Join our Trading Technology team in Amsterdam, where you’ll build real-time data systems that directly support Optiver’s trading strategies and market insights. As a\ Quant Developer, you’ll focus on creating scalable, high-performance platforms for real-time analytics, enabling traders to make precise, data-driven decisions across various products. At Optiver, technology drives our approach to market-making—whether optimizing for low latency response times or processing massive data volumes with efficiency, even in extreme market conditions. This role offers the chance to tackle complex technical challenges in a dynamic environment, collaborating closely with traders and researchers to advance smarter, more effective trading practices that keep Optiver at the forefront of the industry.

Who we are

At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing 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. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.

What You’ll Do:

You’ll be focused on addressing complex challenges in real-time data analytics in high throughput data environments for trading. As a Senior Software Engineer in the Trading Technology team, you’ll develop and optimize scalable systems for data processing and analytics that handle vast volumes of market data. Your work will ensure low-latency data pipelines, high-throughput compute, and robust algorithms—essential for reliability and speed in our trading decision making

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop scalable, reliable data systems that support real-time analytics for trading and large-scale historical analysis

• Partner closely with traders and researchers to deliver actionable insights and meet dynamic data needs across ingestion, storage, and real-time processing

• Drive the development of our data lake and analytics frameworks, enabling immediate access to live and historical data

• Build real-time analytics capabilities to support rapid decision-making in trading operations

• Engineer for resilience and reliability, implementing automated recovery processes and safeguards for high-demand periods

Projects You Might Work On:

• Enhancing research frameworks to enable quick deployment of trading applications and strategy optimizations

• Expanding real-time analytics for high-frequency trading and predictive market insights

• Integrating machine learning models within data pipelines to improve predictive accuracy

Who You Are:

You’re a highly skilled engineer passionate about building sophisticated systems that drive data-driven trading decisions:

• 5+ years of experience in high-performance data systems and infrastructure

• Proficiency in C++ or Python, with a commitment to clean, maintainable code

• Strong understanding of operational excellence in areas like networking, database performance, and system resilience

• Experience with real-time analytics platforms

• Familiarity with big data tools and frameworks, such as Pandas, Polars, PyArrow, Kafka, PostgreSQL, and DeltaTable

• Background in trading or financial markets is a plus, but not required

WHAT YOU'LL GET:

• The chance to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries.
• Our performance based bonus structure is unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool fostering a truly collaborative environment to work in.

Alongside this you will get great secondary benefits such as 25 paid vacation days, fully paid first-class commuting expenses, training opportunities, discounts on health insurance, breakfast and lunch facilities, sports and leisure activities, Friday afternoon drinks and even weekly in-house chair massages.

Being highly international, we are accustomed to guiding expats through their relocation, offering competitive relocation packages and providing visa sponsorship where necessary.

HOW TO APPLY:

Apply directly via the form below. If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruitment team via our recruitment inquiry form.

Please note:

• We do not require any assistance from third-parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role

• We cannot accept applications via email’

DIVERSITY STATEMENT:

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.

We’re looking for a Performance & Growth Lead to define how our marketing efforts translate into measurable impact. This is not a hands-on execution role. You will define and lead performance strategies within the broader marketing direction, guide execution, and ensure we continuously improve outcomes across regions and channels, strengthening how marketing contributes to broader business outcomes and attracts and converts high-quality talent. We’re investing in how we show up to the world, to do that effectively; we need to be sharper in how we translate strategy into measurable impact. This role is central to making that happen.

WHAT YOU'LL DO 

Define performance strategy 

• Translate business and hiring priorities into a clear multi-channel growth approach 
• Define how channels contribute across the funnel (awareness → conversion)
• Define channel roles, investment logic, and optimisation frameworks
• Bring structure to how paid and organic efforts work together 

Own performance outcomes 

• Define and own global performance KPIs, with accountability for both volume and quality of results 
• Turn performance data into clear decisions and priorities, identifying and scaling opportunities for improvement across channels and regions 

Own execution quality (via teams and partners) 

• Set direction for investment, campaign approach, and optimisation, ensuring high-quality execution across paid channels  
• Raise capability and consistency across teams through clear standards, frameworks, and best practices 

Lead agencies

• Set direction for media and performance partners, challenging plans and holding agencies accountable for results 

Define measurement direction (with you) 

• Ensure performance is measured against meaningful business outcomes, partnering on tracking, dashboards, and data quality.
• Leverage performance insights to inform content, campaigns, and website optimisation

Drive consistency across regions

• Establish performance principles and guardrails, raising the standard of performance marketing across teams and regions

WHO YOU ARE

• 8 - 12 years in performance marketing, growth or demand generation 
• Strong experience across paid channels, with a strategic, not execution-only lens
• Proven track record of owning performance outcomes
• Experience leading agencies and driving execution through others
• Strong analytical thinking, you turn data into decisions, not just reports, with a solid understanding of measurement, tracking, attribution, and their inherent limitations
• Experience working across multiple markets or stakeholder groups
• You’re comfortable in environments where not everything is fully defined yet and you know how to bring structure without slowing things down.
• You are accountable for how campaigns are structured, optimised, and improved, and you stay close enough to the work to ensure quality
• You bring a commercial and marketing lens beyond martech or analytics infrastructure
• You actively lead and challenge agencies instead of managing them passive 

WHO WE ARE

At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing 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. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.

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. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the toughest 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.
• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 50 different countries.
• 25 paid vacation days in your first year, increasing to 30 from your second year onwards.
• Training opportunities, discounts on health insurance, and fully paid first-class commuting expenses.
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and dinner, world-class barista coffee, in-house physio and chair massages, organized sports and leisure activities, and Friday afternoon drinks.
• Training and continuous learning opportunities, including access to conferences and tech events.
• Competitive relocation packages and visa sponsorship where necessary for expats.

HOW TO APPLY

Apply directly via the form below. If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruitment team via our recruitment inquiry form.

Please note:

• We do not require any assistance from third-parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role
• We cannot accept applications via email

DIVERSITY STATEMENT

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.

The key to Optiver’s success as a leading market maker is our people. We place a strong focus on education and internal growth, making the Campus Recruitment team pivotal to the development of our Amsterdam and London operations. As a Campus Recruiter, you will be responsible for hiring into our Internship and Graduate programs, as well as attracting top talent to our early engagement initiatives. Have an innovative idea? You will have both the freedom and resources to make it happen – we believe in autonomy, ownership and providing a platform for everyone to make an impact. We know our best work is done together, so you’ll both collaborate with and potentially mentor other Campus Recruiters across our Amsterdam and London teams.

Please note: this role could be based in Amsterdam or London - please highlight your preference when you apply. If you have already applied for the Campus Recruiter role in Amsterdam or London, you do not need to submit a second application if you’re open to both locations.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

Our Recruitment teams are formed of specialists that work across our three key departments: Trading, Technology and Business Operations. The core focus of our Campus Recruiters is to identify, attract, and secure top talent from our target markets for our early careers programs and opportunities. To help us achieve our goals, your responsibilities will include:

• Building and maintaining strong relationships with top-tier universities and target student groups
• Planning and executing on-campus and in-house for students including delivering company presentations, attending career fairs and hosting in-house days
• Traveling across Europe as needed during peak seasons
• Developing innovative recruitment strategies supported by data-driven insights
• Proactively assessing and improving our current recruitment strategy
• Exercising your interviewing toolkit – combining accurate assessment with a top candidate experience
• Mentoring and supporting the development of your colleagues

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. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the toughest problems in the financial markets.

In addition, you’ll receive the relevant local benefits:

Amsterdam

• A performance-based bonus structure, enabling all of our employees to benefit from our global profit pool 
• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 50 different countries 
• 25 paid vacation days in your first year, increasing to 30 from your second year onwards
• Training opportunities, discounts on health insurance, and fully paid first-class commuting expenses 
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch, and dinner, world-class barista coffee, in-house physio and chair massages, organised sports and leisure activities, and Friday afternoon drinks

London

• A performance-based bonus structure, enabling all of our employees to benefits from our global profit pool 
• 27 paid vacation days plus all UK bank holidays 
• Daily breakfast and lunch, along with support on commuting expenses 
• Private medical insurance, pension scheme and ClassPass fitness membership 
• Training and continuous learning opportunities, including access to conferences and tech events 
• International transfer opportunities for global career growth 

WHO YOU ARE:

• Bachelor’s or Master's degree
• 2+ years of relevant or related experience (preferably in graduate/campus or other high-volume recruitment within the UK or EU market)
• Experience recruiting from the UK/broader EMEA markets is highly valued
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• Able to handle competing priorities and to work effectively in a challenging, fast-paced environment
• An appetite to utilize data to inform strategic thinking and decision-making
• Flexibility with regards to working hours, since events and traveling can take place during evenings and weekends

WHO WE ARE

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

HOW TO APPLY

Apply directly via the form below for the position of Campus Recruiter. Please provide us with a CV. When we think there is a potential match, you will hear from us sooner than you expect.

Please note:

• We cannot accept applications via email for data protection reasons.
• We do not require any assistance from third-parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role.

DIVERSITY STATEMENT

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.

The key to Optiver’s success as a leading market maker is our people. We place a strong focus on education and internal growth, making the Campus Recruitment team pivotal to the development of our Amsterdam and London operations. As a Campus Recruiter, you will be responsible for hiring into our Internship and Graduate programs, as well as attracting top talent to our early engagement initiatives. Have an innovative idea? You will have both the freedom and resources to make it happen – we believe in autonomy, ownership and providing a platform for everyone to make an impact. We know our best work is done together, so you’ll both collaborate with and potentially mentor other Campus Recruiters across our Amsterdam and London teams.

