Who we are

Optiver is a global market maker founded in Amsterdam, with offices in London, Chicago, Austin, New York, Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei and Mumbai. Established in 1986, today we are a leading liquidity provider, with close to 2,000 employees in offices around the world, united in our commitment to improve the market through competitive pricing, execution and risk management. By providing liquidity on multiple exchanges across the world in various financial instruments we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets. We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, at our own risk, trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign currencies.

Optiver’s Sydney office is one of the primary players within Asian markets, trading a range of products. Established in 1996, we're an active participant on the Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Japan exchanges, and act as Optiver’s APAC head office. 

What you’ll do

Optiver is looking for a Procurement Sourcing Specialist to help enable the business’ strategy through sourcing supplier solutions. The Procurement function, drives strategic initiatives to ensure Optiver is buying goods and services in the most efficient way at the most competitive prices. We firmly believe in balancing a safe, orderly production environment with profitability and sustainable growth.

As a member of the Procurement team, you will individually drive a variety of purchasing initiatives, working with internal stakeholders to purchase goods & services which in turn add value to the business. To deliver this value you will work directly with suppliers to ensure the requirements, commercials and outcomes are meeting expectations.

You will also collaborate with other members of the Procurement team to analyze our spend, find areas where we can optimize costs by improving how we source and ensuring our suppliers can deliver the right outcome. If you are interested in gaining experience in both the business and technical sides of a market making trading firm while gaining Procurement experience, this role will provide that opportunity.

As a Procurement Sourcing Specialist, your key responsibilities include:

• Strategic sourcing & category support

  • Partner with business stakeholders to understand requirements for upcoming sourcing events.

  • Support or lead sourcing events from commercial and contractual negotiations, focusing on total cost of ownership, requirements and risk.

  • Conduct market and supplier research to identify sourcing opportunities, alternative suppliers and innovation

• Supplier Relationship Management –Work with suppliers to remediate any issues in the supply chain that may impact goods and service fulfillment. Lead point on supplier commercial issues to ensure prompt resolution

• Spend Analytics & Reporting – Review and analyse spend to identify trends, patterns, and areas for cost optimization. Create value-add metrics from our spend data to share with owners, to ultimately equip the business for better decision-making

• Process Development – contribute to the Procurement processes in an effort to deliver efficiencies leveraging automation and AI.

Who you are

• 2-4 years’ experience in procurement, supply chain, operations, finance or management consulting

• Strong attention to detail, diligence, and a high personal bar for quality and performance

• Ability to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously in a fast-paced environment

• Strong risk awareness, with the ability to identify and escalate issues appropriately

• Proven ability to identify and improve operational inefficiencies

• Comfortable working autonomously while collaborating across teams

• Strong communication, organisational and analytical skills

• Experience working in a complex, multifaceted business environment

• Legal authorization to work in Australia (no sponsorship available)

What you’ll get

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Driven by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle some of the most complex problems in the financial markets.

In return for your expertise, you will have access to a range of Optiver perks, including:

• A performance-based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool, fostering a truly collaborative environment.

• The chance to work alongside diverse and intelligent peers in a rewarding environment.

• Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities.

• Daily breakfast, lunch and an in-house barista.

• Gym membership plus weekly in-house chair massages.

• Regular social events, including a company trip every two years.

• Guided relocation, a competitive relocation package and visa sponsorship where necessary.

Diversity statement

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process.

Questions? Get in touch with the recruitment team at careers@optiver.com.au.

As a Software Developer Intern at Optiver, you’ll work alongside experienced engineers to develop innovative solutions that enable us to respond to the financial markets at lightning-fast speeds. In just a few weeks, you could develop latency-critical applications that contribute towards our trading success. 

By the end of the 10-week internship, you’ll have deepened your understanding of how technology is used in the quantitative trading industry. Plus, if you’ve excelled over the summer, you’ll receive an offer to return as a Graduate Software Developer. 

What you’ll do 

Led by our in-house education team that consists of former traders and engineers, you’ll delve into advanced engineering concepts and lead innovative projects. Whether it's developing ultra-low latency exchange protocol encoders and decoders, or fine-tuning our automated trading strategies and pricing models, you’ll work closely with traders and other engineers to build simple, well-architected solutions that meet the needs of our business. 

You’ll experience the excitement of a fast-paced development cycle – owning a tight feedback loop, testing and shipping your code to production. You could be working on a change to a trading system in the morning and see it run live by the afternoon. No two days are the same, and it’s up to you and your team to drive our success in the ever-evolving capital markets. 

Aside from technical skills, our dedicated education team will also work with you on your development, including:   

• Workshops on a variety of tech-based topics, along with soft skills to support your holistic growth as a developer. 

• A dedicated mentor who will guide you through our development process and how our trading systems work. 

• Trader training to get you up to speed on our business. This helps you understand the fundamentals of trading, enabling you to make an impact from the early stages of your Optiver career. 

Find your niche in technology  

We offer a range of opportunities in our technology teams. Discover the exciting projects that you could work on during your internship.  

• Read Nicole's story on working in our Statistical and Index Arbitrage team to develop position-taking strategies that predict price moves. 

• Read Brenda’s story on delivering low-latency, high-throughput systems that improve our connectivity to the financial market. 

• Read Richard’s story on navigating the world of automated trading – systems that make trading decisions. 

• Read Marcus’ story on working in the risk and treasury team, where he monitors systems that manage and mitigate risk (e.g. trading risk). 

• Read Lena’s story on production engineering, where they build tools and systems that enable us to trade smoothly. 

What you’ll get 

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Driven by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the most complex problems in the financial markets.  

In addition, you’ll receive: 

• A highly competitive remuneration package. 

• Optiver-covered flights and accommodation for the duration of the internship. 

• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals. 

• Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities. 

• Gym membership, plus weekly in-house chair massages. 

• Daily breakfast, lunch and in-house barista. 

• Regular social events. 

Who you are 

• A penultimate university student. If you are a pre-penultimate university student, discover our 2026 FutureFocus program.

• An Australian or New Zealand Citizen, Australian Permanent Resident or able to provide evidence of full working rights. 

• Studying a Computer Science, Software/Electrical/Mechatronic Engineering or similarly technical degree. 

• Problem solver who will enjoy building high-performing, low latency designs that critically impact trading success. 

• Curious to learn and comfortable exploring complex technical ideas. 

• Have a range of out-of-classroom projects or extra-curricular activities that demonstrates your passion in technology, particularly software development. 

• Excited to work alongside the best developers and traders in the industry, with the humility to continually upskill and improve yourself. 

• Knowledgeable about object-orientated design and development concepts (experience with C++, Java or Python is required for our technical assessment).  

Diversity statement  

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds, and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process to ensure that you can best demonstrate your abilities. 

Questions? Get in touch with the team at careers@optiver.com.au.  

We accept one application per role per year. If you have previously applied to this position during this season and have been unsuccessful, you can re-apply when the next recruitment season begins in 2027. 

Optiver’s Global Production Operations Engineering team is at the heart of our real-time trading systems, ensuring they operate with the highest levels of reliability, performance, and scalability. As Team Lead, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping how we manage our production environment across APAC and globally — combining hands-on technical leadership with strategic oversight to drive operational excellence.

This role offers the unique opportunity to lead a high-performing team of engineers responsible for evolving the platforms that power Optiver’s low-latency trading operations. Your leadership will directly impact system resilience, incident response, automation, and business performance in high-stakes markets. Trading at Optiver requires bulletproof infrastructure — and your team will be the one keeping it that way. This is your chance to drive meaningful change in a globally distributed, high-impact environment where engineering excellence directly fuels business success.

WHO WE ARE

Optiver is a global market maker founded in Amsterdam, with offices in London, Chicago, Austin, New York, Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei and Mumbai. Established in 1986, today we are a leading liquidity provider, with close to 2,000 employees in offices around the world, united in our commitment to improve the market through competitive pricing, execution and risk management. By providing liquidity on multiple exchanges across the world in various financial instruments we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets. We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, at our own risk, trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign currencies.

Optiver’s Sydney office is one of the primary players within Asian markets, trading a range of products. Established in 1996, we're an active participant on the Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Japan exchanges, and act as Optiver’s APAC head office. 

WHAT YOU'LL DO

As a hands-on leader, you’ll be responsible for:

• Leading and developing a world-class team of Production Operations Engineers, including hiring, coaching, and fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous learning.

• Driving strategy and execution across our global trading production environment, ensuring system uptime, scalability, and performance — especially during peak market activity.

• Designing and managing global support coverage, including a follow-the-sun model to ensure 24/7 reliability and seamless handovers across regions.

• Establishing operational standards including SLAs, KPIs, and control frameworks that ensure discipline, audit-readiness, and high service quality.

• Owning the incident lifecycle — from real-time response to root cause analysis and long-term remediation — embedding lessons learned into processes and tooling.

• Leading improvements in automation, deployment workflows, and monitoring, reducing manual effort and increasing system robustness and agility.

• Ensuring production readiness for new exchanges, trading strategies, and infrastructure changes, coordinating across development, trading, and infrastructure teams.

• Managing colocation environments and ensuring adequate redundancy, performance headroom, and operational capacity planning.

• Contributing technically to platforms, tools, and processes that enhance operational leverage, observability, and fault tolerance.

• Representing the team in leadership forums, advocating for production priorities, and aligning team objectives with broader business goals.

WHO YOU ARE

You are a pragmatic, calm, and strategic engineering leader who thrives in high-performance, mission-critical environments. You know how to balance operational safety with system performance, and people leadership with technical ownership.

Leadership & Communication

• Proven success leading technical operations, SRE, or production engineering teams in real-time or low-latency environments.

• Strong organizational skills with experience managing multi-region support and coordinating global rosters.

• Skilled communicator who can align business and technical stakeholders, provide clarity under pressure, and drive cross-functional collaboration.

• Passionate about coaching, developing, and retaining top engineering talent.

Technical & Operational Expertise

• Deep expertise in Linux-based distributed systems, ideally in capital markets, trading, or similarly fast-paced environments.

• Strong proficiency in scripting and automation tools (e.g., Python, Bash), CI/CD pipelines, and observability systems.

• Demonstrated experience defining and managing SLAs/SLOs, with a data-driven approach to improving reliability and performance.

• Comfortable leading incident response in high-pressure scenarios and building systems that prevent recurrence. This role is 40% operational. 

• Experience with colocation infrastructure, system tuning, and real-time telemetry is highly valuable.

• Exposure to high-frequency trading or low-latency financial systems is a strong plus.

WHAT YOU'LL GET

• A performance-based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool, fostering a truly collaborative environment.

• The chance to work alongside diverse and intelligent peers in a rewarding environment.

• Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities.

• Daily breakfast, lunch and an in-house barista.

• Gym membership plus weekly in-house chair massages.

• Regular social events, including a company trip every two years.

• Guided relocation, a competitive relocation package and visa sponsorship where necessary.

DIVERSITY STATEMENT

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process.

Questions? Get in touch with the recruitment team at careers@optiver.com.au.

As a Graduate Software Developer at Optiver, you’ll work at the forefront of innovation, developing innovative solutions that enable us to respond to the financial markets at lightning-fast speeds. You’ll take ownership of critical projects, constantly innovating and optimising code to keep our firm competitive in the ever-evolving capital markets. 

If you own superior problem-solving and enjoy exploring complex technical ideas, you are the ideal candidate for this role. Join us and be a part of a dynamic team where you can make a meaningful impact. 

Please note, our formal applications for Graduate opportunities are currently closed. We are seeking expressions of interest for our 2026 campaign and would love to hear from you! Please complete this application to join our 'Talent Community' so that we can keep you up to date with suitable upcoming vacancies. 

What you’ll do 

Your onboarding and training 

Kickstart your training in the Optiver Tech Academy, our global training program in Amsterdam. As part of the comprehensive training program, you’ll master the principles, systems and technologies used to build Optiver’s industry-leading trading systems, as well as discover how we work as a collective to build our world-class solutions. This opportunity will not only broaden your global network and equip you with cross regional knowledge, it will also empower you with the skills needed to excel in your career at Optiver. 

