Trading System 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

Being part of our Trading Technology team means you are responsible for the full stack of applications required to run the trading business. Activities range from developing ultra-low-latency exchange protocol encoders and decoders, writing and fine-tuning our automated trading strategies, to helping our monitoring and analysis effort by creating and extending user interfaces to provide the traders with more information and control. You will be interacting closely with our traders and researchers constantly. Sitting on the trading floor frequently you will be amidst the action, getting instant feedback on the results of your work. As you prove your worth you will gain more and more responsibility and freedom.Job requirements.

Your qualification

• a university degree in Computer Science, IT Engineering or Information Systems
• mastery of one or more OOP languages (i.e. C++, C# or Java) 
• a proven track record as a software engineer (can be an active github repository for graduates, and/or years of working experience in the field for more senior roles) 
• an entrepreneurial attitude 
• ambition to grow through experience, training and on-the-job development 
• to be a good team player and communicator who enjoys creative freedom and independence

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 humour 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

We are 400 highly educated professionals that work at Optiver in Amsterdam. We aim to be unrivalled in our industry, by being talented, creative and result driven. And it doesn't matter how we dress or what we believe in, as long as we exceed our and each other’s expectations.