Please note: this role could be based in Amsterdam or London - please highlight your preference when you apply. If you have already applied for the Campus Recruiter role in Amsterdam or London, you do not need to submit a second application if you’re open to both locations.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

Our Recruitment teams are formed of specialists that work across our three key departments: Trading, Technology and Business Operations. The core focus of our Campus Recruiters is to identify, attract, and secure top talent from our target markets for our early careers programs and opportunities. To help us achieve our goals, your responsibilities will include:

• Building and maintaining strong relationships with top-tier universities and target student groups
• Planning and executing on-campus and in-house for students including delivering company presentations, attending career fairs and hosting in-house days
• Traveling across Europe as needed during peak seasons
• Developing innovative recruitment strategies supported by data-driven insights
• Proactively assessing and improving our current recruitment strategy
• Exercising your interviewing toolkit – combining accurate assessment with a top candidate experience
• Mentoring and supporting the development of your colleagues

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. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the toughest problems in the financial markets.

In addition, you’ll receive the relevant local benefits:

Amsterdam

• A performance-based bonus structure, enabling all of our employees to benefit from our global profit pool 
• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 50 different countries 
• 25 paid vacation days in your first year, increasing to 30 from your second year onwards
• Training opportunities, discounts on health insurance, and fully paid first-class commuting expenses 
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch, and dinner, world-class barista coffee, in-house physio and chair massages, organised sports and leisure activities, and Friday afternoon drinks

London

• A performance-based bonus structure, enabling all of our employees to benefits from our global profit pool 
• 27 paid vacation days plus all UK bank holidays 
• Daily breakfast and lunch, along with support on commuting expenses 
• Private medical insurance, pension scheme and ClassPass fitness membership 
• Training and continuous learning opportunities, including access to conferences and tech events 
• International transfer opportunities for global career growth 

WHO YOU ARE:

• Bachelor’s or Master's degree
• 2+ years of relevant or related experience (preferably in graduate/campus or other high-volume recruitment within the UK or EU market)
• Experience recruiting from the UK/broader EMEA markets is highly valued
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• Able to handle competing priorities and to work effectively in a challenging, fast-paced environment
• An appetite to utilize data to inform strategic thinking and decision-making
• Flexibility with regards to working hours, since events and traveling can take place during evenings and weekends

WHO WE ARE

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

HOW TO APPLY

Apply directly via the form below for the position of Campus Recruiter. Please provide us with a CV. When we think there is a potential match, you will hear from us sooner than you expect.

Please note:

• We cannot accept applications via email for data protection reasons.
• We do not require any assistance from third-parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role.

DIVERSITY STATEMENT

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.

People Technology sits within Optiver’s broader Business Applications landscape and plays a key role in enabling our People and Recruitment teams through reliable, scalable and intuitive systems. The team also partners closely with other business support functions—such as Tech Operations, Finance, Compliance and more—to develop collaborative, cross-functional solutions that enhance employee experience and ensure alignment across the business. 

As a People Technology Support Analyst you will serve as the first point of contact for all system-related questions and issues across our People Technology ecosystem. You will support and optimize applications such as Workday, Greenhouse, Gem, Culture Amp and others, with Workday and Greenhouse being the most frequently used. This role will blend day-to-day operational support with hands-on involvement in system enhancements, requirements gathering, testing, small-scale projects, and continuous improvement initiatives. You'll play a key role in delivering seamless, intuitive, and people-centered technology experience for teams across Optiver. 

What you'll do 

In this role, you will help maintain, optimize, and enhance our People Technology landscape. 

Day-to-day support (50%) 

• Serve as the first point of contact for users across all People Technology systems, primarily Workday and Greenhouse.
• Deliver high-quality support by troubleshooting issues, resolving Jira tickets, and responding to user inquiries.
• Triage incoming Jira tickets, ensuring timely resolution and clear, proactive communication with stakeholders.
• Identify knowledge gaps and develop training materials, documentation, or communications to enhance system adoption.
• Monitor system performance and support defect resolution efforts to maintain reliable and scalable People Technology systems. 

Projects, enhancements & continuous improvement (50%) 

• Participate in requirement gathering for enhancements, new features and process improvements.
• Support testing activities , including functional testing, regression testing, and coordinating user acceptance testing.
• Assist in implementing small system enhancements and configuration updates.
• Develop an understanding of system interdependencies and how changes impact the broader People Technology ecosystem.
• Identify opportunities to streamline processes, challenge the status quo and contribute to People Technology best practices.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver collaborative, integrated solutions that support broader business goals.
   

Who you are

• 3+ years of experience working with People and Recruitment systems, including formal experience in both a systems support role and within a Recruitment function, with regular hands-on use of HRIS and ATS platforms in day-to-day operations. 
• Experience with Workday or Greenhouse is preferred; however, experience supporting other HRIS or ATS platforms (e.g., other core HR systems, recruiting tools, or people-facing applications) is also applicable.
• Experience with Jira or similar ticketing systems; Confluence experience is a plus.
• Detail-oriented with a strong commitment to data accuracy; experience conducting data audits is a plus.
• Comfortable working in fast-paced environments, with the ability to learn new systems quickly and manage multiple priorities independently.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to engage effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• A curious, pragmatic, and user-focused thinker who takes initiative and champions continuous improvement.
   

Who we are

At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing 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. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.

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. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the toughest 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.
• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 50 different countries.
• 25 paid vacation days in your first year, increasing to 30 from your second year onwards.
• Training opportunities, discounts on health insurance, and fully paid first-class commuting expenses.
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and dinner, world-class barista coffee, in-house physio and chair massages, organized sports and leisure activities, and Friday afternoon drinks.
• Training and continuous learning opportunities, including access to conferences and tech events.
• Competitive relocation packages and visa sponsorship where necessary for expats.

How to apply

Apply directly via the form below. If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruitment team via our recruitment inquiry form.

Please note:

• We do not require any assistance from third-parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role
• We cannot accept applications via email

Diversity statement

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.

• Installing and cabling switches, servers and appliances in our Brazil co-locations;
• Managing power and space allocation, including capacity planning and monitoring;
• Maintaining clean and consistent cable management practices;
• Tracking and managing spare parts and cable inventory;
• Performing break-fix repairs, replacing components like hard drives, memory and transceivers;
• Planning and executing data center build-outs, relocations and new equipment installations;
• Packing, shipping, and managing the logistics of the Brazil co-locations;
• Maintaining comprehensive data center documentation and support the standardization of procedures;
• Troubleshooting and testing cabling (fiber and copper) using cable testers;
• Supporting system builds, configuration, and troubleshooting as needed

• Experience working in modern, large-scale data centers;
• Ability to identify basic parts of network equipment (SFPs, line cards, chassis) and servers (memory, network cards, hard drives);
• Knowledge of structured cabling systems (Cat 5, Cat 6, multi-mode, and single-mode fiber);
• Familiarity with power and communications cabling standards;
• Experience with cable testers to troubleshoot both fiber and copper cabling issues;
• An understanding of change control processes;
• Basic server operating system installation and configuration skills;
• Strong documentation skills and a meticulous approach to tracking details.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills;
• Creative problem-solving mindset, bringing new ideas to improve data center operations;
• Experience leading or coordinating resources in infrastructure projects, from conception to completion;
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in fast-paced environments;
• Ability to lift up to 75 lbs, 30kg, Ability to lift heavy objects
• Willingness to work flexible hours outside of regular business hours, including weekends, to execute physical infrastructure changes;

Who we are

At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing 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. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.

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. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the toughest problems in the financial markets.

How to apply 

Apply directly via the form below. If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruitment team via our recruitment inquiry form.

Please note:

• We do not require any assistance from third-parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role
• We cannot accept applications via email

Diversity statement

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.

As an Institutional Trader at Optiver you will be instrumental in the decision making and execution of our large-order trading strategies through the management of our relationships with brokers and direct counterparties.

We’re looking for a unique blend of communication skills and quantitative ability. The daily interactions you’ll have with our external partners will provide vital market insights; when these are combined with your analytical skills, intuition and close collaboration with our Screen Traders, you’ll be well placed to negotiate the best possible prices at speed. For many of the products we trade, this approach allows us to continuously operate at the forefront of the market.

What you’ll do

• Identify and capitalize on market opportunities, both independently and within the trading team;
• Make split-second trading decisions that can instantly impact profitability;
• Constantly aim to identify new product/market opportunities to diversify our strategies and maximise success;
• Improve execution and access to volume;
• Network internally with other Institutional Traders and Screen Traders to ensure you’re acting on well-informed decisions;
• Represent Optiver’s quotes and execute orders with many of the world’s largest trading desks via phone, IM and Bloomberg;
• Negotiate prices with brokers and other relevant parties;
• Help improve our systems and tools in order to capture data in the most effective way;
• Understand and apply knowledge of the exchanges’ rules/regulations and market structures in which we engage.

Who you are

• High EQ and strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to positively influence outcomes;
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; English fluency is a requirement;
• 2-5 years of professional working experience; Previous experience in a similar seat may be beneficial but there’s also a lot of raw skills that can be learnt from other fields and applied to this type of dynamic role.
• Minimum of a BSc in a quantitative or technical field;
• Ability to work well under pressure, thriving when making fast decisions and handling a high volume of trades, often simultaneously;
• Entrepreneurial mindset;
• Detail oriented;
• Competitive by nature

If you're interested in learning more, have a look at our 'Inside Optiver's Institutional Trading Team' blog!

Who we are 

At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing 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. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.

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. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the toughest 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.
• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 50 different countries.
• 25 paid vacation days in your first year, increasing to 30 from your second year onwards.
• Training opportunities, discounts on health insurance, and fully paid first-class commuting expenses.
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and dinner, world-class barista coffee, in-house physio and chair massages, organized sports and leisure activities, and Friday afternoon drinks.
• Training and continuous learning opportunities, including access to conferences and tech events.
• Competitive relocation packages and visa sponsorship where necessary for expats.

How to apply

Apply directly via the form below. If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruitment team via our recruitment inquiry form.

Please note:

• We do not require any assistance from third-parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role
• We cannot accept applications via email

Diversity statement

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.