Your responsibilities  

From your first day on the team, you'll have the autonomy and responsibility to make decisions that create an immediate impact. Whether it's developing ultra-low latency exchange protocol encoders and decoders, or fine-tuning our automated trading strategies and pricing models, you’ll work closely with traders and other engineers to build simple, well-architected solutions that meet the needs of our business. 

You’ll experience the excitement of a fast-paced development cycle – owning a tight feedback loop, testing and shipping your code to production. You could be working on a change to a trading system in the morning and see it run live by the afternoon. No two days are the same, and it’s up to you and your team to drive our success in the ever-evolving capital markets.  

Find your niche in technology  

We offer a range of opportunities in our technology teams. Discover the exciting projects that you could work on during your graduate program.  

• Read Nicole's story on working in our Statistical and Index Arbitrage team to develop position-taking strategies that predict price moves. 

• Read Brenda’s story on delivering low-latency, high-throughput systems that improve our connectivity to the financial market. 

• Read Richard’s story on navigating the world of automated trading – systems that make trading decisions. 

• Read Marcus’ story on working in the risk and treasury team, where he monitors systems that manage and mitigate risk (e.g. trading risk). 

• Read Lena’s story on production engineering, where they build tools and systems that enable us to trade smoothly. 

What you’ll get 

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Driven by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the most complex problems in the financial markets.  

In addition, you’ll receive: 

• A highly competitive remuneration package. 

• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals. 

• Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities. 

• Gym membership, plus weekly in-house chair massages. 

• Daily breakfast, lunch and an in-house barista. 

• Regular social events

Who you are 

• Final year university student or recent graduate. 

• An Australian or New Zealand Citizen, Australian Permanent Resident or able to provide evidence of full working rights. 

• Studying a Computer Science, Software/Electrical/Mechatronic Engineering or similarly technical degree. 

• Problem solver who will enjoy building high-performing, low latency designs that critically impact trading success. 

• Curious to learn and comfortable exploring complex technical ideas. 

• Have a range of out-of-classroom projects or extra-curricular activities that demonstrates your passion in technology, particularly software development. 

• Excited to work alongside the best developers and traders in the industry, with the humility to continually upskill and improve yourself. 

• Knowledgeable about object-orientated design and development concepts (experience with C++, Java or Python is required for our technical assessment).  

Diversity statement  

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion, and it is hardwired through every stage of our hiring process. We encourage applications from candidates from any and all backgrounds, and we welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process to ensure that you can best demonstrate your abilities. 

Questions? Check out our internship and graduate FAQs or get in touch with the team at: careers@optiver.com.au.  

WHO WE ARE

Optiver is a global market maker founded in Amsterdam, with offices in London, Chicago, Austin, New York, Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei and Mumbai. Established in 1986, today we are a leading liquidity provider, with close to 2,000 employees in offices around the world, united in our commitment to improve the market through competitive pricing, execution and risk management. By providing liquidity on multiple exchanges across the world in various financial instruments we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets. We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, at our own risk, trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign currencies.

Optiver’s Sydney office is one of the primary players within Asian markets, trading a range of products. Established in 1996, we're an active participant on the Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Japan exchanges, and act as Optiver’s APAC head office. 

 WHAT YOU'LL DO

We’re looking for a Principal C# Software Engineer to design and build high-performance desktop GUIs that power real-time decision-making across our trading and research teams. In this role, you’ll develop responsive, Windows-based interfaces that surface complex data clearly and intuitively. You’ll work closely with traders, researchers, and backend engineers to translate sophisticated requirements into elegant, high-performance visualisations. Your work will directly impact trading performance and operational efficiency, delivering reliable applications that handle real-time data at scale while maintaining exceptional responsiveness and usability.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain high-performance Windows desktop applications using C# and modern .NET

• Develop intuitive, responsive UIs for real-time and complex data visualisation

• Collaborate with traders, researchers, and engineers to translate requirements into effective tools

• Own features end-to-end, from design through to deployment and monitoring

• Ensure performance and reliability through strong architecture, async programming, and optimisation

• Diagnose and resolve issues related to performance, threading, and memory

• Contribute to shared UI components, frameworks, and engineering best practices

• Continuously improve usability, workflows, and overall user experience

WHO YOU ARE

We need our next engineer to be someone with:

• Strong proficiency in C# and .NET, with 7+ years’ experience building production desktop applications

• Experience developing responsive, high-performance UIs using WPF, WinForms, XAML, or similar

• Solid understanding of MVVM (or similar patterns), UI architecture, asynchronous programming, and threading

• Experience debugging, profiling, and optimising desktop applications (e.g. memory usage, concurrency, rendering performance)

• A strong problem-solving mindset with a focus on performance, scalability, and reliability

• Ability to work independently, lead projects, and prioritise effectively

• Strong communication skills across both technical and non-technical audiences

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field

WHAT YOU'LL GET

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Driven by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle some of the most complex problems in the financial markets.

In return for your expertise, you will have access to a range of Optiver perks, including:

• A performance-based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool, fostering a truly collaborative environment

• The chance to work alongside diverse and intelligent peers in a rewarding environment

• Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities

• Daily breakfast, lunch and an in-house barista

• Gym membership plus weekly in-house chair massages

• Regular social events, including a company trip every two years

• Guided relocation, a competitive relocation package and visa sponsorship where necessary

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process.

Questions? Get in touch with the recruitment team at careers@optiver.com.au.

WHO WE ARE

Optiver is a global market maker founded in Amsterdam, with offices in London, Chicago, Austin, New York, Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei and Mumbai. Established in 1986, today we are a leading liquidity provider, with close to 2,000 employees in offices around the world, united in our commitment to improve the market through competitive pricing, execution and risk management. By providing liquidity on multiple exchanges across the world in various financial instruments we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets. We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, at our own risk, trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign currencies.

Optiver’s Sydney office is one of the primary players within Asian markets, trading a range of products. Established in 1996, we're an active participant on the Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Japan exchanges, and act as Optiver’s APAC head office. 

 WHAT YOU'LL DO

We’re looking for a C# Software Engineer to design and build high-performance desktop GUIs that power real-time decision-making across our trading and research teams. In this role, you’ll develop responsive, Windows-based interfaces that surface complex data clearly and intuitively. You’ll work closely with traders, researchers, and backend engineers to translate sophisticated requirements into elegant, high-performance visualisations. Your work will directly impact trading performance and operational efficiency, delivering reliable applications that handle real-time data at scale while maintaining exceptional responsiveness and usability.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain high-performance Windows desktop applications using C# and modern .NET

• Develop intuitive, responsive UIs for real-time and complex data visualisation

• Collaborate with traders, researchers, and engineers to translate requirements into effective tools

• Own features end-to-end, from design through to deployment and monitoring

• Ensure performance and reliability through strong architecture, async programming, and optimisation

• Diagnose and resolve issues related to performance, threading, and memory

• Contribute to shared UI components, frameworks, and engineering best practices

• Continuously improve usability, workflows, and overall user experience

WHO YOU ARE

We need our next C# Software Engineer to be someone with:

• Strong proficiency in C# and .NET, with 3+ years’ experience building production desktop applications

• Experience developing responsive, high-performance UIs using WPF, WinForms, XAML, or similar

• Solid understanding of MVVM (or similar patterns), UI architecture, asynchronous programming, and threading

• Experience debugging, profiling, and optimising desktop applications (e.g. memory usage, concurrency, rendering performance)

• A strong problem-solving mindset with a focus on performance, scalability, and reliability

• Ability to work independently, lead projects, and prioritise effectively

• Strong communication skills across both technical and non-technical audiences

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field

WHAT YOU'LL GET

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Driven by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle some of the most complex problems in the financial markets.

In return for your expertise, you will have access to a range of Optiver perks, including:

• A performance-based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool, fostering a truly collaborative environment

• The chance to work alongside diverse and intelligent peers in a rewarding environment

• Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities

• Daily breakfast, lunch and an in-house barista

• Gym membership plus weekly in-house chair massages

• Regular social events, including a company trip every two years

• Guided relocation, a competitive relocation package and visa sponsorship where necessary

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process.

Questions? Get in touch with the recruitment team at careers@optiver.com.au.

You’ve spent years working on open-ended problems, building models, and testing ideas. PhD Quant Focus is a two-day program designed to show how your approach in academia applies to practical challenges in global markets.  

Through hands-on workshops and technical discussions, you’ll work on problems similar to those our teams tackle, where models interact with fast-moving, noisy data, and feedback is immediate. You’ll see how techniques from machine learning, statistics, and applied mathematics are used in practice, and where they break.  

Explore how your research translates in a trading environment. Apply now. 

• Eligible for PhD students in STEM disciplines, with experience in areas such as Machine Learning, Statistics, or Applied Mathematics. 
• Program dates: 2 – 3 July 2026 
• Applications close: 29 May 2026 
• Where: Optiver Sydney office* 

* Travel and accommodation will be provided for participants outside of Sydney. 

 What you’ll do 

• Work through applied problems across research, trading and technology: Gain practical experience in applying data analysis, statistical modelling techniques to extract signals from large, noisy, event-driven data. 
• Participate in hands-on trading workshops: Build foundational knowledge and skills around market making and quantitative decision-making. See firsthand how research connects to real-time market dynamics and trading outcomes. 
• Connect with quantitative researchers, traders and engineers: Meet PhD graduates and get insights into their day-to-day work, career paths, and tips on successfully transitioning from PhD to industry. 
• Receive practical feedback to advance your transition to industry: Get feedback on how you frame problems, reason through assumptions and communicate your thinking in an applied setting.  

 What you'll get 

• Clarity on how PhD work translates in practice. Understand how your approach in academia is applied, assessed and developed within Optiver. 
• Experience firsthand how researchers, traders, and engineers collaborate, openly share knowledge, and rapidly iterate to deliver breakthroughs at scale. 
• Connect with a PhD network consisting of peers and experts across research, trading and technology. 
• Opportunity to be considered for a future internship, if you excel within the program. 
• Experience Optiver's office perks, including daily breakfast, lunch, and coffee. 

Who you are 

• PhD student.
• An Australian or New Zealand Citizen, Australian Permanent Resident or able to secure full working rights after graduating. 
• Enjoy working with complex, data-intensive problems, comfortable operating in conditions of uncertainty, and confident in applying programming, mathematical modelling and data-driven methodologies to answer challenging questions. 
• Clear communicator of technical ideas who thrives in collaborative, multidisciplinary environments. 
• Excited to test yourself in one of the most dynamic areas of the financial market. 

Diversity statement  

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion, and it is hardwired through every stage of our hiring process. We encourage applications from candidates from any and all backgrounds, and we welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process to ensure that you can best demonstrate your abilities. 

Questions? Get in touch with our team at careers@optiver.com.au.  

Who We Are

Optiver is a global market maker founded in Amsterdam, with offices in London, Chicago, Austin, New York, Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei and Mumbai. Established in 1986, today we are a leading liquidity provider, with close to 2,000 employees in offices around the world, united in our commitment to improve the market through competitive pricing, execution and risk management. By providing liquidity on multiple exchanges across the world in various financial instruments we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets. We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, at our own risk, trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign currencies.

Optiver’s Sydney office is one of the primary players within Asian markets, trading a range of products. Established in 1996, we're an active participant on the Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Japan exchanges, and act as Optiver’s APAC head office. 

What You’ll Do

Optiver is looking for experienced C++ engineers who are interested in working on our industry-leading, globally distributed, low-latency equities market making platform. This role is tightly integrated with trading and quant research teams, offering new hires a fast path to understanding the business and having an immediate impact. You will be responsible for working with equities traders to understand exactly how we want to trade on equities exchanges, partnering to refine trading algorithms to meet strict software performance demands, then owning your software through implementation and deployment into worldwide markets. From Sydney, you’ll work with live trading systems trading Asian markets with unique market microstructures. You’ll also contribute to a global equities trading platform expanding in Europe and the USA - without needing to work US/Europe market hours.

Our success trading equities worldwide depends on a scalable, performant, and well-engineered software stack, so our engineers are skilled in architecting systems that operate across globally distributed environments, while still delivering real-time performance.

You will:

• Work day-to-day with traders and quant researchers to understand how we want to price, quote and execute in equities markets and apply your skills to designing software systems and high-performance trading logic to bring those ideas to life in live equities markets.

