Senior Performance Researcher
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.
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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will investigate the full trading-order lifecycle, from market data through low-latency systems, networks, brokers, and exchange responses. You will analyze large-scale data, develop and test hypotheses, build performance analyses and monitoring tools, measure production impact, and translate findings into engineering and connectivity priorities.
Requirements
- Scientific and critical-thinking skills
- Expertise in low-latency trading, exchange connectivity, broker or exchange technology, Linux, computer architecture, system performance, or high-performance networking
- Python and data-analysis skills
- Experience analyzing event, time-series, system-log, or network data
- Ability to reason from partial or noisy data and form testable hypotheses
- Ability to work autonomously and communicate complex findings clearly
Responsibilities
- Analyze market, order, system, and network data to reconstruct order lifecycles
- Identify factors affecting latency, reliability, order responses, and fill outcomes
- Develop hypotheses and design experiments
- Build analyses, prototypes, performance metrics, and monitoring tools
- Measure the production impact of changes
- Translate findings into engineering and connectivity priorities
Benefits
- Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities
- Office breakfast, lunch, and snacks
- Sponsored gym membership
- Sports and leisure activities
- Weekly in-house chair massages
- Regular social events, clubs, and Friday afternoon drinks