Optiver is seeking a Trade Support Analyst to join our trading team in Amsterdam. This is a high-impact role at the intersection of trading operations, engineering, and innovation.

You will own critical trading workflows end-to-end while driving automation, scalability, and next-generation tooling across our systems. You’ll play a key role in ensuring the reliability of our trading operations while actively shaping how we evolve—through automation, data, and AI-driven solutions.

What you'll do 

You will take full ownership of trading support processes, combining operational excellence with continuous improvement and automation.

Trading operations

• Manage and execute critical trading support workflows across asset classes, including cash equities, options, and futures.
• Own the full trade lifecycle, including trade processing, reconciliation, settlements, corporate actions, and trade confirmations.
• Support exchange trade crossing workflows across multiple venues.
• Ensure accurate trade booking and timely clearing of positions.
• Own monitoring and control of trading and post-trade processes, proactively identifying and mitigating operational risk.
• Build dashboards and controls to track positions, risk, and operational health.
• Act as a key point of contact for exchanges, brokers, and counterparties.

Automation & engineering

• Design and build automation to streamline workflows and reduce manual effort.
• Develop internal tools and scripts (Python, SQL) to improve scalability and resilience.
• Partner closely with developers and traders to productionize solutions.
• Continuously optimize systems, data flows, and operational efficiency.

Innovation & AI focus

• Explore and implement AI and agentic workflows to enhance operations.
• Identify opportunities to leverage data and automation for smarter decision-making.
• Contribute to building the next generation of intelligent operational tooling.

Who you are

• Experience in trade support/operations within financial markets.
• Exposure to equities and/or derivatives.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset with high attention to detail.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, trading floor environment/

Technical & mindset fit

• Proficient in Python and SQL.
• Strong interest in automation and engineering-driven solutions.
• Motivated to work with AI/agentic workflows and emerging technologies.
• Thinks in terms of scalability, efficiency, and system design, not just process execution.

Who we are

At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing 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. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.

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. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the toughest 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.
• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 50 different countries.
• 25 paid vacation days in your first year, increasing to 30 from your second year onwards.
• Training opportunities, discounts on health insurance, and fully paid first-class commuting expenses.
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and dinner, world-class barista coffee, in-house physio and chair massages, organized sports and leisure activities, and Friday afternoon drinks.
• Training and continuous learning opportunities, including access to conferences and tech events.
• Competitive relocation packages and visa sponsorship where necessary for expats.

How to apply

Are you interested in furthering your career on one of the most dynamic and exciting trading floors in Europe? -OPTIONAL
Apply directly via the form below. If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruitment team via our recruitment inquiry form.

Please note:

• We do not require any assistance from third-parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role
• We cannot accept applications via email

Diversity statement

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.

We’re looking for a Test and Automation Engineer to join our hardware R&D team building long-range HF communication systems. You’ll build and scale the systems that validate and operate our hardware across both development and production, working across test automation, lab infrastructure, and hardware coordination. In this role, you’ll own how hardware is exercised end-to-end, ensuring reliable and repeatable performance in demanding environments.

What you'll do 

As a Test and Automation Engineer, your key responsibilities include:

• Designing, developing, and maintaining automated test frameworks for hardware validation and production testing

• Building and maintaining automation for hardware coordination and state control; managing transitions between operational states and integrating with monitoring systems, safety interlocks, and protection mechanisms

• Developing Python-based tooling and test suites to exercise hardware interfaces, including Ethernet, SPI/I2C/Serial, Modbus, SCPI, and custom protocols

• Implementing and maintaining communication with industrial peripherals and test equipment

• Automating lab instrumentation, including oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, VNAs, and cable/component testers

• Creating and managing CI/CD pipelines that integrate hardware test results into the broader build and release workflow

• Instrumenting and monitoring test and production infrastructure by collecting metrics, generating reports, and tracking hardware test coverage over time

• Collaborating closely with hardware, RF, and infrastructure engineers to improve system reliability, observability, and testability

Who you are

• Experienced in hardware test automation, production/manufacturing automation, or embedded systems validation

• Strong in Python, with a focus on building clean, maintainable, and scalable automation frameworks

• Hands-on experience communicating with and coordinating industrial devices and peripherals

• Familiar with Ethernet-based systems and protocols (TCP/UDP sockets, network configuration, packet capture/analysis)

• Experienced in automating lab instruments using SCPI, VISA, or vendor-specific APIs

• Comfortable working in Linux environments, including command-line tooling, shell scripting, and service management

• Able to take ownership of systems end-to-end and operate effectively in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment

Nice to Have

• Experience with RF systems, SDR, or HF communication systems

• Familiarity with Protocol Buffers or similar serialization frameworks

• Experience with CI/CD systems such as Jenkins or Bamboo for hardware-integrated pipelines

• Understanding of network infrastructure concepts such as VLANs, DHCP, PXE/TFTP boot, and SSH tunneling

Who we are

At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing 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. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.

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. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the toughest 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.
• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 50 different countries.
• 25 paid vacation days in your first year, increasing to 30 from your second year onwards.
• Training opportunities, discounts on health insurance, and fully paid first-class commuting expenses.
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and dinner, world-class barista coffee, in-house physio and chair massages, organized sports and leisure activities, and Friday afternoon drinks.
• Training and continuous learning opportunities, including access to conferences and tech events.
• Competitive relocation packages and visa sponsorship where necessary for expats.

How to apply

Apply directly via the form below. If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruitment team via our recruitment inquiry form.

Please note:

• We do not require any assistance from third-parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role
• We cannot accept applications via email

Diversity statement

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.

As a global market maker, Optiver trades hundreds of thousands of financial instruments on exchanges around the world. By continuously providing quotes – both bids to buy and offers to sell – we play a vital role in the healthy functioning of markets.  

We are looking for a Senior Horizon Engineer to improve and evolve our global, large-scale Omnissa Horizon environment. This is a hands-on, execution-focused role with strong emphasis on platform automation, repeatability, and data-driven decision making. You will be responsible not only for keeping the platform stable, but for improving how it is operated over time through automation, standardization, and evidence-based optimization.

This is a specialist Horizon engineering role, not a generic Modern Workplace position.

What you'll do

• Operate and support production VMware Horizon (Omnissa) environments
• Own and execute Horizon platform upgrades (agents, pods, components) with minimal user impact
• Troubleshoot and remediate performance, stability, and user-experience issues using metrics and evidence, not guesswork
• Diagnose and resolve authentication and login-related issues (AD, GPOs, certificates, SSO, MFA integrations)
• Design and implement repeatable processes using PowerShell-first automation, APIs, and infrastructure-as-code principles where applicable
• Use monitoring and operational data to drive capacity planning, tuning, and remediation decisions
• Work closely with infrastructure, networking, and security teams on cross-domain issues and improvements
• Analyse and address resource contention across compute, memory, storage, network, and vGPU where applicable
• Participate in remediation initiatives related to performance degradation, login latency, session instability, and user-impacting incidents
• Continuously reduce manual operational effort through scripting, standardisation, and platform improvements

Who you are

• A senior, hands-on Horizon engineer with 7+ years of real production experience
• Comfortable taking ownership of both technical outcomes and operational quality
• Experienced in applying automation and infrastructure-as-code thinking to improve reliability and consistency (even if not everything is fully codified)
• Data-driven in how you troubleshoot, optimize and justify changes
• Execution-focused, with a strong bias toward fixing root causes rather than symptoms
• Calm and methodical under pressure, especially during incidents
• Clear communicator who can explain technical decisions using evidence and impact

Who we are

At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing 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. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.

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. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the toughest problems in the financial markets.

In addition, you’ll receive:

• A performance-based bonus structure, enabling all of our employees to benefit from our global profit pool.
• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 50 different countries.
• 25 paid vacation days in your first year, increasing to 30 from your second year onwards.
• Training opportunities, discounts on health insurance, and fully paid first-class commuting expenses.
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and dinner, world-class barista coffee, in-house physio and chair massages, organized sports and leisure activities, and Friday afternoon drinks.
• Training and continuous learning opportunities, including access to conferences and tech events.

How to apply

Apply directly via the form below. If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruitment team via our recruitment inquiry form.

Diversity statement

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.

Our Linux engineering team ensures that our critical trading servers and infrastructure operate efficiently and reliably across the globe. In a highly customized, bare-metal environment powered by proprietary tools and technology, you’ll help design and implement cutting-edge solutions that enable scalable technological evolution while maintaining peak performance together with speed and precision.

What you'll do

• Designing, deploying, and managing the lifecycle of a large-scale fleet of Linux servers across multiple data centers, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability.
• Architecting, building, and maintaining systems that drive efficiency and support Optiver’s evolving technology stack.
• Ensuring system reliability by swiftly resolving incidents and optimizing performance to meet trading demands, even during extreme market conditions.
• Researching and implementing new technologies or building enhanced in-house solutions to improve performance and system stability.
• Bridging the gap between hardware and software to ensure seamless interaction and integration.
• Optimizing system and kernel performance, including CPU affinity, NUMA balancing, HugePages, IRQ tuning, and other low-level configurations.
• Developing and maintaining automation tools using Python to enhance system efficiency.
• Monitoring system health and performance using observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Alertmanager.
• Managing system provisioning and infrastructure deployment using Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Ansible and/or Terraform.
• Joining our rotating support and on-call roster to facilitate global trading operations.

Who you are

• Experience in Linux engineering, debugging, administration, and OS system provisioning

• A solid understanding of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, TCP/UDP/multicast, and packet analysis.

• Hands-on experience with system/network tools such as EBPF, tcpdump, strace, ntp/ptp, lsof, nc.

• Experience with performance tuning at both the kernel and hardware level, including CPU pinning, cache optimizations, and BIOS/UEFI tuning.

• Experience with Linux security hardening techniques.

• Experience managing SAN storages.

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, version control systems (Git), and PR-based workflows.

• Strong experience with monitoring and alerting tools like Elastic, Prometheus, Grafana, and Alert Manager.