• Collaborate with other software engineers and contribute to the architecture of our globally distributed equities trading platform with hard real-time performance constraints.

• Experience the excitement of our fast-paced development cycle – owning a tight feedback loop, testing and shipping your code to production sometimes on the same day.

• Flex your low-level engineering fundamentals by implementing performance-sensitive low-latency trading logic and strategies.

Who You Are

We’re looking for multiple engineers across a range of seniority and will tailor scope and ownership accordingly. We’re looking for candidates:

• With at least 2 years' experience as a software engineer working with distributed systems, low-latency systems, backend systems or client/server architectures.

• Who are skilled at object-oriented programming in C++, or Java/C# with a strong desire to work in C++.

• Who have an excellent understanding of computer science fundamentals like operating systems, data structures and algorithms.

• Who are familiar with a language like Python for developing tooling. 

• Who embrace AI tools for parts of their role, without sacrificing code quality or runtime performance.

• Who are excited by technically challenging problems.

If any of these describe you, we’re even more excited to talk to you:

• 5 or more years of experience as a software engineer on distributed or low-latency systems.

• Highly skilled in C++ development.

• Proficient with database technologies like Postgres for parameterisation, analytics, and research workflows.

• Experienced working in an electronic trading firm, or knowledge of equities trading fundamentals.

• Experienced working in a backtest-driven software development cycle.

What You’ll Get

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Driven by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle some of the most complex problems in the financial markets.

In return for your expertise, you will have access to a range of Optiver perks, including:

• A performance-based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool, fostering a truly collaborative environment.

• The chance to work alongside diverse and intelligent peers in a rewarding environment.

• Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities.

• Daily breakfast, lunch and an in-house barista.

• Gym membership plus weekly in-house chair massages.

• Regular social events, including a company trip every two years.

• Guided relocation, a competitive relocation package and visa sponsorship where necessary.

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process.

Questions? Get in touch with the recruitment team at careers@optiver.com.au

Who We Are

Optiver is a global market maker founded in Amsterdam, with offices in London, Chicago, Austin, New York, Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei and Mumbai. Established in 1986, today we are a leading liquidity provider, with close to 2,000 employees in offices around the world, united in our commitment to improve the market through competitive pricing, execution and risk management. By providing liquidity on multiple exchanges across the world in various financial instruments we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets. We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, at our own risk, trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign currencies.

Optiver’s Sydney office is one of the primary players within Asian markets, trading a range of products. Established in 1996, we're an active participant on the Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Japan exchanges, and act as Optiver’s APAC head office. 

What You’ll Do

We’re building out our Data Reliability & Quality Engineering function in Sydney, the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) arm of our global data platform.

This team ensures that data is reliable, accurate and available when it’s needed. You’ll sit at the intersection of data engineering, operations and market data, monitoring critical pipelines, improving system resilience and building automation to detect and prevent issues before they impact trading or research.

You’ll play a key role in shaping how we ingest and deliver trusted, high-quality data at scale, supporting a growing, data-driven global business. In this role, you will:

• Monitor and optimize the performance and stability of data pipelines to meet SLAs.

• Design and maintain data quality tests for accuracy, consistency and completeness.

• Investigate data incidents, perform root-cause analysis and implement preventive measures.

• Apply SRE principles to enhance reliability, alerting and recovery mechanisms.

• Develop automation and tooling to reduce manual intervention and improve scalability.

• Collaborate with data engineers, researchers and market data teams to align reliability goals with business priorities.

Who You Are

• 2+ years of experience in data engineering, site reliability engineering (SRE) or data operations.

• Proficient in SQL, ETL processes and at least one programming language (Python, Scala or C++).

• Strong focus on automation, system resilience and continuous improvement.

• Passionate about data quality, observability and performance optimization.

• Structured and methodical in problem-solving, with strong debugging skills.

• Excellent communication skills and a collaborative, proactive mindset.

Nice to have:

• Experience with Databricks, data observability platforms or distributed/cloud-based data systems.

• Familiarity with alerting and monitoring tools (e.g. Grafana, Prometheus, Airflow or similar).

• Exposure to financial data pipelines or low-latency trading environments.

What You’ll Get

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Driven by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle some of the most complex problems in the financial markets.

In return for your expertise, you will have access to a range of Optiver perks, including:

• A performance-based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool, fostering a truly collaborative environment.

• The chance to work alongside diverse and intelligent peers in a rewarding environment.

• Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities.

• Daily breakfast, lunch and an in-house barista.

• Gym membership plus weekly in-house chair massages.

• Regular social events, including a company trip every two years.

• Guided relocation, a competitive relocation package and visa sponsorship where necessary.

If you’re passionate about supporting reliable, high-performance data systems and want your work to directly impact trading outcomes, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply now and help us build the next evolution of Optiver’s global data platform.

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process.

Questions? Get in touch with the recruitment team at careers@optiver.com.au

Optiver is accelerating its Global Cash ambition, expanding our footprint across cash equities and ETFs worldwide. As part of this growth, we are looking for an ETF Pricing Specialist to play a critical role in scaling and strengthening our ETF pricing infrastructure. It's an opportunity to sit at the intersection of trading, technology, and market structure, directly influencing the robustness, scalability, and precision of our ETF platform across global markets.

Why This Role Matters:

As Optiver expands its Global Cash business, ETF pricing quality becomes a strategic differentiator. In this role, you'll help shape the infrastructure that enables traders to compete with confidence and precision. If you're excited by markets, systems, and the challenge of building something that scales globally, we'd love to hear from you.

What you'll do:

• Analysis and processing of ETF PCF and related data pipelines.
• Day to day validations of ETF PCFs and related data products, handling edge cases around corporate actions or data quality/availability.
• Work closely with trading and development teams, building systems to improve data quality and process automation

Who you are:

• 2+ years of experience working with ETF and related financial datasets
• Comfortable working with data; experience with Python or similar languages is beneficial
• Preference for experience processing PCFs or corporate action datasets
• Clear communicator who works well in highly collaborative, cross-functional teams
• Diligent, with strong attention to detail

What you'll get:

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be surrounded by curious thinkers and problem solvers. Driven by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle some of the most complex problems in the financial markets.

In return for your expertise, you will have access to a range of Optiver perks, including:

• A performance-based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams, and offices into a global profit pool, fostering a truly collaborative environment.
• The chance to work alongside diverse and intelligent peers in a rewarding environment.
• Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities.
• Daily breakfast, lunch and an in-house barista.
• Gym membership plus weekly in-house chair massages.
• Regular social events, including a company trip every two years.
• Guided relocation, a competitive relocation package and visa sponsorship where necessary.

Diversity statement

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process.

Questions? Get in touch with the recruitment team at careers@optiver.com.au 

Who we are

Optiver is a global market maker founded in Amsterdam, with offices in London, Chicago, Austin, New York, Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei and Mumbai. Established in 1986, today we are a leading liquidity provider, with close to 2,000 employees in offices around the world, united in our commitment to improve the market through competitive pricing, execution and risk management. By providing liquidity on multiple exchanges across the world in various financial instruments we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets. We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, at our own risk, trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign currencies.

Optiver’s Sydney office is one of the primary players within Asian markets, trading a range of products. Established in 1996, we're an active participant on the Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Japan exchanges, and act as Optiver’s APAC head office. 

What you’ll do

We are looking for an experienced software engineer and team leader to join our APAC Data Engineering Platform team. The team is responsible for developing Optiver’s next-generation data platform for research and real-time trading, covering orchestration, storage, access and governance of data at scale. This team delivers robust, consistent solutions for a range of stakeholders across the business including engineers, researchers and traders. Our Data Engineers develop solutions using a mix of third-party and in-house technologies, owning their changes end-to-end including understanding the business problem, design, implementation, testing, deployment and monitoring.

As a leader you will be responsible for working with stakeholders across the company to define the team's strategy and roadmap, and you will execute that vision with your team. Your leadership will directly enable a faster, simpler, and more scalable innovation cycle for Optiver globally. You will also be responsible for building the team and growing engineers to reach their full potential. This is a hybrid leadership and engineering role with meaningful hands-on time across requirements, architecture, and code.

Other responsibilities include:

• Build and lead a high performance data engineering team, including managing performance, career development and delivery.

• Own and deliver the vision, strategy and roadmap for Optiver’s data platform.

• Architect platform components (orchestration, storage/table formats, metadata/governance, streaming) that scale across APAC and integrate globally.

• Partner with stakeholders (research, trading, developers, SRE, security) to prioritise and achieve cross-team changes.

• Standardise ingestion and access workflows, including schema management, lineage, permissions and audit.

• Collaborate with our Europe & US offices to converge patterns and shared services.

• Contribute hands-on to key designs and production code. Uphold high engineering standards and best practices.

Who you are

Optiver needs our next Engineering Lead to have:

• 7+ years experience as a Software Engineer delivering production platforms and 2+ years of experience leading software engineering teams.

• Strong experience with distributed systems & reliability fundamentals, including partitioning, replication, consistency/availability tradeoffs.

• Expertise with one or more of Python/C++/Java/Rust. Solid API and system design skills.

• Data platform fundamentals, including batch/stream processing, table formats, object storage, SQL.

• Understanding of security and governance, such as encryption, authentication, and access control.

• Practical experience with streaming and batch data (e.g., Kafka + Schema Registry).

• Experience making architectural decisions on IT solutions, system design & implementation.

• Excellent stakeholder communication and roadmap ownership.

What you'll get

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Driven by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle some of the most complex problems in the financial markets.

In return for your expertise, you will have access to a range of Optiver perks, including:

• A performance-based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool, fostering a truly collaborative environment.

• The chance to work alongside diverse and intelligent peers in a rewarding environment.

• Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities.

• Daily breakfast, lunch and an in-house barista.

• Gym membership plus weekly in-house chair massages.

• Regular social events, including a company trip every two years.

• Guided relocation, a competitive relocation package and visa sponsorship where necessary

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process.

Who We Are

Optiver is a global market maker founded in Amsterdam, with offices in London, Chicago, Austin, New York, Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei and Mumbai. Established in 1986, today we are a leading liquidity provider, with close to 2,000 employees in offices around the world, united in our commitment to improve the market through competitive pricing, execution and risk management. By providing liquidity on multiple exchanges across the world in various financial instruments we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets. We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, at our own risk, trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign currencies.

Optiver’s Sydney office is one of the primary players within Asian markets, trading a range of products. Established in 1996, we're an active participant on the Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Japan exchanges, and act as Optiver’s APAC head office. 

What You’ll Do

As Australia Finance Manager, you will partner with local, regional, and global stakeholders to deliver accurate and timely financial insights, strengthen the control environment, and support strategic decision-making across the business. You will lead a team of four and play a key role in driving financial excellence, continuous improvement, and finance transformation initiatives.

Your main responsibilities will include:

• Delivering accurate and timely internal and external financial reporting for Optiver’s Australia and Technology legal entities, with clear business context
• Managing AASB / IFRS technical accounting matters, including share-based payments
• Overseeing regional variable compensation accounting
• Leading external and internal audits
• Partnering with the Tax team on tax accounting matters (transfer pricing, income tax, GST, FBT)
• Managing non-trading treasury activities including cash, capital, dividends, and FX
• Leading and developing a team of four, including performance, coaching, and development planning
• Supporting and driving finance transformation initiatives at a regional and global level
• Identifying and implementing process, control, and system improvements
• Strengthening the Finance control framework to ensure risks are identified and managed
• Supporting Group Finance on reporting, policies, and technical papers

Who You Are

You have a keen interest in financial markets and wish to broaden your experience in financial services. With 15+ years’ professional experience you will be able to provide clear examples of operating successfully in a fast-paced environment, managing successful teams, driving change programs, analysing financial information and providing management insights and solutions. You will be self-motivated and act with autonomy to adapt quickly and effectively manage competing priorities. You will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and approach tasks with a problem-solving and controls-based mindset, with a constant focus on continuous improvement.

Essential criteria:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Commerce, or Business
• CA/CPA (or international equivalent)
• 15+ years’ experience in a financial control or equivalent role
• Experience in a markets business (Product Control experience preferred)
• Experience with accounting systems (NetSuite preferred)
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills

What You’ll Get

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Driven by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle some of the most complex problems in the financial markets.

