Optiver is looking for a Software Engineer to join our Novel Trading Opportunities team, who are responsible for conceptualising and bringing to life the solutions needed to achieve our ambitious business goals. Our engineers apply their thorough understanding of the low level technical challenges that we face as a market maker, to continue elevating and expanding our trading business in a fast, principled and risk-conscious manner. We’re looking for an entrepreneurial mindset and the ability to strategically identify the tools which are best placed and where time is best spent, to achieve the results needed for our business to continue performing at the highest possible level.

WHO WE ARE:

At Optiver, our mission is to continuously improve the market. By providing liquidity and accurate pricing in various financial instruments, to multiple exchanges across the world, we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets.

• You’ll work closely with the trading team, designing and building the software required to help us trade new products, in new markets, in new and innovative ways;
• This team is focused on how we can achieve our business objectives while weighing up time-to-market, technical complexity and technical debt. Examples of this include:
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• Building new autotrading strategies

• Developing pricing systems and infrastructure to price new products
• Building the systems to integrate ourselves in a first class manner to new markets and market structures
• From the get go you’ll be getting stuck in with a close-knit multidisciplinary team, working out how to crack new trading opportunities from the technical angle;
• Given the varied nature of this team’s contributions and its London location, you’ll have the opportunity to work in a start-up dynamic while being well placed to lead global technical initiatives.