• Proficiency in Python for automating operational tasks and system administration.

• Ability to manage large projects, work collaboratively in a team, and communicate effectively to drive technical improvements.

• Willingness to learn new technologies, navigate frequent change, and contribute to a high-performance engineering environment.

No prior trading or financial experience is needed – our onboarding program will kick-start your career at Optiver and support you in gaining all the relevant knowledge about our business.

Who we are
At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing 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. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.

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. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the toughest problems in the financial markets.

In addition, you’ll receive:

• A performance-based bonus structure, enabling all of our employees to benefit from our global profit pool.
• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 50 different countries.
• 25 paid vacation days in your first year, increasing to 30 from your second year onwards.
• Training opportunities, discounts on health insurance, and fully paid first-class commuting expenses.
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and dinner, world-class barista coffee, in-house physio and chair massages, organized sports and leisure activities, and Friday afternoon drinks.
• Training and continuous learning opportunities, including access to conferences and tech events.
  
  

How to apply
Apply directly via the form below. If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruitment team via our recruitment inquiry form.

Please note:

• We do not require any assistance from third-parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role
• We cannot accept applications via email
  
  

Diversity statement
Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.

Optiver’s Enterprise Technology Support Engineers focus on IT systems and applications that allow users to perform their daily work. We firmly believe in finding the right blend of functionality for our users and manageability for administrators. To that end, the person we seek will revel in finding that balance, and running systems that consistently work and work well.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

As an Enterprise Technology Support Engineer in our Amsterdam office, you'll be pivotal in ensuring seamless technology operations across all departments. Your role encompasses a broad range of responsibilities, aimed at delivering top-notch IT support and fostering a technologically optimized work environment. Key aspects of your role include:

• User Support Excellence: Serve as the primary contact for IT-related requests, incidents, and issues, ensuring rapid resolution and minimal business impact.
• Relationship and Trust Building: Develop strong connections with users and key stakeholders, understanding their needs to maintain an optimized IT environment.
• Lifecycle IT Management: Handle the complete IT lifecycle for users, from onboarding to offboarding, ensuring a smooth start and finish to their tenure.
• Proactive Environment Management: Implement alert systems and analyze trends to prevent IT issues, maintaining a stable and efficient work environment.
• Process Standardization and Self-Service Empowerment: Streamline IT processes and develop self-service resources, enabling users to solve common issues independently.
• Security and Compliance Audits: Regularly audit the IT environment to ensure compliance with security standards and policies.
• Strategic Project Management: Lead projects to enhance the IT environment and user experience, prioritizing impactful improvements.
• Hardware Management and Office IT Setup: Oversee user-facing hardware and manage IT setups for office expansions, ensuring technological readiness and productivity.
• Enterprise IT Solutions: Analyze and recommend solutions for user-facing technologies, collaborating with extended IT teams for seamless service delivery.

Your role is a blend of technical acumen and interpersonal skills, aimed at creating a resilient, user-friendly IT landscape that supports the company's goals and enhances productivity.

WHO YOU ARE

• Solid foundation in Windows OS, Active Directory, AV equipment management, and troubleshooting IT issues across desktops, laptops, mobile devices, and printers.
• Proficient with SCCM, Intune, Zoom, RDP, and a broad spectrum of user and collaboration technologies including Zoom, Slack, and Confluence.
• Operational expertise in VMWare, backup solutions, datastore management, and basic network troubleshooting is required.
• A minimum of 5 years in end-user support and enterprise operations, with extensive experience supporting and leading projects in the Microsoft ecosystem (Windows OS, Office suite, AD, DNS, Group Policy, DHCP), end-user technologies, and server environments.
• Demonstrated capability in managing user access, SOE image creation/installation, and familiarity with SCCM.
• Passionate about IT support and customer service, with a proactive can-do attitude.
• Exceptional attention to detail, operational excellence, strong documentation skills, critical thinking, and a robust understanding of change control processes.
• Your communication skills are top-notch, both written and verbal, and you're a team player committed to operational excellence.

WHO WE ARE

At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing 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. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.

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. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the toughest problems in the financial markets.

In addition, you’ll receive:

• A performance-based bonus structure, enabling all of our employees to benefit from our global profit pool.

• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 50 different countries.

• 25 paid vacation days in your first year, increasing to 30 from your second year onwards.

• Training opportunities, discounts on health insurance, and fully paid first-class commuting expenses.

• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and dinner, world-class barista coffee, in-house physio and chair massages, organized sports and leisure activities, and Friday afternoon drinks.

• Training and continuous learning opportunities, including access to conferences and tech events.

• Competitive relocation packages and visa sponsorship where necessary for expats.

HOW TO APPLY

Are you interested in furthering your career on one of the most dynamic and exciting trading floors in Europe?

Apply directly via the form below. If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruitment team via our recruitment inquiry form.

Please note:

• We do not require any assistance from third-parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role

• We cannot accept applications via email

DIVERSITY STATEMENT

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.

When you start your career at Optiver, you’ll own the entire development pipeline, from idea generation to development, testing and monitoring. As we iterate and release new versions of our platform multiple times a week, you’ll never have to wait to see the impact of your work.

Optiver’s FPGA team build hardware-based trading systems ranging from low latency algorithms to high bandwidth computation. Our engineers leverage the latest technologies, techniques, and hardware to ensure the fastest and most reliable trading systems that are crucial to Optiver’s success.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

As a Graduate FPGA Engineer, you’ll work in a team of FPGA Hardware and Software Engineers to design and maintain our proprietary trading systems. Your goal is to find the simplest solutions to the most complex problems.

From day one, you’ll have a direct impact on the success of our trading strategies by producing highly-reliable FPGA designs that secure the lowest latency possible. You’ll be part of a collaborative, fast-paced and respectful engineering environment that focuses on continuous improvement.

During your first months at Optiver, you’ll learn the ins-and-outs of our trading systems and the engineering principles that make them successful. No prior financial experience is required, as we’ll also offer you our “Trading for Non-Traders” program, to get you fully up to speed on this fascinating industry. 

WHO YOU ARE:

• You have a university degree in Electronic Engineering or Computer Engineering or similar graduating in or before 2026.

• You have digital academic design experience with FPGAs or ASICs

• You have Academic Experience in VHDL, Verilog, or SystemVerilog

• Have an open, collaborative, self-critical attitude and willingness to learn from your mistakes

• The desire to understand how the systems you build fit into our trading activities

WHO WE ARE:

At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing 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. We tackle the toughest problems, challenge the status quo, and always aim for excellence. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.

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. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the toughest 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.

• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 50 different countries.

• 25 paid vacation days in your first year, increasing to 30 from your second year onwards.

• Training opportunities, discounts on health insurance, and fully paid first-class commuting expenses.

• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and dinner, world-class barista coffee, in-house physio and chair massages, organized sports and leisure activities, and Friday afternoon drinks.

• Training and continuous learning opportunities, including access to conferences and tech events.

• Competitive relocation packages and visa sponsorship where necessary for expats.

HOW TO APPLY:

Apply directly via the form below. For answers to some of our most frequently asked questions, refer to our Campus FAQs. If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruitment team via our recruitment inquiry form.

For applicants based in India, our entry route is via the placement office internship hiring season (July/August).

*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 reapply once the next recruitment season begins in 2026.

DIVERSITY STATEMENT:

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.

At Optiver, we pride ourselves on being real Engineers, not just coders. Our Engineers work closely with Traders to identify the business problems we face and determine how they should be solved. We apply a disciplined and scientific approach to engineer simple, well-architected solutions that meet the dynamic needs of our traders. Our passion is to solve problems which really matter to the business, and we take great pride in the quality of our solutions. 

What you'll do
Hardware Engineers at Optiver build hardware-based trading systems ranging from low latency algorithms to high bandwidth computation. They are responsible for owning all aspects of the development process – from ideation to implementation, creating bespoke solutions to our complex trading problems. Their systems have little room for failure which add to the stability of the market, not detract from it. Working in close collaboration with Software Engineers and Traders, Hardware Engineers deeply understand our trading problems and create dynamic, well-architected systems that make an impact in a matter of days and weeks rather than months and years.

Who you are

• Master’s degree in CE, EE, CS, or related technical field
• Experience designing, coding, testing, and verifying FPGAs and/or ASICs
• Experience coding in VHDL, Verilog, SystemVerilog (C or C++ is a plus)
• Experience with RTL synthesis, writing timing, area, and other relevant constraints
• Experience with digital simulators and self-checking test benches.
• Experience supporting post-silicon bring-up and debugging a plus
• Ability to work closely with software developers to rapidly deliver integrated systems

Who we are
At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing 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. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.

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. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the toughest problems in the financial markets.

In addition, you’ll receive:

• A performance-based bonus structure, enabling all of our employees to benefit from our global profit pool.
• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 50 different countries.
• 25 paid vacation days in your first year, increasing to 30 from your second year onwards.
• Training opportunities, discounts on health insurance, and fully paid first-class commuting expenses.
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and dinner, world-class barista coffee, in-house physio and chair massages, organized sports and leisure activities, and Friday afternoon drinks.
• Training and continuous learning opportunities, including access to conferences and tech events.
• Competitive relocation packages and visa sponsorship where necessary for expats.

How to apply
Apply directly via the form below. If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruitment team via our recruitment inquiry form.

Please note:

• We do not require any assistance from third-parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role
• We cannot accept applications via email

Diversity statement
Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.

As a Linux Engineer in the Global Linux team, you will design, build and operate the critical infrastructure that powers our trading environment. The team owns both large-scale bare-metal Linux platforms and on-prem Kubernetes clusters across our global datacenters.

You will play a key role in evolving our Kubernetes platform while continuing to support and improve our high-performance Linux estate.