In return for your expertise, you will have access to a range of Optiver perks, including:

• A performance-based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool, fostering a truly collaborative environment. 
• The chance to work alongside diverse and intelligent peers in a rewarding environment
• Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities
• Gym membership plus weekly in-house chair massages
• Daily breakfast, lunch and an in-house barista
• Regular social events including a company trip every two years.
• Guided relocation, a competitive relocation package and visa sponsorship where necessary.

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process.

Questions? Get in touch with the recruitment team at careers@optiver.com.au

Who we are 

Optiver is a global market maker founded in Amsterdam, with offices in London, Chicago, Austin, New York, Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei and Mumbai. Established in 1986, today we are a leading liquidity provider, with close to 2,000 employees in offices around the world, united in our commitment to improve the market through competitive pricing, execution and risk management. By providing liquidity on multiple exchanges across the world in various financial instruments we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets. We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, at our own risk, trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign currencies. 

What you’ll do 

We are seeking a motivated, hands-on Senior Information Security Engineer to join our security team. In this role, you will help protect, monitor, and continuously improve the security of our global systems including cloud (AWS and M365) and on-premises infrastructure. You’ll play a central part in risk mitigation, incident response, automation of security operations, and embedding security best practices across our organisation. An engineering mindset, attention to detail, and a preference for pragmatic solutions are essential to keeping our systems operating. 

  Main responsibilities include: 

• Monitor daily security operations, identify threats, investigate alerts, and respond to incidents across cloud and on-prem environments. 

• Strengthen Microsoft 365 and Entra ID security through Conditional Access, MFA, PIM, Defender for Endpoint/Identity/O365, and tenant configuration hardening. 

• Build and maintain security automation using Python and PowerShell, with a strong focus on reducing manual processes and improving detection and response. 

• Integrate systems using APIs (Graph API, REST, etc) to enhance security workflows. 

• Perform vulnerability assessments, review system configurations, and develop practical mitigation strategies. 

• Contribute to incident response activities including investigation, containment, communication, and remediation. 

• Work closely with engineering, technology, and business teams to embed security best practices. 

Who you are 

Optiver needs our next Information Security Engineer to have: 
 

• At least 5 years experience in an information security or technical engineering role. 

• Ability to apply analytical thinking to technical problems within a fast-moving environment. 

• Comfortable with both Windows and Linux environments; familiarity with common security technologies (firewalls, endpoint protection, log management, vulnerability scanning, network security). 

• Solid scripting skills in PowerShell and/or Python 

• Knowledge of secure Identity Management, authentication principles, and modern access control patterns. 

• Experience using security tooling such as EDR, SIEM, SOAR, CASB, etc 

• Experience securing workloads running both on-premise (bare-metal / container) and on IaaS platforms. 

• Familiarity with identity lifecycle processes, RBAC, PAM, and privileged identity controls. 

• Understanding of vulnerability management tools (Nessus/Tenable, RunZero, etc) and secure configuration standards. 

• Experience with data protection, DLP, or information protection solutions (e.g., Microsoft Purview, DLP rules, classification/labelling). 

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application. 
 

What you’ll get 

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Driven by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle some of the most complex problems in the financial markets. 

In return for your expertise, you will have access to a range of Optiver perks, including: 

• A performance-based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry. 

• The chance to work alongside diverse and intelligent peers in a rewarding environment. 

• Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities. 

• Daily breakfast, lunch and an in-house barista. 

• Gym membership plus weekly in-house chair massages. 

• Regular social events, including a company trip every two years. 

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process. 

Questions? Get in touch with the recruitment team at careers@optiver.com.au. 

At Optiver, we seek to continuously improve our approach to pricing, execution, and risk management. We believe that the rigour with which we approach these problems is a source of competitive edge. We have an appetite to diversify and improve and are always looking for great new talent to bring fresh ideas and perspectives to our trading team. We are uniquely placed in the market with a combination of access to great liquidity through our market-making desks and a progressive risk appetite to leverage upon that.

We have an opportunity for an experienced Trader with a technical focus to join the team and improve us further. You will be responsible for building and optimising our trading strategies across APAC.

WHO WE ARE:

Optiver is a proprietary trading firm and leading global market maker. As one of the oldest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 50+ exchanges across the globe. Our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilising force no matter the market conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement, we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets for everyone who participates.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• You will build and optimise our options trading spots across APAC.
• Extensive collaboration with research/quants, developers, corporate strategy, and wider functions to deliver improvement across the trading problem.
• Strategically contribute to future direction of the team and challenge the status quo.

WHO YOU ARE:

• You have a proven track record of driving improvements on a systematic or semi-systematic trading spot - preferably at a top market-making firm
• Holistic understanding of the options trading problem
• Strong and responsible risk appetite
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Passion for trading, and a strong desire to continuously improve
• Whilst we have a strong preference for the role to be based out of Sydney, for the right candidate we can be location agnostic

WHAT YOU’LL GET:

• The chance to work alongside diverse, intelligent and driven peers in a rewarding environment
• Competitive remuneration, including an attractive bonus structure and additional leave entitlements
• Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities
• Gym membership plus weekly in-house chair massages
• Daily breakfast and lunch facilities
• Regular social events including an annual company trip
• A work-from-home allowance and support

As an intentionally flat organisation, we believe that great ideas and impact can come from everyone. We are passionate about empowering individuals and creating diverse teams that thrive. Every person at Optiver should feel included, valued and respected, because we believe our best work is done together.

Our commitment to diversity and inclusion is hardwired through every stage of our hiring process. We encourage applications from candidates from any and all backgrounds, and we welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process to ensure that you can best demonstrate your abilities.

our hiring process. We encourage applications from candidates from any and all backgrounds, and we welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process to ensure that you can best demonstrate your abilities.

At Optiver, our people are the core of our success - and that includes the next generation of talent. Campus hires bring fresh energy, sharp curiosity, and new perspectives that help push us forward. Our Campus Recruitment team plays a vital role in finding and engaging these unique minds, ensuring they thrive within our high-performance environment. 

We’re looking for a Campus Recruiter on a 12-month fixed-term contract to join our collaborative and high-achieving team. In this role, you’ll help identify and attract Australia and New Zealand’s brightest students for our intern, graduate, and early career opportunities. From shaping attraction strategies to delivering exceptional candidate experiences, your work will have a direct impact on our future success. 

What you’ll do 

As a Campus Recruiter, you’ll work alongside a passionate team of specialists, focusing on key areas that contribute to the team’s goals. Responsibilities include: 

• Supporting the full lifecycle of campus recruitment: from event planning to candidate selection. 
• Coordinating assessments, mapping interview processes, and managing logistics to ensure a seamless candidate journey. 
• Partnering with key stakeholders across the business to understand hiring needs and deliver tailored recruitment solutions. 
• Helping drive our campus attraction strategy - bringing your ideas, creativity and perspective to the table. 
• Building strong relationships with universities and student societies across Australia and New Zealand. 
• Developing a deep understanding of behavioural competencies and applying them during high-volume assessment periods. 
• Continuously improving operational processes and identifying new opportunities to attract exceptional talent. 

Who you are 

• A passionate early-career recruiter (agency or in-house), or someone keen to break into campus recruitment. 
• An excellent communicator with strong stakeholder management skills. 
• Highly organised with exceptional coordination and attention to detail. 
• A team player who thrives in a high-performance, collaborative environment. 
• Curious, solutions-focused and excited by the opportunity to improve and innovate.
• Comfortable taking ownership and driving initiatives with measurable impact. 
• Eager to learn, grow, and help shape the future of Early Careers at Optiver. 

What you’ll get 

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Driven by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the most complex problems in the financial markets.  

In return for your expertise, you’ll receive a range of benefits, including: 

• Daily breakfast, lunch, and an in-house barista. 
• Gym membership, plus weekly chair massages and a host of other wellness perks.
• Continuous learning, development and upskilling opportunities.
• A fun, fast-paced team that loves what they do. 

How to apply 

Apply directly via the form below for the position of Campus Recruiter (12 month contract). If you have any questions, feel free to contact our Recruitment team via careers@optiver.com.au Please note: We cannot accept applications via email for data protection reasons. We do not require assistance from agencies in the recruitment of this role. 

Diversity statement 

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process. 

Who we are  

Optiver is a global market maker founded in Amsterdam, with offices in London, Chicago, Austin, New York, Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei and Mumbai. Established in 1986, today we are a leading liquidity provider, with close to 2,000 employees in offices around the world, united in our commitment to improve the market through competitive pricing, execution and risk management. By providing liquidity on multiple exchanges across the world in various financial instruments we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets. We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, at our own risk, trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign currencies.  

What you’ll do  

As the IT Audit Manager APAC, you will join a global audit team of ten experienced internal auditors, including an IT lead Auditor based in Amsterdam. You will be based in Sydney alongside another Group Auditor. Optiver is currently in transition and moving towards a more globally integrated IT operating model. As a result, you will be involved not only in assessments of local entities but also regional and global functions, providing insights to the Management Board and Supervisory Board.  The assessments cover the entire IT spectrum of our organization: from Information Security to IT Operations and from IT risks in HR or payment systems to IT risk in trading systems. Additionally, you will support other Group Auditors on broader audit topics when IT expertise is needed, giving your exposure to a wide array of business areas, such as HR, Legal, Operations, Trading and Finance.  

The common purpose is to enhance and safeguard organizational value by conducting risk-based and objective audits, offering advice, and providing valuable insights. 

While the Group Audit team was originally based exclusively in Amsterdam, the team is now expanding its presence in key regional offices, including Sydney for APAC business, to enhance and scale the execution of audit activities. 

The team performs a range of audits and assessments and, when required, special projects across Optiver offices, including Amsterdam, Chicago, Shanghai, London, New York, Mumbai, Austin, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taipei. 

As part of the team, you will visit Optiver offices three or four times per year - primarily within the APAC region - for periods of one to two weeks, and will also execute audits remotely. 

 
Main responsibilities include:  

• Perform IT and Information Security audit engagements in an advanced and continuously evolving IT environment.  

• Assist with audit planning, focusing on IT related risks. 

• Support broader audit engagements outside of IT areas when required. 

• Work with different Optiver teams across the globe, taking cultural differences into account. 

• Prepare audit documentation, assist in drafting reports, and communicate findings to stakeholders. 

• Continuously learn and grow by being exposed to a fast-moving and complex business environment. 

• Support the ongoing development and refinement of audit methodology, templates, and reporting standards. 

WHO YOU ARE: 

Optiver needs our next IT Audit Manager to be someone with: 

• At least 6 years of relevant work experience, preferably within large, high-tech organizations. 

• Master’s degree in information systems, computer science, or related field. 

• Professional certifications such as CISA or CISSP. 

• Strong knowledge of IT governance, risk, and controls frameworks (e.g., COBIT, ISO, NIST). 

• Proven ability to assess IT controls across infrastructure, applications, and security domains. 

• Experience supporting IT audits, reviews, and risk assessments across varied environments. 

• Attention to detail - accurate in reviewing documentation, testing controls, and drafting observations. 

• Strong Time Management - effectively prioritizes tasks, stays organized, and meets deadlines. 

• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English. 

• Willingness to develop audit skills and the ability to work both independently and collaboratively. 

• A proactive, pragmatic mindset and a strong appetite to learn. 

• Prior experiences within financial markets and/or exposure to trading environments is considered a plus. 

• Ability to travel internationally for short assignments (approximately 8–10 weeks per year). 

• Team player and flexible to connect with colleagues based in Amsterdam and Chicago also considering different time zones the Group Audit operates in.   

 
What you’ll get  

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Driven by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle some of the most complex problems in the financial markets.  

In return for your expertise, you will have access to a range of Optiver perks, including:  

• A performance-based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry.  

• The chance to work alongside diverse and intelligent peers in a rewarding environment.  

• Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities.  

• Daily breakfast, lunch and an in-house barista.  

• Gym membership plus weekly in-house chair massages.  

• Regular social events, including a company trip every two years.  

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process.  

Questions? Get in touch with the recruitment team at careers@optiver.com.au.  

