be successful as a market maker on electronic markets. Which hardware to use, how to use it, the software setup; everything has to be perfect. Our trading infrastructure is a web of distributed systems spanning various locations across the world. Huge amounts of data and low latency systems come together in ways previously unimaginable.

We are looking for engineers who consider this puzzle an interesting challenge. You get to know your systems inside-out, aware of every little detail that matters. You like autonomy in your job; you are the expert, you decide.

Your qualification

No prior trading knowledge needed.

Additional details

The first step in the process of applying for this job is an online (HackerRank) test assessing your engineering mindset and (python) coding skills.