What you’ll do

Design, deploy and operate on-prem Kubernetes clusters in a bare-metal environment (Rancher-managed)

• Maintain and improve our bare-metal Linux infrastructure, including provisioning, lifecycle management and performance tuning

• Own and operate core Kubernetes components including Cilium (CNI), ArgoCD (GitOps), and Rancher

• Build and maintain CI/CD workflows for infrastructure and cluster deployments using ArgoCD and GitHub Actions

• Develop and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform and bespoke on-prem systems

• Participate in on-call rotation covering both Kubernetes clusters and other Linux-based production systems

• Drive reliability, scalability and performance improvements across both containerized and non-containerized workloads

• Contribute to monitoring, observability and security posture across the Linux and Kubernetes platforms

• Ensure the broader team can effectively operate and support the Kubernetes and Linux platforms by building clear documentation, operational runbooks, and providing practical, hands-on guidance

Who you are

• Strong Linux systems engineering experience in production environments

• Hands-on experience operating Kubernetes on-prem (not only managed cloud offerings)

• Experience with:

  • Rancher

  • Cilium or other CNI technologies

  • ArgoCD (GitOps workflows)

  • Terraform

  • CI/CD systems such as GitHub Actions

• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals (L2/L3, routing, firewalls, load balancing)

• Experience troubleshooting performance issues across kernel, container and network layers

• Production mindset with experience in incident response and post-mortem driven improvements

Nice to have

• Experience building monitoring stacks (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana)

• Experience with Kubernetes security controls (network policies, RBAC, policy engines)

• Knowledge of low-latency or performance-sensitive environments

• Experience contributing to internal platform tooling

No prior trading or financial experience is needed – our onboarding program will kick-start your career at Optiver and support you in gaining all the relevant knowledge about our business.

Who we are
At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing 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. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.

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. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the toughest problems in the financial markets.

In addition, you’ll receive:

• A performance-based bonus structure, enabling all of our employees to benefit from our global profit pool.
• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 50 different countries.
• 25 paid vacation days in your first year, increasing to 30 from your second year onwards.
• Training opportunities, discounts on health insurance, and fully paid first-class commuting expenses.
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and dinner, world-class barista coffee, in-house physio and chair massages, organized sports and leisure activities, and Friday afternoon drinks.
• Training and continuous learning opportunities, including access to conferences and tech events.

How to apply
Apply directly via the form below. If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruitment team via our recruitment inquiry form.

Please note:

• We do not require any assistance from third-parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role
• We cannot accept applications via email

Diversity statement
Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.

About the Role

We are building Optiver’s next-generation Enterprise Data Platform on the Databricks Lakehouse. As an Enterprise Data Engineer, you’ll design the curated data models, pipelines, and metrics that make data a trusted asset across Finance, People, and Business Operations.

This is a hands-on role at the center of our data transformation: you’ll shape how business stakeholders access and trust data, working on one of the most modern stacks in the industry

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Build clean, scalable ELT pipelines using dbt, SQL, PySpark, and Databricks.

• Design curated models and semantic layers to standardize KPIs across Finance, People, and Ops.

• Partner directly with business teams to turn complex requirements into clear, reusable data products.

• Implement governance and quality checks (lineage, testing, role-based access) so data is reliable and secure.

• Deliver data products that power BI tools and self-service analytics.

• Contribute to platform best practices (CI/CD, naming conventions, testing frameworks).

WHO YOU ARE

• Experience in Data Engineering or Analytics Engineering, ideally with exposure to Finance, People, or Business Ops data.

• Advanced SQL and dbt skills, with experience modeling for analytics (dimensional, medallion, vault).

• Hands-on experience with Databricks or equivalent Lakehouse platforms.

• Understanding of data governance and quality frameworks.

• Strong communication skills and the ability to work directly with business stakeholders.

WHO WE ARE

At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing 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. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.

WHAT YOU’LL GET

At Optiver, data is central to everything we do. You’ll join a small, high-impact team with a mandate to build best-in-class data capabilities from the ground up. Here, you will:

• Work with a modern Lakehouse + dbt stack, setting the standards others will follow.

• See your models and pipelines directly shape decision-making across the firm.

• Grow alongside experienced data leaders in a culture of excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement.

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

In addition, you’ll receive:

• A performance-based bonus structure, enabling all of our employees to benefit from our global profit pool.

• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 50 different countries.

• 25 paid vacation days in your first year, increasing to 30 from your second year onwards.

• Training opportunities, discounts on health insurance, and fully paid first-class commuting expenses.

• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and dinner, world-class barista coffee, in-house physio and chair massages, organized sports and leisure activities, and Friday afternoon drinks.

• Training and continuous learning opportunities, including access to conferences and tech events.

• Competitive relocation packages and visa sponsorship where necessary for expats.

HOW TO APPLY

Apply directly via the form below. If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruitment team via our recruitment inquiry form.

Please note:

• We do not require any assistance from third-parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role

• We cannot accept applications via email’

DIVERSITY STATEMENT

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.

Optiver’s technology teams build and run the systems that power our trading every day. 

As Tech Strategy Manager you will partner closely with the Tech COO and Optiver’s broader tech leadership to shape the firm’s technology strategy. You’ll work at the intersection of strategic thinking, cutting edge technology and execution coordination to help deliver the ambitious growth strategy of Optiver.

What you’ll do

• Drive firm-wide tech strategy initiatives from framing to executive decision across a broad range of topics such as:
  • location strategy for tech teams
  • org design for scaling engineering
  • approach to driving AI adoption across tech teams
• Support senior tech leadership in the preparation of and delivery of board and executive-level materials
• Organize and lead cross-functional problem-solving efforts with senior engineers, tech leaders, traders
• Work closely with the Tech COO and leads in the CTO Office to deliver against current priorities across Tech PMO, Tech Risk Management, Tech Finance, Tech Talent and Innovation
• Act as a strategic sparring partner to global Tech Leads

Who you are

• Analytical and data-driven: you can find insight in complexity and separate the signal from the noise
• Conceptual and strategic: you see the system, not just the symptom – distilling complex dynamics into clear, actional insights
• Comfortable with ambiguity: You thrive in ambiguous, high-stakes problem spaces with incomplete information
• Strong communicator: clear, concise, assertive when needed; confident across written, verbal and boardroom settings. You’re comfortable challenging senior stakeholders with well-reasoned perspectives.
• Experience that helps:
  • Management consulting, technology or trading background
  • 5+ years of experience in a fast-moving, high-performance environment, e.g., Tier 1 consulting (MBB), Tier 1 investment banking (Goldman, JPM) or leading PE firms

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. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the toughest problems in the financial markets.

In addition, you’ll receive:

• A performance-based bonus structure, enabling all of our employees to benefit from our global profit pool.
• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 50 different countries.
• 25 paid vacation days in your first year, increasing to 30 from your second year onwards.
• Training opportunities, discounts on health insurance, and fully paid first-class commuting expenses.
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and dinner, world-class barista coffee, in-house physio and chair massages, organized sports and leisure activities, and Friday afternoon drinks.
• Training and continuous learning opportunities, including access to conferences and tech events.
• Competitive relocation packages and visa sponsorship where necessary for expats.

How to apply
Apply directly via the form below. If you have any questions, feel free to contact our Recruitment team via our recruitment inquiry form.
Please note:

• We do not require any assistance from third-parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role
• We cannot accept applications via email

Diversity Statement
Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.

Our Linux engineering team ensures that our critical trading servers and infrastructure operate efficiently and reliably across the globe. In a highly customized, bare-metal environment powered by proprietary tools and technology, you’ll help design and implement cutting-edge solutions that enable scalable technological evolution while maintaining peak performance together with speed and precision.

What you'll do

• Designing, deploying, and managing the lifecycle of a large-scale fleet of Linux servers across multiple data centers, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability.
• Architecting, building, and maintaining systems that drive efficiency and support Optiver’s evolving technology stack.
• Ensuring system reliability by swiftly resolving incidents and optimizing performance to meet trading demands, even during extreme market conditions.
• Researching and implementing new technologies or building enhanced in-house solutions to improve performance and system stability.
• Bridging the gap between hardware and software to ensure seamless interaction and integration.
• Optimizing system and kernel performance, including CPU affinity, NUMA balancing, HugePages, IRQ tuning, and other low-level configurations.
• Developing and maintaining automation tools using Python to enhance system efficiency.
• Monitoring system health and performance using observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Alertmanager.
• Managing system provisioning and infrastructure deployment using Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Ansible and/or Terraform.
• Joining our rotating support and on-call roster to facilitate global trading operations.

Who you are

• Experience in Linux engineering, debugging, administration, and OS system provisioning

• A solid understanding of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, TCP/UDP/multicast, and packet analysis.

• Hands-on experience with system/network tools such as EBPF, tcpdump, strace, ntp/ptp, lsof, nc.

• Experience with performance tuning at both the kernel and hardware level, including CPU pinning, cache optimizations, and BIOS/UEFI tuning.

• Experience with Linux security hardening techniques.

• Experience managing SAN storages.

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, version control systems (Git), and PR-based workflows.

• Strong experience with monitoring and alerting tools like Elastic, Prometheus, Grafana, and Alert Manager.

• Proficiency in Python for automating operational tasks and system administration.

• Ability to manage large projects, work collaboratively in a team, and communicate effectively to drive technical improvements.

• Willingness to learn new technologies, navigate frequent change, and contribute to a high-performance engineering environment.

No prior trading or financial experience is needed – our onboarding program will kick-start your career at Optiver and support you in gaining all the relevant knowledge about our business.

Who we are
At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing 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. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.

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. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the toughest problems in the financial markets.

In addition, you’ll receive:

• A performance-based bonus structure, enabling all of our employees to benefit from our global profit pool.
• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 50 different countries.
• 25 paid vacation days in your first year, increasing to 30 from your second year onwards.
• Training opportunities, discounts on health insurance, and fully paid first-class commuting expenses.
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and dinner, world-class barista coffee, in-house physio and chair massages, organized sports and leisure activities, and Friday afternoon drinks.
• Training and continuous learning opportunities, including access to conferences and tech events.
  