Who We Are

Optiver is a global market maker founded in Amsterdam, with offices in London, Chicago, Austin, New York, Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei and Mumbai. Established in 1986, today we are a leading liquidity provider, with close to 2,000 employees in offices around the world, united in our commitment to improve the market through competitive pricing, execution and risk management. By providing liquidity on multiple exchanges across the world in various financial instruments we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets. We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, at our own risk, trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign currencies.

Optiver’s Sydney office is one of the primary players within Asian markets, trading a range of products. Established in 1996, we're an active participant on the Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Japan exchanges, and act as Optiver’s APAC head office. 

What You’ll Do

Optiver is looking for a senior engineer to work with our low latency execution platforms, including software that interfaces directly with FPGA-based components. Our execution platforms are responsible for placing orders from auto-trading algorithms with as low a latency as possible, implementing risk boundary checks, order management and exchange connectivity.

As a senior engineer you will be responsible for working with internal stakeholders across the company including trading, risk, compliance and research teams to design key features in our execution applications and own their implementation end-to-end. Our engineers design, implement, test, and deploy their ideas, and feel the success of their work in live trading markets across Asia. Trade execution in Asia isn’t simple - you’ll study exchange microstructure in depth and use your creativity to invent new ways to optimise order placement and packet delivery. Our development is often fast paced, fulfilling, and rewarding, with the ability to work on features and see them running in live markets within days.

You will:

• Partner with trading and research teams to understand our trade execution performance and look for inventive ways to boost trade execution rates, ensuring Optiver retains its number one status in the market.

• Flex your understanding of computer science fundamentals to optimise C++ applications to perform with high order throughput and low end-to-end latency.

• Directly interface with the live production environment to get fast feedback from live trading and feel the impact of your work.

• Ensure quality is maintained throughout our systems by contributing to code reviews and the design of last-line-of-defence systems.

• Provide advice and guidance to junior developers.

Who you are

We’re looking for candidates:

• With at least 5 years' experience as a software engineer working with performance-critical high throughput or low latency systems.

• Who are skilled at object-oriented programming in C++, or Java/C# with a strong desire to work in C++.

• Who have a strong understanding of network technologies (10G Ethernet, UDP, TCP) and Linux networking.

• Who have an excellent understanding of computer science fundamentals like operating systems, data structures and algorithms.

• Who are excited by technically challenging problems.

• Who embrace AI tools for parts of their role, without sacrificing code quality or runtime performance.

If any of these describe you, we’re even more excited to talk to you:

• Highly skilled in C++ development.

• Experienced working in a high frequency trading firm.

What You’ll Get

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Driven by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle some of the most complex problems in the financial markets.

In return for your expertise, you will have access to a range of Optiver perks, including:

• A performance-based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool, fostering a truly collaborative environment.

• The chance to work alongside diverse and intelligent peers in a rewarding environment.

• Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities.

• Daily breakfast, lunch and an in-house barista.

• Gym membership plus weekly in-house chair massages.

• Regular social events, including a company trip every two years.

• Guided relocation, a competitive relocation package and visa sponsorship where necessary.

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process.

Questions? Get in touch with the recruitment team at careers@optiver.com.au

Who we are

Optiver is a global market maker founded in Amsterdam, with offices in London, Chicago, Austin, New York, Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei and Mumbai. Established in 1986, today we are a leading liquidity provider, with close to 2,000 employees in offices around the world, united in our commitment to improve the market through competitive pricing, execution and risk management. By providing liquidity on multiple exchanges across the world in various financial instruments we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets. We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, at our own risk, trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign currencies.

Optiver’s Sydney office is one of the primary players within Asian markets, trading a range of products. Established in 1996, we're an active participant on the Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Japan exchanges, and act as Optiver’s APAC head office. 

What you’ll do

We are looking for an experienced software engineer and team leader to lead our APAC Data Engineering Platform team. The team is responsible for developing Optiver’s next-generation data platform for research and real-time trading, covering orchestration, storage, access and governance of data at scale. This team delivers robust, consistent solutions for a range of stakeholders across the business including engineers, researchers and traders. Our Data Engineers develop solutions using a mix of third-party and in-house technologies, owning their changes end-to-end including understanding the business problem, design, implementation, testing, deployment and monitoring.

As a leader you will be responsible for working with stakeholders across the company to define the team's strategy and roadmap, and you will execute that vision with your team. Your leadership will directly enable a faster, simpler, and more scalable innovation cycle for Optiver globally. You will also be responsible for building the team and growing engineers to reach their full potential. This is a hybrid leadership and engineering role with meaningful hands-on time across requirements, architecture, and code.

Other responsibilities include:

• Build and lead a high performance data engineering team, including managing performance, career development and delivery.

• Own and deliver the vision, strategy and roadmap for Optiver’s data platform.

• Architect platform components (orchestration, storage/table formats, metadata/governance, streaming) that scale across APAC and integrate globally.

• Partner with stakeholders (research, trading, developers, SRE, security) to prioritise and achieve cross-team changes.

• Standardise ingestion and access workflows, including schema management, lineage, permissions and audit.

• Collaborate with our Europe & US offices to converge patterns and shared services.

• Contribute hands-on to key designs and production code. Uphold high engineering standards and best practices.

Who you are

Optiver needs our next Data Team Lead to have:

• 7+ years experience as a Software Engineer delivering production platforms and 2+ years of experience leading software engineering teams.

• Strong experience with distributed systems & reliability fundamentals, including partitioning, replication, consistency/availability tradeoffs.

• Expertise with one or more of Python/C++/Java/Rust. Solid API and system design skills.

• Data platform fundamentals, including batch/stream processing, table formats, object storage, SQL.

• Understanding of security and governance, such as encryption, authentication, and access control.

• Practical experience with streaming and batch data (e.g., Kafka + Schema Registry).

• Experience making architectural decisions on IT solutions, system design & implementation.

• Excellent stakeholder communication and roadmap ownership.

What you'll get

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Driven by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle some of the most complex problems in the financial markets.

In return for your expertise, you will have access to a range of Optiver perks, including:

• A performance-based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool, fostering a truly collaborative environment.

• The chance to work alongside diverse and intelligent peers in a rewarding environment.

• Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities.

• Daily breakfast, lunch and an in-house barista.

• Gym membership plus weekly in-house chair massages.

• Regular social events, including a company trip every two years.

• Guided relocation, a competitive relocation package and visa sponsorship where necessary

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process.

Optiver is a global market maker founded in Amsterdam, with offices in London, Chicago, Austin, New York, Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei and Mumbai. Established in 1986, today we are a leading liquidity provider, with close to 2,000 employees in offices around the world, united in our commitment to improve the market through competitive pricing, execution and risk management. By providing liquidity on multiple exchanges across the world in various financial instruments we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets. We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, at our own risk, trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign currencies.

Optiver’s Sydney office is one of the primary players within Asian markets, trading a range of products. Established in 1996, we're an active participant on the Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Japan exchanges, and act as Optiver’s APAC head office.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Trading and position taking in equity repo and dividends across multiple markets on both an index and single stock level
• Identify new opportunities and areas for growth, and explore these to help grow the business
• Collaborate with different parts of the business to influence trading decisions and projects across the firm
• Externally represent Optiver, working with brokers and direct counterparties to provide liquidity

WHO YOU ARE:

• Have 3+ years experience trading index rolls, dividends, and/or equity repo
• A track record of profitably pricing and trading rolls is essential
• Strong interpersonal skills and an ability to be clear, assertive and understanding when talking to external parties.
• Have an understanding of the market landscape and industry dynamics, as well as being on top of new developments and flows
• Demonstrate a mature thought process with capacity to challenge the future direction of the business
• A deep knowledge of APAC dividends would be an advantage
• Leadership experience is a significant advantage but not essential

WHAT YOU’LL GET:

• A performance-based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool, fostering a truly collaborative environment.
• The chance to work alongside diverse and intelligent peers in a rewarding environment.
• Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities.
• Daily breakfast, lunch and an in-house barista.
• Gym membership plus weekly in-house chair massages.
• Regular social events, including a company trip every two years.
• Guided relocation, a competitive relocation package and visa sponsorship where necessary.

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process.

Questions? Get in touch with the recruitment team at careers@optiver.com.au

As our Graduate Quantitative Researcher, you’ll develop, refine and implement statisitical models that directly impact and improve the global financial markets. As part of a team of expert researchers, you’ll leverage our large historical datasets and the latest technologies to develop innovative solutions that drive Optiver’s cutting-edge trading strategies, fully immersing in the world of market making. 

If you have a critical mindset, a passion for quanititative problems and mathematical precision, you are the ideal candidate for this role. Join us and be a part of a dynamic team where you can make a meaningful impact. 

Please note, our formal applications for Graduate opportunities are currently closed. We are seeking expressions of interest for our 2026 campaign and would love to hear from you! Please complete this application to join our 'Talent Community' so that we can keep you up to date with suitable upcoming vacancies. 

What you’ll do 

Your onboarding and training 

Kickstart your training in the Optiver Academy, our four-week global training program in Amsterdam. Here you’ll learn from our dedicated in-house education team and other industry experts through a series of lectures, coursework and collaborative project work.  

Following this, the comprehensive training program in Sydney will equip you with the knowledge needed to make an impact from the moment you join your research team. You’ll learn the intricacies of option theory and apply your knowledge to real-world scenarios, developing models that contribute towards our trading success. We believe a realistic hands-on experience is the best way to learn, and that is exactly what we provide. 

After joining one of our research teams, you’ll continue to optimise our innovative trading strategies, and gain a deeper insight into the different products and trading strategies within the team. Our education team will continue to provide training through a curated series of lectures over your first 12 months as a graduate researcher. 

Your responsibilities  

From your first day on the team, you’ll have the autonomy and responsibility to make decisions that create an immediate impact. Every day will present you with new and interesting challenges to solve, and it’s up to you and your team to drive our success by ensuring that our quantitative models remain at the cutting-edge of constantly evolving capital markets.  

Key responsibilities may include: 

• Using statistical models and machine learning to develop innovative solutions that are foundational to Optiver’s trading strategies  

• Leveraging big data technologies to analyse high-frequency trading strategies, market microstructure and financial instruments to identify trading opportunities. 

• Building stochastic models to determine the fair value of financial derivatives. 

• Combining quantitative analysis and high-performance implementation to ensure the efficiency and accuracy of pricing engines and libraries. 

• Seeking continuous improvement in everything you do. 

Find your niche in research 

We offer a range of opportunities in our research teams. During the training program, we will work with you to ensure that you’re placed in the most suitable role for you. Below are examples of the various roles available. 

• Read Dom’s story to discover how he uses cutting-edge statistical and machine learning algorithms to develop profitable live trading strategies in the Delta 1 team. 

• Read Noah’s story to discover how he leverages large datasets to create underlying models that price our financial instruments in the Options Pricing team. 

• Read Rob’s story to discover how he develops and tests hypotheses that drive improvements in the execution, speed and success of our trading systems, in the Performance Research team. 

What you’ll get 

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Driven by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the most complex problems in the financial markets.  

In addition, you’ll receive: 

• A performance-based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool, fostering a truly collaborative environment. 

• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals. 

• Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities. 

• Gym membership, plus weekly in-house chair massages. 

• Daily breakfast, lunch and an in-house barista. 

• Regular social events.

Who you are 

• Final year university student or recent graduate. 

• An Australian or New Zealand Citizen, Australian Permanent Resident or able to provide evidence of full working rights. 

• Studying a quantitative or technically focused degree, such as Maths, Statistics, Physics, Electrical / Mechatronic / Software Engineering, Computer Science, Applied / Quantitative Finance or Econometrics. 

• Inquisitive and critical thinker, who enjoys creating innovative, new solutions. 

• Have a passion for quantitative problems and working in collaborative, dynamic environments. 

• Pragmatic and focused on outcomes, and can communicate technical concepts well. 

• Enjoy utilising technology, programming or maths in your daily life to solve problems. 

• Possess programming experience in any language (C, C++, Python, Basic, JAVA, etc.). 

Diversity statement  

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion, and it is hardwired through every stage of our hiring process. We encourage applications from candidates from any and all backgrounds, and we welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process to ensure that you can best demonstrate your abilities. 

