Software Engineer - Agentic SDLC
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 build platforms, workflows, and safeguards that enable autonomous software development. You will provision agent environments, develop code-review and testing systems, establish change traceability, design scalable build systems, connect engineering context, measure agent performance, and work with engineers to address lifecycle bottlenecks.
Requirements
- Experience building developer platforms or tooling for large engineering organizations
- Experience with build and test infrastructure such as Bazel, Buck, and GitHub Actions
- Experience with development environment provisioning such as Coder, GitPod, or Kubernetes
- Experience with release and deployment systems such as ArgoCD, Spinnaker, and Artifactory
- Experience with source control and code-review platforms such as GitHub or GitLab
- Experience shipping agentic systems for software development lifecycle work
- Knowledge of context design, tool integration, workflow orchestration, and evaluation
- Ability to instrument platforms for adoption and friction
- Knowledge of compute isolation, identity and access controls, and network segregation
Responsibilities
- Build just-in-time development environments for agents
- Develop trustworthy automated code review
- Develop testing frameworks for agentic output
- Establish end-to-end change traceability
- Build evaluation into the platform
- Design scalable hermetic build systems
- Build context layers connecting source, documentation, build, deployment, and operational systems
- Work with engineering teams to identify and address development lifecycle bottlenecks
Benefits
- Global profit-sharing pool
- Performance-based bonus structure
- 401(k) match up to 50%
- Health, mental health, dental, vision, disability, and life coverage
- 25 paid vacation days
- Market holidays
- Office breakfast, lunch, and snacks
- Regular social events, clubs, and sporting leagues