  

How to apply
Apply directly via the form below. If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruitment team via our recruitment inquiry form.

Please note:

• We do not require any assistance from third-parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role
• We cannot accept applications via email
  
  

Diversity statement
Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.

Optiver leverages technology to solve a variety of complex problems: optimising for scarce bandwidth, responding to market events with nanosecond speed, automatically pricing complex sets of financial instruments with extremely low error tolerance, and analysing huge volumes of data. Our systems are built to add to the stability of the market, not detract from it; therefore they must operate at peak efficiency in the most extreme market conditions. To achieve this, our user interfaces must present coherent, responsive, real-time visualisations of market activity and system performance while providing intuitive control of a highly complex system.  

Our Core Software Engineers focus on the infrastructural and strategic components of our software landscape, ensuring the core elements provide a stable, performant, and trusted foundation upon which our systems are built.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

Our systems play an essential role in everything we do in the trading domain. That is why our Technology and Trading Teams collaborate closely to jointly explore ideas and establish the new directions. Together, they build and maintain an outstanding suite of reliable, high-performing systems and applications.

As a member of the Core Software Team:

• You will provide the rock-solid software backbone on which the business relies every single day, and will define the technical arena in which the trading-focused development teams continue to innovate.
• You will not only be challenged on your technical knowledge and skills, but also on your capacity for producing simple and elegant solutions in face of an incredibly fast-paced and ever changing business environment.

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. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the toughest 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.

• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries.

• 25 paid vacation days and fully paid first-class commuting expenses.

• Training opportunities and discounts on health insurance.

• Extensive office perks, including breakfast and lunch, world-class barista coffee, sports and leisure activities, Friday afternoon drinks, and weekly in-house chair massages.

• Competitive relocation packages and visa sponsorship where necessary for expats.

WHO YOU ARE:

• A Software Engineer with a genuine and deep desire to write clean and correct code, combined with a strong interest in delivering architectural and strategic solutions, topped off with a considerable dose of realistic and sustainable pragmatism allowing you to simply get things done
• 4+ Years of experience (doesn't require experience in Finance)
• A solid grasp of computer science, knowing your algorithms, memory and concurrency models, CPU-architecture, operating systems and relational databases etc
• As our main body of software is written in C++ and runs on Linux, you will either need to have extensive experience in this language and platform or be more than willing to learn on the job. Next to C++, we also extensively use Python, C# and other languages in Optiver, and you are therefore expected to be willing and able to learn new languages quickly
• We are looking for both senior and junior brilliant minds. If you feel comfortable with the characteristics outlined above, we strongly encourage you to apply!

WHO WE ARE:

At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing 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. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.

HOW TO APPLY:

Are you interested in furthering your career on one of the most dynamic and exciting trading floors in Europe?

Apply directly via the form below for the position of Core Software Engineer. If you are selected from your application to proceed to the next round for the position of Core Software Engineer, you will be required to take an online assessment. If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruitment team via our recruitment inquiry form.

Please note:

• We cannot accept applications via email for data protection reasons.
• We do not require any assistance from third-parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role.

DIVERSITY STATEMENT:

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.

Based in Amsterdam or London - please apply to the opening of your preferred base location.  This opening is for Amsterdam.

As one of the world’s leading Market Making firms, we at Optiver pride ourselves on our ability to improve the market by providing liquidity in all market conditions. Our Institutional Sales teams are central to that success, trading directly with counterparties across the globe. 

As we look to continue our growth, we are seeking an experienced and dynamic institutional sales.  The ideal candidate has experience building relationships within the Italian cash equity market and possesses strong selling capabilities. In this role, you will have the opportunity to make a big impact to our business by driving revenue and building out our market participant network.

Who we are:

At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing 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. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.

What you’ll do:

As an Institutional Sales you will have the chance to play key role in growing Optiver's DCP (direct counterparty) franchise. As well as growing more DCP interactions, you will play a part of helping steer the trading desks' evolution and growth into new markets. Specifically you will:

• Establish, develop, and maintain relationships with counterparts in the Italian cash equity space;
• Assist traders in their direct trading with counterparts - guiding on sequence dialogue and giving context to help trading price most effectively;
• Support trading's growing understanding of both individual and wider DCP sector trading, to help inform their trading efforts;
• Develop participant profiles, reports and analyses;
• Work with marketing team to develop and maintain content as it pertains to direct trading initiatives;
• Attend conferences and seminars for related products.

Who you are:

• Extensive experience in cash equity Institutional Sales.
• Detailed knowledge of and established professional network in the Italian cash equity market.
• Relevant experience within top tier competitor or global investment bank highly desirable.
• Strong experience building relationships within cash equities space and strong selling capabilities.
• Willingness to travel and meet face to face with prospective and current counterparties.
• An ability to entertain and manage the organisation of events.
• Strong communication skills.
• Entrepreneurial mindset willing to take ownership in order to develop exciting projects.
• A pro-active nature that allows you to learn quickly and impact counterparties autonomously.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
• Deep understanding of rules and regulations governing the markets we trade.

What you’ll get:

The chance to further your career working alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries.

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

Healthy work-life balance; we believe in efficiency and autonomy and do not glorify unhealthy working hours

Alongside this you will get great secondary benefits such as 25 paid vacation days, fully paid first-class commuting expenses, training opportunities, discounts on health insurance, breakfast, lunch and facilities, sports and leisure activities, Friday afternoon drinks and even weekly in-house chair massages. Being highly international, we are accustomed to guiding expats through their relocation, offering competitive relocation packages and providing visa sponsorship where necessary.

Based in Amsterdam.

How to apply:

Apply directly via the form below for the position of Cash Equity Italian Institutional Sales.If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruitment team via our recruitment inquiry form. When we think there is a potential match, you will hear from us sooner than you expect. Please note, we cannot accept applications via email for data protection reasons.

Kindly note that we do not require any assistance from third-parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role.

DIVERSITY STATEMENT:

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.

More information on how Optiver Europe processes your personal data can be found in our Privacy Policy. 

As a US Treasuries Trader at Optiver, you will take a leading role in trading and risk-managing US Treasuries across multiple venues. You’ll drive macro trading strategies by taking positions and analyzing macroeconomic data, policy shifts, and cross-asset flows to uncover and capitalize on short- and medium-term market opportunities.

What you’ll do

• Trade and manage risk across US Treasuries and related instruments, leveraging Optiver’s proprietary pricing models and infrastructure.
• Quote and execute orders for institutional counterparties while ensuring tight, competitive pricing and efficient hedging.
• Collaborate closely with quantitative researchers, developers, and other traders to continuously refine pricing models, execution algorithms, and trading strategies.
• Monitor macroeconomic data releases, policy developments and cross-asset flows to identify and act on short and medium term trading opportunities.
• Build and maintain relationships with market participants to deepen Optiver’s presence in the US treasury ecosystem.
• Contribute to strategic development of new trading products and markets in the US Treasury space.

Who you are

• Bachelor’s degree or higher or equivalent in a quantitative discipline
• Experience in trading US treasuries, ideally in options, otherwise related derivatives.
• Proven ability to manage risk and interpret macro drivers in the rates markets.
• Ability to build relationships with institutional counterparties is desirable but not essential.
• Proficiency in Python is a plus, as is familiarity with electronic trading systems (e.g., MTS, Eurex, Bloomberg, Tradeweb).

Who we are 

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

 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. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the toughest 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.
• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 50 different countries.
• 25 paid vacation days in your first year, increasing to 30 from your second year onwards.
• Training opportunities, discounts on health insurance, and fully paid first-class commuting expenses.
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and dinner, world-class barista coffee, in-house physio and chair massages, organized sports and leisure activities, and Friday afternoon drinks.
• Training and continuous learning opportunities, including access to conferences and tech events.
• Competitive relocation packages and visa sponsorship where necessary for expats.

How to apply

Are you interested in furthering your career on one of the most dynamic and exciting trading floors in Europe?

Apply directly via the form below. If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruitment team via recruitment@optiver.com.

Diversity statement

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.

The key to Optiver’s success as a leading market maker is our people. We place a strong focus on education and internal growth, making the Campus Recruitment team pivotal to the development of our Amsterdam and London operations. As a Campus Attraction & Events Coordinator, you will be responsible for supporting in the execution of our EU university events strategy that helps us to hire top talent for our Intern and Graduate programmes. This is a varied and challenging role, with scope for growth and development - we believe in autonomy, ownership and providing a platform for everyone to make an impact. We know our best work is done together, so you’ll collaborate with the team across both Amsterdam and London.

What You’ll Do

This role partners closely with our EU Campus Recruiters to deliver a top tier, seamless schedule of events to attract top talent to our Intern and Graduate programmes. Responsibilities include:

• EU university and attraction events: supporting with the end to end organisation, logistics and execution of a comprehensive and dynamic events schedule, as well as post event follow up and retrospective analysis
• External partners and university societies: building and maintaining strong relationships with our external logistics company, key university careers service contacts and student run societies to support our participation and attendance at events
• Internal partners: liaising with the EU Campus Recruitment and EU events team on needs, best practice and knowledge sharing
• Ad hoc support: supporting the wider UK and EU Campus Recruitment team as required

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. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the toughest problems in the financial markets.

In addition, you’ll receive:

• A performance-based bonus structure, enabling all of our employees to benefit from our global profit pool 
• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 50 different countries 
• 25 paid vacation days in your first year, increasing to 30 from your second year onwards
• Training opportunities, discounts on health insurance, and fully paid first-class commuting expenses 
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch, and dinner, world-class barista coffee, in-house physio and chair massages, organised sports and leisure activities, and Friday afternoon drinks

Who You Are

• Educated to a university level
• 1-2 years experience in an administrative role, ideally with a focus on events
• Highly organised with an eye for detail
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Proficiency in MS Office (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
• Comfort with using data and analytical thinking to make informed decisions
• Excited to work in a fast paced, dynamic environment

Who We Are

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

How to Apply

Apply directly via the form below, if you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruitment team via our recruitment inquiry form.