Questions? Check out our internship and graduate FAQs or get in touch with the team at: careers@optiver.com.au.  

Who We Are

Optiver is a global market maker founded in Amsterdam, with offices in London, Chicago, Austin, New York, Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei and Mumbai. Established in 1986, today we are a leading liquidity provider, with close to 2,000 employees in offices around the world, united in our commitment to improve the market through competitive pricing, execution and risk management. By providing liquidity on multiple exchanges across the world in various financial instruments we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets. We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, at our own risk, trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign currencies.

Optiver’s Sydney office is one of the primary players within Asian markets, trading a range of products. Established in 1996, we're an active participant on the Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Japan exchanges, and act as Optiver’s APAC head office. 

What You’ll Do

We’re building out our Data Reliability & Quality Engineering function in Sydney, the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) arm of our global data platform.

This team ensures that data is reliable, accurate and available when it’s needed. You’ll sit at the intersection of data engineering, operations and market data, monitoring critical pipelines, improving system resilience and building automation to detect and prevent issues before they impact trading or research.

You’ll play a key role in shaping how we ingest and deliver trusted, high-quality data at scale, supporting a growing, data-driven global business. In this role, you will:

• Monitor and optimize the performance and stability of data pipelines to meet SLAs.

• Design and maintain data quality tests for accuracy, consistency and completeness.

• Investigate data incidents, perform root-cause analysis and implement preventive measures.

• Apply SRE principles to enhance reliability, alerting and recovery mechanisms.

• Develop automation and tooling to reduce manual intervention and improve scalability.

• Collaborate with data engineers, researchers and market data teams to align reliability goals with business priorities.

Who You Are

• 2+ years of experience in data engineering, site reliability engineering (SRE) or data operations.

• Proficient in SQL, ETL processes and at least one programming language (Python, Scala or C++).

• Strong focus on automation, system resilience and continuous improvement.

• Passionate about data quality, observability and performance optimization.

• Structured and methodical in problem-solving, with strong debugging skills.

• Excellent communication skills and a collaborative, proactive mindset.

Nice to have:

• Experience with Databricks, data observability platforms or distributed/cloud-based data systems.

• Familiarity with alerting and monitoring tools (e.g. Grafana, Prometheus, Airflow or similar).

• Exposure to financial data pipelines or low-latency trading environments.

What You’ll Get

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Driven by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle some of the most complex problems in the financial markets.

In return for your expertise, you will have access to a range of Optiver perks, including:

• A performance-based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry.

• The chance to work alongside diverse and intelligent peers in a rewarding environment.

• Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities.

• Daily breakfast, lunch and an in-house barista.

• Gym membership plus weekly in-house chair massages.

• Regular social events, including a company trip every two years.

If you’re passionate about supporting reliable, high-performance data systems and want your work to directly impact trading outcomes, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply now and help us build the next evolution of Optiver’s global data platform.

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process.

Questions? Get in touch with the recruitment team at careers@optiver.com.au

WHO WE ARE

Optiver is a global market maker founded in Amsterdam, with offices in London, Chicago, Austin, New York, Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei and Mumbai. Established in 1986, today we are a leading liquidity provider, with close to 2,000 employees in offices around the world, united in our commitment to improve the market through competitive pricing, execution and risk management. By providing liquidity on multiple exchanges across the world in various financial instruments we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets. We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, at our own risk, trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign currencies.

Optiver’s Sydney office is one of the primary players within Asian markets, trading a range of products. Established in 1996, we're an active participant on the Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Japan exchanges, and act as Optiver’s APAC head office. 

WHAT YOU'LL DO

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Software Engineers to join our dynamic team. In this hands-on role, you’ll design, build, and deploy sophisticated agents that orchestrate data, workflows, and decisions across the firm. You’ll own the full lifecycle—from rapid prototyping through production rollout—while always tying technical choices back to clear business outcomes. If you can translate strategy into code, measure impact in dollars (or hours saved), and thrive in a fast-moving environment, we want to meet you.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and develop robust AI agents using Python.

• Integrate AI solutions with existing enterprise systems.

• Understand the landscape of 3rd party models, their strengths and weaknesses.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand user needs and deliver effective agents.

• Maintain a platform for the evaluation of agents.

• Produce high-quality, unit-tested code and uphold consistent style and documentation through code reviews and CI/CD practices.

• Troubleshoot and debug AI systems to ensure optimal performance.

WHO YOU ARE

• Bachelorʼs degree in Computer Science, AI, or related field.

• Deep familiarity with Python 3.x, including advanced features (asyncio, type hints, context managers).

• Solid understanding of software design patterns, object‐oriented design, and modular architecture.

• Excellent knowledge of Python, common AI/ML libraries and integration with 3rd party services.

• Some commercial or open source experience in developing AI agents with any of the well-known services.

• Experience with enterprise tools such as Git, Confluence and Slack.

• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in a dynamic environment

WHAT YOU'LL GET

• The chance to work alongside best-in-class professionals.
• Competitive remuneration, including an attractive bonus structure and additional leave entitlements.
• Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities.
• Gym membership plus weekly in-house chair massages.
• Daily breakfast, lunch and an in-house barista.
• Regular social events including an annual company trip.
• Guided relocation, a competitive relocation package and visa sponsorship where necessary.

DIVERSITY STATEMENT

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion, and it is hardwired through every stage of our hiring process. We encourage applications from candidates from any and all backgrounds, and we welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process to ensure that you can best demonstrate your abilities.

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Optiver is seeking an experienced Fixed Income ETF Trader to join our D1 Trading Team in Sydney, as we expand our ETF coverage to include fixed-income products. You will be part of a high-impact, collaborative team, where you’ll be responsible for establishing and running this new desk.

What you'll do:

• Build and run the Fixed Income ETF desk, extending our existing equity-ETF presence.
• Quote, execute, and manage risk in fixed-income ETFs across APAC - both on-screen and OTC.
• Collaborate with quants, engineers, and other traders to identify and capture trading opportunities.

What you'll get:

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Driven by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle some of the most complex problems in the financial markets.

In return for your expertise, you will have access to a range of Optiver perks, including:

• A performance-based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams, and offices into a global profit pool, fostering a truly collaborative environment.
• The chance to work alongside diverse and intelligent peers in a rewarding environment.
• Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities.
• Daily breakfast, lunch and an in-house barista.
• Gym membership plus weekly in-house chair massages.
• Regular social events, including a company trip every two years.
• Guided relocation, a competitive relocation package and visa sponsorship where necessary.

Who you are:

• 3+ years trading experience in ETFs and/or Fixed Income within APAC; China Fixed Income exposure highly valued.
• Deep knowledge of bond-market structure and how ETFs interact with the primary market.
• Solid grasp of Fixed Income-ETF valuation, basket construction, liquidity sourcing and creation/redemption mechanics.
• Proficiency in Python (or similar) for data analysis; SQL or C++ a plus.
• Clear, concise communication style; ability to work closely with quants, technologists and external counterparties.

Diversity statement

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process.

Questions? Get in touch with the recruitment team at careers@optiver.com.au.

Are you interested in financial markets, AI and computer programming? Do you enjoy solving complex problems, building tools, automation, and analysis? If you like the idea of working in a fast-paced and collaborative environment, then you might be the next Trading Analyst at Optiver!

We are looking for an experienced and talented AI specialist Trading Analyst to join our Trading Analyst team. You will bring your technical expertise to enhance the Trading Analyst team whilst also working closely with trading, research and developer teams to solve complex trading problems, analyse the markets we trade and the strategies we use to generate innovate trading ideas. In addition, you will build tools and systems to evolve the team’s trading and operations.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Design, build and deploy AI-powered agents that augment traders’ decision-making, automate repeatable workflows, and enable our trading to operate more efficiently and at greater scale.
• Develop intelligent automation for traders via scripting APIs, embedding AI agents directly into day-to-day trading workflows.
• Drive data insights by owning and evolving data pipelines to analyse market behaviour and inform systematic and discretionary trading strategies.
• Create intuitive dashboards and visualisation tools (using Dash, Excel/VBA, Svelte, etc.) that deliver real-time analytics, directly support trading decisions on the floor, generate actionable insights and track key performance indicators.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with traders, researchers, developers and external partners to continuously improve and optimise our trading strategies and operational processes.

WHO YOU ARE:

• 3+ years’ experience in an equivalent role highly desirable
• A strong quantitative background (a degree in math, science, technology, actuarial studies, or finance)
• Proficient in Python, SQL, and Excel/VBA
• Strong interest and experience with AI
• Strong numerical and problem-solving skills
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• A demonstrated passion for trading
• Willingness to learn new technologies, navigate frequent change, and contribute to a high-performance environment

What you'll get:

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be surrounded by curious thinkers and problem solvers. Driven by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle some of the most complex problems in the financial markets.

In return for your expertise, you will have access to a range of Optiver perks, including:

• A performance-based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams, and offices into a global profit pool, fostering a truly collaborative environment.
• The chance to work alongside diverse and intelligent peers in a rewarding environment.
• Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities.
• Daily breakfast, lunch and an in-house barista.
• Gym membership plus weekly in-house chair massages.
• Regular social events, including a company trip every two years.
• Guided relocation, a competitive relocation package and visa sponsorship where necessary.

Diversity statement

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process.

Questions? Get in touch with the recruitment team at careers@optiver.com.au

Who we are

Optiver is a global market maker founded in Amsterdam, with offices in London, Chicago, Austin, New York, Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei and Mumbai. Established in 1986, today we are a leading liquidity provider, with close to 2,000 employees in offices around the world, united in our commitment to improve the market through competitive pricing, execution and risk management. By providing liquidity on multiple exchanges across the world in various financial instruments we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets. We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, at our own risk, trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign currencies.

Optiver’s Sydney office is one of the primary players within Asian markets, trading a range of products. Established in 1996, we're an active participant on the Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Japan exchanges, and act as Optiver’s APAC head office. 

What you’ll do

As a Principal Engineer, you will play a key role in building and evolving Optiver’s next-generation data platform that supports research and real-time trading.

The platform spans orchestration, storage, access and governance of data at scale, enabling engineers, researchers and traders to work efficiently with high-quality data.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Designing and developing scalable data platform components (e.g. orchestration, storage formats, metadata and streaming systems)
• Working across the full lifecycle: problem understanding, design, implementation, testing, deployment and monitoring
• Contributing to architectural decisions that improve performance, scalability and reliability
• Standardising data ingestion and access patterns, including schema management, lineage, permissions and auditing
• Collaborating with stakeholders across engineering, research, trading, SRE and security to deliver impactful solutions
• Driving high-quality engineering practices, including code quality, testing and observability
• Partnering with global teams to align on shared patterns and platforms

This is a hands-on role with meaningful contribution to system design and production code

Who you are

Optiver needs our next Principal Engineer to have:

• 7+ years experience as a Software Engineer delivering production platforms.

• Strong experience with distributed systems & reliability fundamentals, including partitioning, replication, consistency/availability tradeoffs.

• Expertise with one or more of Python/C++/Java/Rust. Solid API and system design skills.

• Data platform fundamentals, including batch/stream processing, table formats, object storage, SQL.

• Understanding of security and governance, such as encryption, authentication, and access control.

• Practical experience with streaming and batch data (e.g., Kafka + Schema Registry).

• Experience making architectural decisions on IT solutions, system design & implementation.

• Excellent stakeholder communication.

What you'll get

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Driven by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle some of the most complex problems in the financial markets.

In return for your expertise, you will have access to a range of Optiver perks, including:

• A performance-based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool, fostering a truly collaborative environment.

• The chance to work alongside diverse and intelligent peers in a rewarding environment.

• Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities.

• Daily breakfast, lunch and an in-house barista.

• Gym membership plus weekly in-house chair massages.

• Regular social events, including a company trip every two years.

• Guided relocation, a competitive relocation package and visa sponsorship where necessary
  
  

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process.

At Optiver we are hiring the Head of Infrastructure (APAC) — a senior engineering leader and the primary regional partner to the APAC CTO and Global Head of Infrastructure. You will lead APAC infrastructure engineering capability: setting regional priorities, validating regional architectures, and ensuring the region delivers resilient, reliable, low-latency infrastructure.

