Senior Software Engineer
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.
Maintainer signals as of 9/2/2026
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
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will set architectural direction, deliver substantial bodies of well engineered code, and own projects affecting distributed trading systems. You will design and deploy services, develop low latency automated trading infrastructure, collaborate with traders and researchers, and continuously improve systems and strategies for changing markets.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of software engineering experience
- Large scale server side development experience
- High throughput and low latency optimization experience
- Experience making architectural recommendations
- Passion for software and independent projects
- Strong problem solving skills
- Team collaboration skills
Responsibilities
- Set architectural direction for system components
- Design develop and deploy distributed trading services
- Build partnerships across the business
- Develop automated trading infrastructure for machine learning models
- Optimize high throughput low latency systems
- Improve trading systems and strategies
- Make architectural recommendations