Please note:

• We do not require any assistance from third-parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role
• We cannot accept applications via email

Diversity Statement

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.

As an Institutional Trader at Optiver you will be instrumental in the decision making and execution of our large-order trading strategies through the management of our relationships with brokers and direct counterparties.

We’re looking for a unique blend of communication skills and quantitative ability. The daily interactions you’ll have with our external partners will provide vital market insights; when these are combined with your analytical skills, intuition and close collaboration with our Screen Traders, you’ll be well placed to negotiate the best possible prices at speed. For many of the products we trade, this approach allows us to continuously operate at the forefront of the market.

What you’ll do

• Identify and capitalize on market opportunities, both independently and within the trading team;
• Make split-second trading decisions that can instantly impact profitability;
• Constantly aim to identify new product/market opportunities to diversify our strategies and maximise success;
• Improve execution and access to volume;
• Network internally with other Institutional Traders and Screen Traders to ensure you’re acting on well-informed decisions;
• Represent Optiver’s quotes and execute orders with many of the world’s largest trading desks via phone, IM and Bloomberg;
• Negotiate prices with brokers and other relevant parties;
• Help improve our systems and tools in order to capture data in the most effective way;
• Understand and apply knowledge of the exchanges’ rules/regulations and market structures in which we engage.

Who you are

• High EQ and strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to positively influence outcomes;
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; English fluency is a requirement;
• 2-5 years of professional working experience; Previous experience in a similar seat may be beneficial but there’s also a lot of raw skills that can be learnt from other fields and applied to this type of dynamic role.
• Minimum of a BSc in a quantitative or technical field;
• Ability to work well under pressure, thriving when making fast decisions and handling a high volume of trades, often simultaneously;
• Entrepreneurial mindset;
• Detail oriented;
• Competitive by nature;

If you're interested in learning more, have a look at our 'Inside Optiver's Institutional Trading Team' blog!

Who we are 

At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing 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. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.

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. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the toughest problems in the financial markets.

Your onboarding will start with an intensive three-month training program alongside other new employees from other departments within the organisation. The first month will be classroom based, bringing you up to speed with the theoretical basics of pricing and the workings of the wider organisation. In the second month you will experience a live simulation trading environment, before putting your knowledge into practice by contributing to your own project, meaning you will be delivering business impact right from the start. We believe hands-on experience is the best way to learn and that’s exactly what we provide.

In addition, you’ll receive:

• A performance-based bonus structure, enabling all of our employees to benefit from our global profit pool.
• 27 paid vacation days plus all UK public holidays.
• Daily breakfast and lunch, along with support on commuting expenses.
• Private medical insurance, pension scheme, and ClassPass fitness membership.
• Training and continuous learning opportunities, including access to conferences and tech events.
• International transfer opportunities for global career growth.

How to apply

Apply directly via the form below. If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruitment team via our recruitment inquiry form.

Please note:

• We do not require any assistance from third-parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role
• We cannot accept applications via email

Diversity statement

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.

Optiver is looking for a Senior Network Engineer with a passion for solving problems and reducing complexity. You will join a team responsible for owning the networks that our industry-leading proprietary trading systems rely on. From day one, your contributions to the design, optimization and maintenance of our globally distributed networks will allow our traders and engineers to continue operating at the highest level of performance, making a direct impact to our business.

Speed, reliability and scalability is at the center of everything that we do.

What you'll do
Working in Optiver’s Network Engineering team will see you contributing to challenges scaling across low-latency, network automation, data center and WAN technologies through to colocation design and enterprise security to support our competitive market-making business. We're not interested in siloes, our engineers touch everything.

Specifically you will do the following:

• Provide technical expertise to enable a high frequency trading floor in a competitive market-making environment;
• Identify, design and implement network optimizations;
• Automate and eliminate manual elements of our network infrastructure;
• Assist with planned upgrades and maintenance (migrations, expansions, hardware and software upgrades);
• Ensure all aspects of our WAN network function correctly across our global data centers and colocations;
• Contribute to capacity planning, connectivity improvements and traffic flow optimization;
• Contribute to the ongoing standardization of our environments & our Infrastructure as Code vision.
  
  

Who you are

• Passionate about network performance, monitoring & capacity planning;
• Confident with a variety of network monitoring and alerting tools;
• Experience with LAN and WAN technologies;
• In depth experience with network transport & routing protocols (TCP/UDP, OSPF, BGP, Multicast);
• Comfortable working in a multi-vendor environment (Cisco, Arista, Palo Alto);
• Experience with network security and firewalls;
• Confident in Python scripting for automation or have an evidenced interest in developing this area;
• Strong communication skills, ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical colleagues across Trading and other business areas;
• Experience with low-latency networking, configuration management tooling functions, time series databases and centralized logging solutions are all beneficial.
  
  

Who we are
At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing 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. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.

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. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the toughest 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
• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries
• 25 paid vacation days and fully paid first-class commuting expenses
• Training opportunities and discounts on health insurance
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast and lunch, world-class barista coffee, sports and leisure activities, Friday afternoon drinks, and weekly in-house chair massages
• Competitive relocation packages and visa sponsorship where necessary for expats
  
  

How to apply
Are you interested in furthering your career on one of the most dynamic and exciting trading floors in Europe?
Apply directly via the form below for the position of Senior Network Engineer. If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruitment team at our recruitment inquiry form.

Please note:

• We cannot accept applications via email for data protection reasons.
• We do not require any assistance from third-parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role
  
  

Diversity Statement
Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.

Optiver's Production Engineering teams manage our live trading environment, which is active across 50+ global exchanges and hundreds of thousands of interconnected financial products. Our world-class infrastructure is a combination of vastly distributed systems, high-performance computing and low-latency trading algorithms, as well as high-throughput dataflows and data analysis. To keep pace with the ever-changing markets, Optiver must always react with speed, and therefore takes an in-house approach to building, analysing, managing and improving our custom infrastructure. Taking this autonomy a step further, Optiver's huge volumes of data are stored at our own data centre rather than in the cloud. Our technological independence enables us to evolve our systems on a daily basis, operating with tight feedback loops and quick development cycles. The challenge is balancing innovation with reliability and performance in such a complex, time-pressured environment – and that's exactly where you come in. 

What you'll do
As a Production Engineer, you'll be responsible for deploying, maintaining, monitoring and improving the reliability, scalability and performance of our in-house built trading systems. At Optiver, reliability means prevention and swift resolution across our software, to guarantee optimum functioning even in the most extreme market conditions. Having a decisive nature, engineering mindset and preference for simple solutions are essential to keeping our systems reliable.

The Production Engineer role is crucial for Optiver's trading activities. Your scope will cover market access, monitoring and compliance, strategy evaluation and management, performance tuning and trading automation. Sitting in the middle of our buzzing trading floor, you will have constant face-to-face interaction with end-users (Traders and Researchers as well as fellow Engineers). This is an engineering role, not a support role, so you'll set the standards for our production environment. As part of our core business, you will make a real, direct impact on our ability to trade and trading results. No two days are the same in our high-stakes, flat-hierarchy environment.

Learn more about a day in the life of a Production Engineer (we call this job Application Engineer internally) in this blog post and this video. 

Who you are

• You are a pragmatic, logical thinker.
• With a facilitating and enabling attitude, you always strive to find clean and simple solutions.
• You are naturally curious about hardware and software, and how these interact.
• You want to work on a broad range of projects and use various tools to best solve any problem at hand.
• With a hands-on approach, you can look at code, figure out how it works and explore how to make it better.
• You are able to clearly explain your thoughts through written and verbal communication, ask the right questions, and are not afraid to challenge or defend a strategy. 
• You seek out opportunities to leave your comfort zone and enjoy frequent change.

In terms of skillset, we're looking for:

• Experience managing day-to-day operations of software and hardware infrastructure
• Strong affinity with Unix/Linux systems
• The ability to automate tasks using Python
• Strong design, debugging, and problem solving skills
• Experience with relational databases (e.g. we use PostgreSQL but welcome experience with any other database);
• An understanding of networking fundamentals and protocols.

No prior trading or financial experience is needed – our onboarding program will kick-start your career at Optiver and support you in gaining all the relevant knowledge about our business.

Who we are
At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing 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. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.

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. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the toughest 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
• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries
• 25 paid vacation days and fully paid first-class commuting expenses
• Training opportunities and discounts on health insurance
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast and lunch, world-class barista coffee, sports and leisure activities, Friday afternoon drinks, and weekly in-house chair massages
• Competitive relocation packages and visa sponsorship where necessary for expats
  
  

How to apply
Are you interested in furthering your career on one of the most dynamic and exciting trading floors in Europe?
Apply directly via the form below for the position of Production Engineer. If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruiter team via our recruitment inquiry form.

Please note:

• We cannot accept applications via email for data protection reasons.
• We do not require any assistance from third-parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role
  
  

Diversity statement
Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.

Optiver's Production Engineering teams manage our live trading environment, which is active across 50+ global exchanges and hundreds of thousands of interconnected financial products. Our world-class infrastructure is a combination of vastly distributed systems, high-performance computing and low-latency trading algorithms, as well as high-throughput dataflows and data analysis. To keep pace with the ever-changing markets, Optiver must always react with speed, and therefore takes an in-house approach to building, analysing, managing and improving our custom infrastructure. Taking this autonomy a step further, Optiver's huge volumes of data are stored at our own data centre rather than in the cloud. Our technological independence enables us to evolve our systems on a daily basis, operating with tight feedback loops and quick development cycles. The challenge is balancing innovation with reliability and performance in such a complex, time-pressured environment – and that's exactly where you come in. 