This role requires both engineering pedigree and strong operational judgement. You will set regional priorities and outcomes, and you will guide, shape and assure delivery from globally managed and local teams so those outcomes are met. You will influence and validate technical designs to ensure they are fit for APAC constraints, hold teams and partners accountable for execution, and orchestrate escalations where needed. Above all, you will translate firm and APAC priorities into delivered outcomes while maintaining stakeholder confidence — making pragmatic trade-offs between latency, resilience, risk, cost and time-to-market.

WHY THIS ROLE MATTERS

In HFT, infrastructure is a competitive edge — small gains in latency, reliability or time to market directly affect success. Done well, the Head of Infrastructure (APAC) ensures regional engineering delivers the resilient platforms that improve execution, reduce risk and enable rapid delivery: you’ll set regional priorities, convene and hold teams and suppliers to account, and assure technical delivery (architectures, handoffs, major projects).

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Act as the APAC Infrastructure leader: own APAC outcomes, escalations, decisions and cross-team delivery while partnering with the APAC CTO and Global Head of Infrastructure.

• Ensure coherent regional delivery from globally managed teams: define and run the operating cadence, set and enforce SLAs/OKRs, remove cross-team blockers, and coordinate delivery across time zones and geographies.

• Translate strategy into delivery: convert firm and APAC business priorities into clear infrastructure outcomes, term plans and measurable delivery commitments.

• Be the escalation owner: own APAC-level incident and change escalation, shape postmortems and remediation, and ensure robust assurance over change & configuration controls and site resilience.

• Manage the APAC operating rhythm & org leadership: set cadence, delegate effectively, hold leaders accountable, and continuously improve the region’s practices so work becomes repeatable and handover to BAU is clear.

• Partner with other regional leads: work with EU, US and other regional leads to converge regional processes into global ones, share best practices, highlight regional constraints, and ensure global standards and tooling are fit-for-purpose in APAC.

• Mentor and develop senior technical talent: coach senior engineers and engineering managers on leadership, operations and communication; promote psychological safety and an engineering culture of ownership and long-term thinking.

• Build and maintain durable stakeholder relationships: engage business, engineering and global counterparts; provide executive-ready communication of status, risk, decisions and asks.

• Take responsibility for regional talent strategy: identify leadership and performance gaps and define regional headcount and senior-hire priorities in partnership with global leads and the HRBP. Global teams will continue to own their pipelines and bench development; you will provide regional assurance, influence hiring prioritisation, and step in to recruit or accelerate capability where regional delivery requires it.

ABOUT THE TEAM

The APAC Infrastructure function operates across Sydney, Shanghai, Mumbai, Hong Kong, Japan, and is responsible for the infrastructure foundations we build and deploy our trading and non-trading environments on. You will work with globally managed engineering teams, APAC infrastructure leaders, and partner extensively with global infrastructure teams.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• Strong engineering pedigree: hands-on technical experience and proven architecture/engineering leadership - preferably in infrastructure engineering and/or latency-sensitive systems.

• Experience leading engineering functions at Head/Director level, defining technical roadmaps, establishing standards and growing engineering teams.

• Operational judgement: able to balance engineering quality with operational reliability and business timelines.

• Executive-level stakeholder skills and the ability to represent the region in global technical discussions.

• Experience operating in a matrix organisation and coordinating delivery from globally managed and highly distributed teams across multiple countries and timezones.

• A builder mindset: a record of driving standardisation, automation and turning bespoke solutions into durable engineering practices.

• Willingness to travel: this role requires approximately 4 weeks of travel per year across the US, Europe, and APAC.

WHAT YOU'LL GET

• A performance-based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool, fostering a truly collaborative environment.

• The chance to work alongside diverse and intelligent peers in a rewarding environment.

• Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities.

• Daily breakfast, lunch and an in-house barista.

• Gym membership plus weekly in-house chair massages.

• Regular social events, including a company trip every two years.

• Guided relocation, a competitive relocation package and visa sponsorship where necessary.

DIVERSITY STATEMENT

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process.

Questions? Get in touch with the recruitment team at careers@optiver.com.au.

Who we are 

Optiver is a global market maker founded in Amsterdam, with offices in London, Chicago, Austin, New York, Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei and Mumbai. Established in 1986, today we are a leading liquidity provider, with close to 2,000 employees in offices around the world, united in our commitment to improve the market through competitive pricing, execution and risk management. By providing liquidity on multiple exchanges across the world in various financial instruments we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets. We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, at our own risk, trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign currencies. 

What you’ll do 

We are seeking a hands-on Information Security Operations Lead who combines deep security knowledge with strong coaching, mentoring, and leadership capabilities. You will guide the team through operational challenges, foster their development, and ensure the ongoing integrity of Optiver’s security operations. 

Reporting directly to the Global Head of Information Security this role will work in conjunction with the other regional security leads with your focus extending beyond individual technical execution—you will help shape the team’s roadmap, coach engineers through complex challenges, and drive alignment with global security objectives.  

  Main responsibilities include: 

• Build and lead a high-performance security engineers and analysts, including managing performance, career development and delivery. 

• Oversee day-to-day security operations, ensuring efficient triage, investigation, escalation, and resolution of security events 

• Continuously refine operational processes and partner with global security teams to drive alignment in processes, standards, and tooling. 

• Lead the team during high-severity incidents, coordinating efforts across engineering, business, and global stakeholders. 

• Work with engineers to identify automation opportunities, reduce toil, and improve detection and response capabilities. 

• Act as the primary point of contact for operational security topics within APAC and build strong partnerships with all stakeholders. 

• Contribute to the long-term strategy and roadmap for global security operations. 

Who you are 

Optiver needs our next APAC Information Security Operations Lead to have: 

• Leading or mentoring security engineers, SOC analysts, incident responders, or security operations teams. 

• Broad experience with EDR, SIEM, vulnerability management, identity security, and cloud security tooling. 

• Experience defining and maturing operational processes: alerting, triage, incident response, playbooks, tooling, and escalation workflows. 

• Understanding of SOC workflows, detection tuning/engineering, playbook development, and operational runbooks. 

• Experience leading or coordinating incident response efforts across cross-functional teams. 

• Demonstrated experience building high-performing, collaborative teams in fast-paced environments. 

• Championing a culture of continuous improvement, and operational excellence. 

• Cloud security (AWS + M365), identity management (Entra ID, SSO, conditional access), and data protection desirable. 

• Automation with Python or PowerShell desirable. 

What you’ll get 

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Driven by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle some of the most complex problems in the financial markets. 

In return for your expertise, you will have access to a range of Optiver perks, including: 

• A performance-based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry. 

• The chance to work alongside diverse and intelligent peers in a rewarding environment. 

• Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities. 

• Daily breakfast, lunch and an in-house barista. 

• Gym membership plus weekly in-house chair massages. 

• Regular social events, including a company trip every two years. 

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process. 

Questions? Get in touch with the recruitment team at careers@optiver.com.au. 

WHO WE ARE

Optiver is a global market maker founded in Amsterdam, with offices in London, Chicago, Austin, New York, Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei and Mumbai. Established in 1986, today we are a leading liquidity provider, with close to 2,000 employees in offices around the world, united in our commitment to improve the market through competitive pricing, execution and risk management. By providing liquidity on multiple exchanges across the world in various financial instruments we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets. We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, at our own risk, trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign currencies.

Optiver’s Sydney office is one of the primary players within Asian markets, trading a range of products. Established in 1996, we're an active participant on the Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, India, Taiwan and Japan exchanges, and act as Optiver’s APAC head office. 

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Middle Office provides independent control of trading activities and is responsible for validating the trading balance sheet and ensuring the accuracy of P&L reporting. The team supports the business by providing timely and accurate information and ensuring that operational requirements are optimised. Middle Office provides the link to our (outsourced) back-office teams, and internally works closely with Trading, Risk, Compliance, Financial Control, and Management Reporting. The essence of this role requires:

• Accountability for the execution and timely reporting of daily P&L though validation and ownership of the trading balance sheet, trading position reporting, in-line with global policy
• Ownership of the month end Trading ledger process, ensuring accounting in accordance with IFRS pronouncements
• Creating simplified reporting to understand and explain desk trading strategies
• Applying your knowledge of technology to create solutions for the monitoring, reporting and accounting of financial instruments
• Be the primary escalation point for the Middle Office Team to advise, train and assist the Team in delivering workflow efficiencies
• Guiding and supporting junior team members
• Identifying and initiating small projects to improve efficiencies
• Supporting Middle Office team with ad hoc improvement requests
• Ensuring operational optimisation for new trading initiatives

WHO YOU ARE

• Information Technology, Data Science or related degree and/or Finance or related degree with strong technology and data capabilities
• Australian citizen or permanent resident
• 3+ years in creating and delivering Technology based solutions, with additional experience in Data Science or AI solutions desirable
• Strong understanding of coding and creating automated solutions
• Proficient in Databricks, Python, SQL: AI Agent development experience desirable
• A continuous improvement mindset and a desire to create scalable solutions
• Self-Starter with strong analytical, problem-solving and communication skills

WHAT YOU’LL GET

• The chance to work alongside diverse and intelligent peers in a rewarding environment
• Competitive remuneration, including an attractive bonus structure and additional leave entitlements
• Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities
• Gym membership plus weekly in-house chair massages
• Daily breakfast, lunch and an in-house barista
• Regular social events including a company trip every two year

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process.

Questions? Get in touch with the recruitment team at careers@optiver.com.au

WHO WE ARE

Optiver is a global market maker founded in Amsterdam, with offices in London, Chicago, Austin, New York, Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei and Mumbai. Established in 1986, today we are a leading liquidity provider, with close to 2,000 employees in offices around the world, united in our commitment to improve the market through competitive pricing, execution and risk management. By providing liquidity on multiple exchanges across the world in various financial instruments we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets. We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, at our own risk, trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign currencies.

Optiver’s Sydney office is one of the primary players within Asian markets, trading a range of products. Established in 1996, we're an active participant on the Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Japan exchanges, and act as Optiver’s APAC head office. 

WHAT YOU'LL DO

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced AI Engineer to join our dynamic team. In this hands-on role, you’ll design, build, and deploy sophisticated agents that orchestrate data, workflows, and decisions across the firm. You’ll own the full lifecycle—from rapid prototyping through production rollout—while always tying technical choices back to clear business outcomes. If you can translate strategy into code, measure impact in dollars (or hours saved), and thrive in a fast-moving environment, we want to meet you.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and develop robust AI agents using Python.

• Integrate AI solutions with existing enterprise systems.

• Understand the landscape of 3rd party models, their strengths and weaknesses.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand user needs and deliver effective agents.

• Maintain a platform for the evaluation of agents.

• Produce high-quality, unit-tested code and uphold consistent style and documentation through code reviews and CI/CD practices.

• Troubleshoot and debug AI systems to ensure optimal performance.

WHO YOU ARE

• Bachelorʼs degree in Computer Science, AI, or related field.

• Deep familiarity with Python 3.x, including advanced features (asyncio, type hints, context managers).

• Solid understanding of software design patterns, object‐oriented design, and modular architecture.

• Excellent knowledge of Python, common AI/ML libraries and integration with 3rd party services.

• Some commercial or open source experience in developing AI agents with any of the well-known services.

• Experience with enterprise tools such as Git, Confluence and Slack.

• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in a dynamic environment

WHAT YOU'LL GET

• The chance to work alongside best-in-class professionals.
• Competitive remuneration, including an attractive bonus structure and additional leave entitlements.
• Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities.
• Gym membership plus weekly in-house chair massages.
• Daily breakfast, lunch and an in-house barista.
• Regular social events including an annual company trip.
• Guided relocation, a competitive relocation package and visa sponsorship where necessary.

DIVERSITY STATEMENT

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion, and it is hardwired through every stage of our hiring process. We encourage applications from candidates from any and all backgrounds, and we welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process to ensure that you can best demonstrate your abilities.

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Optiver is hiring an Operational Risk Analyst in Sydney to strengthen second-line oversight across our APAC business. You will work with Trading, Technology and other teams to identify operational risk, challenge control weaknesses, review incidents and help first-line teams use risk data more effectively.

