Data Engineer Trading
Optiver is a global technology- and research-driven proprietary trading firm and market maker providing liquidity across financial markets, including through an active 24/7 Digital Assets desk.
About Optiver
Founded in Amsterdam in 1986, Optiver uses its own capital, quantitative research and proprietary technology to continuously quote, price and trade financial instruments across global markets. Its activities include listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds, foreign currencies and digital assets; its Digital Assets desk operates crypto options market-making strategies across major venues with follow-the-sun coverage.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will design, build, and maintain ETL and ELT pipelines. You will productionize research workflows, tune systems for performance and resilience, create reusable engineering patterns, establish best practices, and mentor junior engineers in DataOps.
Requirements
- Data engineering experience
- Apache Spark
- Structured Streaming
- Databricks
- Delta Lake
- ETL
- ELT
- Performance tuning
- DataOps
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain ETL and ELT pipelines
- Optimize and productionize research workflows
- Develop reusable patterns, templates, and onboarding pathways
- Define, document, and enforce data engineering best practices
- Mentor junior engineers
- Drive DataOps excellence
Benefits
- Performance-based bonus
- 25 paid vacation days in the first year, increasing to 30 from the second year
- Health-insurance discounts
- Fully paid first-class commuting expenses
- Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and barista coffee
- In-house physiotherapy and chair massages
- Organized sports and leisure activities
- Friday afternoon drinks
- Relocation packages
- Visa sponsorship where necessary for expats