This is a role with real exposure. You will support a fast, automated trading business and help improve how we define risk appetite, monitor risk indicators and escalate issues that fall outside tolerance. You will also use data analytics and AI to strengthen operational risk management as the business grows.

Who we are

Optiver is a global market maker founded in Amsterdam, with offices in London, Chicago, Austin, New York, Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei and Mumbai. Established in 1986, today we are a leading liquidity provider, with close to 2,000 employees in offices around the world, united in our commitment to improve the market through competitive pricing, execution and risk management. By providing liquidity on multiple exchanges across the world in various financial instruments, we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets. We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, at our own risk, trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign currencies.

Optiver’s Sydney office is one of the primary players in Asian markets, trading a range of products. Established in 1996, we're an active participant on multiple APAC exchanges, and act as Optiver’s APAC head office.

What you’ll do

You will help improve our risk and control framework across APAC. That includes stronger risk identification, clearer escalation, better incident review and more disciplined remediation.

• review operational incidents and near misses, identify themes and track follow-up actions

• challenge incident reporting, escalation and remediation where risk sits outside agreed appetite

• analyse operational data to spot patterns, emerging risks and weak signals across trading and technology

• support control assurance work across APAC, ensuring reviews are fit for purpose, key controls are tested in depth and control owners deliver on agreed actions

• help turn risk appetite into practical indicators, thresholds and escalation criteria

• produce clear reporting and dashboards for first-line teams and senior management

• partner with Trading and Technology to embed controls and risk signals into processes and automated systems, reducing manual effort and improving early detection

• while based in Sydney and focused on APAC, work with stakeholders across offices to improve operational risk practices globally

Who you are

You should have a strong analytical and technical foundation, sound judgment and the confidence to challenge constructively.

We are looking for someone with:

• 3+ years of experience in operational risk, audit or a related risk role

• exposure to trading, market infrastructure or technology risk in financial services

• a degree in finance, economics, STEM, business, accounting, risk or a similar field

• the ability to build strong relationships, influence stakeholders and challenge the status quo constructively

• strong problem-solving skills and a practical approach to controls and risk management

• the ability to work with data and turn analysis into clear conclusions

• the judgment to form views in a fast-moving environment, often with incomplete information

• strong written and verbal communication skills

• attention to detail

What you’ll get

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Driven by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle some of the most complex problems in the financial markets.

In return for your expertise, you will have access to a range of Optiver perks, including:

• A performance-based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool, fostering a truly collaborative environment.

• The chance to work alongside diverse and intelligent peers in a rewarding environment.

• Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities.

• Daily breakfast, lunch and an in-house barista.

• Gym membership plus weekly in-house chair massages.

• Regular social events, including a company trip every two years.

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process.

Questions? Get in touch with the recruitment team at careers@optiver.com.au.

As our Graduate Quantitative Trader, you’ll develop cutting-edge strategies that directly impact and improve the global financial markets. You’ll manage a trading book as part of a team of expert traders and work alongside researchers and engineers to design, develop and enhance trading strategies, fully immersing in the world of market making.  

If you have a pragmatic mindset, logical problem-solving skills and mathematical precision, you are the ideal candidate for this role. Join us and be a part of a dynamic team where you can make a meaningful impact. 

Please note, our formal applications for Graduate opportunities are currently closed. We are seeking expressions of interest for our 2026 campaign and would love to hear from you! Please complete this application to join our 'Talent Community' so that we can keep you up to date with suitable upcoming vacancies. 

What you’ll do 

Your onboarding and training 

Kickstart your training in the Optiver Academy, our four-week global training program in Amsterdam. Here you’ll learn from our dedicated in-house education team and other industry experts through a series of lectures, coursework and collaborative project work.  

Following this, the comprehensive training program in Sydney will equip you with the knowledge needed to make an impact from the moment you join your trading desk. You’ll learn the intricacies of option theory and apply your knowledge in a simulated trading environment, so that you can hit the trading floor with confidence at the end of the nine-week program. We believe a realistic hands-on experience is the best way to learn, and that is exactly what we provide. 

After joining one of the teams on the floor, you’ll trade and gain a deeper insight into the different products and trading strategies within the team. Our education team will continue to provide training through a curated series of lectures over your first 12 months as a graduate trader. 

Your responsibilities  

From your first day on the trading floor, you’ll have the autonomy and responsibility to make decisions that create an immediate impact. Every day will present you with new and interesting challenges to solve, and it’s up to you and your team to drive our success through Optiver’s market-leading technology-stack. Key responsibilities may include: 

• Trading, while constantly looking for creative quantitative solutions to real-world events, ahead of the competition. 

• Developing robust pricing models and algorithms to offer the best price on the products you trade. 

• Building tools, conducting analysis and leading projects that take your team’s trading strategies to the next level. 

• Working collectively with our talented team of traders, engineers and researchers, to solve complex problems and remain at the forefront of the industry. 

• Seeking continuous improvement in everything you do. 

Find your niche in trading 

We offer a range of opportunities in our trading teams. In your application, select the role that appeals to you the most, and we'll work with you to ensure the role is most suitable for you. Below are examples of the different roles available. 

• Read Will’s story to discover how he leverages the data available to make informed trading decisions in the Index Options team. 

• Read Jason’s story to discover how he uses cutting-edge statistical models and machine learning algorithms to optimise our autotraders in the Delta 1 team. 

• Read Matt’s story to discover how he works closely with external counterparties to provide prices, liquidity and negotiate large trades in the Institutional Trading team.  

What you’ll get 

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Driven by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the most complex problems in the financial markets.  

In addition, you’ll receive: 

• A performance-based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool, fostering a truly collaborative environment. 

• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals. 

• Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities. 

• Gym membership, plus weekly in-house chair massages. 

• Daily breakfast, lunch and an in-house barista. 

• Regular social events

Who you are 

• Final year university student or recent graduate. 
• An Australian or New Zealand Citizen, Australian Permanent Resident or able to provide evidence of full working rights. 
• Lateral thinker, with a passion for quantitative problems and working in collaborative, dynamic environments. 
• Holds superior logical reasoning skills. 
• Experience with programming or scripting in Python is a plus. 

Diversity statement  

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion, and it is hardwired through every stage of our hiring process. We encourage applications from candidates from any and all backgrounds, and we welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process to ensure that you can best demonstrate your abilities. 

Questions? Check out our internship and graduate FAQs or get in touch with the team at careers@optiver.com.au.  

Who we are 

Optiver is a global market maker founded in Amsterdam, with offices in London, Chicago, Austin, New York, Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei and Mumbai. Established in 1986, today we are a leading liquidity provider, with close to 2,000 employees in offices around the world, united in our commitment to improve the market through competitive pricing, execution and risk management. By providing liquidity on multiple exchanges across the world in various financial instruments we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets. We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, at our own risk, trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign currencies. 

What you’ll do 

The Business Information Security Officer (BISO) function covers a broad scope. As the team is small, work is shared and redistributed based on demand and skillset, so you will have the opportunity to contribute across domains when required. We are specifically looking for strong depth in governance, risk, and awareness; this is where you will spend most of your time.You will help maintain clear oversight of information security risk and support early risk signaling across the organisation. This is a hands-on individual contributor role in a high-performance environment. You will report to the team lead of the Global Business Information Security Officer, based in Amsterdam, and partner closely with colleagues across multiple time zones. 

Main responsibilities include: 

• Establish, maintain, and improve information security policies and procedures that reflect regulatory requirements and how the business operates in practice.
• Translate regulatory, legal, and risk requirements into clear internal expectations and documented risk considerations.
• Maintain and evolve the risk register, support structured risk reviews, and surface emerging risks early with clear, structured analysis.
• Define learning objectives and design security training and phishing campaigns aligned to policy and risk themes.
• Prepare structured input for periodic reporting.

Who you are 

Optiver needs our next Information Security Officer to have: 

• 4–7 years of relevant experience in information security risk or compliance, ideally in an in-house environment.
• Solid understanding of information security, including non-technical domains such as governance, policy, awareness, and behavioral risk.
• Experience establishing, maintaining, or improving information security policies and procedures in a practical business context.
• Experience translating regulatory or legal requirements into clear internal expectations and documentation.
• Strong writing skills, with the ability to express complex topics clearly and concisely.
• Experience maintaining a risk register and supporting risk reviews.
• Experience designing effective security awareness activities (training content, phishing scenarios, follow-ups).
• Comfortable using modern tooling, including AI, to improve speed and quality.

What you’ll get 

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Driven by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle some of the most complex problems in the financial markets. 

In return for your expertise, you will have access to a range of Optiver perks, including: 

• A performance-based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry.
• The chance to work alongside diverse and intelligent peers in a rewarding environment.
• Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities.
• Daily breakfast, lunch and an in-house barista.
• Gym membership plus weekly in-house chair massages.
• Regular social events, including a company trip every two years. 

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process. 

Questions? Get in touch with the recruitment team at careers@optiver.com.au. 

As our Quantitative Research Intern, you’ll spend your summer delving into complex, data-driven problems at one of the world’s leading tech-driven trading firms. Under the guidance and mentorship of industry experts, you’ll apply your critical mindset and strong technical skills to optimise the models that drive Optiver’s innovative trading strategies.  

Through a mix of trading lectures, coursework and hands-on project experience, you’ll have deepened your understanding of the quantitative trading industry and mastered the practical skills needed to drive our trading success by the end of the 8-week internship. Plus, if you’ve excelled over the summer, you’ll receive an offer to return as a Graduate Quantitative Researcher. 

What you’ll do 

Led by our in-house education team that consists of former traders and engineers, you will complete a curated series of lectures and coursework on trading fundamentals, covering topics such as options pricing, financial markets, trading strategies and cutting-edge technology.  

Then, you will join one of our research teams and be paired with a mentor, applying your recently acquired knowledge to real-world scenarios that contribute towards our trading success. Some of the topics you could be working on, include: 

• Using statistical models and machine learning to develop trading algorithms. 

• Leveraging big data technologies to analyse high-frequency trading strategies, market microstructure, and financial instruments to identify trading opportunities. 

• Building stochastic models to determine the fair value of financial derivatives. 

• Combining quantitative analysis and high-performance implementation to ensure the efficiency and accuracy of pricing engines and libraries. 

Find your niche in research 

During the internship, you will gain exposure to the various opportunities that are available in our research teams. Discover some of the teams below.  

• Read Noah’s story to discover how he leverages large datasets to create underlying models that price our financial instruments in the Options Pricing team. 

• Read Rob’s story to discover how he develops and tests hypotheses that drive improvements in the execution, speed and success of our trading systems, in the Performance Research team. 

What you’ll get 

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Driven by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the most complex problems in the financial markets.  

In addition, you’ll receive: 

• A highly competitive remuneration package. 

• Optiver-covered flights and accommodation for the duration of the internship. 

• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals. 

• Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities. 

• Gym membership, plus weekly in-house chair massages. 

• Daily breakfast, lunch and in-house barista. 

• Regular social events. 

Who you are 

• A penultimate university student. If you are a pre-penultimate university student, discover our 2026 FutureFocus program. 

• An Australian or New Zealand Citizen, Australian Permanent Resident or able to provide evidence of full working rights. 

• Studying a quantitative or technically focused degree, such as Maths, Statistics, Physics, Electrical / Mechatronic / Software Engineering, Computer Science, Applied / Quantitative Finance or Econometrics. 

• Inquisitive and critical thinker, who enjoys creating innovative, new solutions. 

• Have a passion for quantitative problems and working in collaborative, dynamic environments. 

• Pragmatic, focused on outcomes and can communicate technical concepts well. 

• Enjoys utilising technology, programming, or maths in your daily life to solve problems. 

• Possess programming experience in any language (C, C++, Python, Basic, JAVA, etc.). 

 Diversity statement  

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds, and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process to ensure that you can best demonstrate your abilities. 

Questions? Get in touch with the team at careers@optiver.com.au.  

We accept one application per role per year. If you have previously applied to this position during this season and were unsuccessful, you may reapply when the next recruitment season begins in 2027.
We also ask that you apply to one role at a time, selecting your preferred opportunity. We will only consider candidates for one role at any given time.