What you'll do
As a Production Engineer, you'll be responsible for deploying, maintaining, monitoring and improving the reliability, scalability and performance of our in-house built trading systems. At Optiver, reliability means prevention and swift resolution across our software, to guarantee optimum functioning even in the most extreme market conditions. Having a decisive nature, engineering mindset and preference for simple solutions are essential to keeping our systems reliable.

The Production Engineer role is crucial for Optiver's trading activities. Your scope will cover market access, monitoring and compliance, strategy evaluation and management, performance tuning and trading automation. Sitting in the middle of our buzzing trading floor, you will have constant face-to-face interaction with end-users (Traders and Researchers as well as fellow Engineers). This is an engineering role, not a support role, so you'll set the standards for our production environment. As part of our core business, you will make a real, direct impact on our ability to trade and trading results. No two days are the same in our high-stakes, flat-hierarchy environment.

Learn more about a day in the life of a Production Engineer (we call this job Application Engineer internally) in this blog post and this video. 

Who you are

• You are a pragmatic, logical thinker.
• With a facilitating and enabling attitude, you always strive to find clean and simple solutions.
• You are naturally curious about hardware and software, and how these interact.
• You want to work on a broad range of projects and use various tools to best solve any problem at hand.
• With a hands-on approach, you can look at code, figure out how it works and explore how to make it better.
• You are able to clearly explain your thoughts through written and verbal communication, ask the right questions, and are not afraid to challenge or defend a strategy. 
• You seek out opportunities to leave your comfort zone and enjoy frequent change.

In terms of skillset, we're looking for:

• Experience managing day-to-day operations of software and hardware infrastructure
• Strong affinity with Unix/Linux systems
• The ability to automate tasks using Python
• Strong design, debugging, and problem solving skills
• Experience with relational databases (e.g. we use PostgreSQL but welcome experience with any other database);
• An understanding of networking fundamentals and protocols.

No prior trading or financial experience is needed – our onboarding program will kick-start your career at Optiver and support you in gaining all the relevant knowledge about our business.

Who we are
At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing 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. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.

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. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the toughest 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
• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries
• 25 paid vacation days and fully paid first-class commuting expenses
• Training opportunities and discounts on health insurance
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast and lunch, world-class barista coffee, sports and leisure activities, Friday afternoon drinks, and weekly in-house chair massages
• Competitive relocation packages and visa sponsorship where necessary for expats
  
  

How to apply
Are you interested in furthering your career on one of the most dynamic and exciting trading floors in Europe?
Apply directly via the form below for the position of Production Engineer. If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruiter team via our recruitment inquiry form.

Please note:

• We cannot accept applications via email for data protection reasons.
• We do not require any assistance from third-parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role
  
  

Diversity statement
Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.

Based in Amsterdam or London - please apply to the opening of your preferred base location.  This opening is for Amsterdam.

As one of the world’s leading Market Making firms, we at Optiver pride ourselves on our ability to improve the market by providing liquidity in all market conditions. Our Institutional Sales teams are central to that success, trading directly with counterparties across the globe. 

As we look to continue our growth, we are seeking an experienced and dynamic institutional sales.  The ideal candidate has experience building relationships within the German cash equity market and possesses strong selling capabilities. In this role, you will have the opportunity to make a big impact to our business by driving revenue and building out our market participant network.

Who we are:

At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing 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. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.

What you’ll do:

As an Institutional Sales you will have the chance to play key role in growing Optiver's DCP (direct counterparty) franchise. As well as growing more DCP interactions, you will play a part of helping steer the trading desks' evolution and growth into new markets. Specifically you will:

• Establish, develop, and maintain relationships with counterparts in the German cash equity space;
• Assist traders in their direct trading with counterparts - guiding on sequence dialogue and giving context to help trading price most effectively;
• Support trading's growing understanding of both individual and wider DCP sector trading, to help inform their trading efforts;
• Develop participant profiles, reports and analyses;
• Work with marketing team to develop and maintain content as it pertains to direct trading initiatives;
• Attend conferences and seminars for related products.

Who you are:

• Extensive experience in cash equity Institutional Sales.
• Detailed knowledge of and established professional network in the German cash equity market.
• Relevant experience within top tier competitor or global investment bank highly desirable.
• Strong experience building relationships within cash equities space and strong selling capabilities.
• Willingness to travel and meet face to face with prospective and current counterparties.
• An ability to entertain and manage the organisation of events.
• Strong communication skills.
• Entrepreneurial mindset willing to take ownership in order to develop exciting projects.
• A pro-active nature that allows you to learn quickly and impact counterparties autonomously.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
• Deep understanding of rules and regulations governing the markets we trade.

What you’ll get:

The chance to further your career working alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries.

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

Healthy work-life balance; we believe in efficiency and autonomy and do not glorify unhealthy working hours

Alongside this you will get great secondary benefits such as 25 paid vacation days, fully paid first-class commuting expenses, training opportunities, discounts on health insurance, breakfast, lunch and facilities, sports and leisure activities, Friday afternoon drinks and even weekly in-house chair massages. Being highly international, we are accustomed to guiding expats through their relocation, offering competitive relocation packages and providing visa sponsorship where necessary.

How to apply:

Apply directly via the form below for the position of Cash Equity German Institutional Sales. If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruitment team via our recruitment inquiry form. If we think there is a potential match, you will hear from us sooner than you expect. Please note, we cannot accept applications via email for data protection reasons.

Kindly note that we do not require any assistance from third-parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role.

DIVERSITY STATEMENT:

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.

More information on how Optiver Europe processes your personal data can be found in our Privacy Policy. 

The Trading Operations Production Support Engineering team is responsible for maintaining and scaling Optiver’s low-latency trading systems. The team ensures a safe, stable, and efficient production environment while supporting profitability and sustainable growth across various regions. Collaborating closely with traders, development, and operational teams, the engineer will deploy, monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize our trading infrastructure to enhance reliability, performance, and automation.

What you'll do

• Provide technical expertise and support to high-frequency trading floors, troubleshooting complex issues and resolving incidents in a fast-paced, dynamic setting.
• Deploy, maintain, and monitor proprietary trading applications, ensuring stability and performance in the trading environment.
• Review and analyze incidents to identify recurring themes, driving improvements to enhance automation and operational efficiency.
• Coordinate deployments of new trading products, systems, and exchanges, ensuring readiness for events such as corporate actions or special announcements.
• Architect and maintain services to maximize reliability, ensuring the trading systems operate within performance thresholds.
• Collaborate with development teams to establish best practices and ensure the long-term stability of production systems, even under extreme conditions.
• Set standards for system configuration and deployment to minimize risks and support smooth scaling.
• Manage the colocation to ensure the right level of redundancy and capacity for growth is available.
• Automate system management processes, while maintaining control over critical operations.
  
  

Who you are
Technical Skills:

• Solid experience managing complex distributed systems in Linux environments (L2/L3 support), with a strong understanding of networking fundamentals, build, deployment, and version control systems.
• Proficiency with CI/CD tooling and scripting in Python or similar languages to automate tasks.
• Experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL) or other database systems.
• Demonstrated ability to drive system improvements and work across global teams to deliver changes.

Non-Technical Skills:

• A collaborative team player with a positive attitude, capable of coordinating effectively across departments.
• A pragmatic and logical thinker who thrives under pressure in high-intensity environments, with strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to resolve incidents efficiently.
• Effective communicator, able to clearly explain technical concepts and ask insightful questions.
• Highly organized, able to manage multiple responsibilities while keeping stakeholders informed.
• Passionate about technology, curious about the interaction between hardware and software, and driven to learn and grow by embracing frequent change.
• Prior experience in high-frequency trading environments is a plus, but not required.

No prior trading or financial experience is needed – our onboarding program will kick-start your career at Optiver and support you in gaining all the relevant knowledge about our business.

Who we are
At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing 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. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.

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. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the toughest problems in the financial markets.

In addition, you’ll receive:

• A performance-based bonus structure, enabling all of our employees to benefit from our global profit pool.
• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 50 different countries.
• 25 paid vacation days in your first year, increasing to 30 from your second year onwards.
• Training opportunities, discounts on health insurance, and fully paid first-class commuting expenses.
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and dinner, world-class barista coffee, in-house physio and chair massages, organized sports and leisure activities, and Friday afternoon drinks.
• Training and continuous learning opportunities, including access to conferences and tech events.
  
  

How to apply
Are you interested in furthering your career on one of the most dynamic and exciting trading floors in Europe?
Apply directly via the form below for the position of Trading Operations Engineer. If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruiter team via recruitment inquiry form.
Please note:

• We cannot accept applications via email for data protection reasons.
• We do not require any assistance from third-parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role

Diversity statement
Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.

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

• Minimum of 6 years professional experience in developing python applications

• 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

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

WHO WE ARE

At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing 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. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.

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. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the toughest problems in the financial markets.

In addition, you’ll receive:

• A performance-based bonus structure, enabling all of our employees to benefit from our global profit pool

• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 50 different countries

• 25 paid vacation days in your first year, increasing to 30 from your second year onwards

• Training opportunities, discounts on health insurance, and fully paid first-class commuting expenses

• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and dinner, world-class barista coffee, in-house physio and chair massages, organized sports and leisure activities, and Friday afternoon drinks

• Training and continuous learning opportunities, including access to conferences and tech events

• Competitive relocation packages and visa sponsorship where necessary for expats

HOW TO APPLY

Are you interested in furthering your career on one of the most dynamic and exciting trading floors in Europe?

Apply directly via the form below. If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruitment team via our recruitment inquiry form.

Please note:

• We do not require any assistance from third-parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role

• We cannot accept applications via email’

DIVERSITY STATEMENT

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.

We are seeking a proactive, curious and hands-on Information Security Risk Analyst to join our global Business Information Security Officers (BISO) team. This role is ideal for someone early in their security career who enjoys a varied workload, thrives in a fast-paced environment, and wants to deepen their expertise in the business side of security. 

What you'll do 

As an Information Security Risk Analyst (Business), you will support Optiver’s global BISO team in ensuring that our information security controls, policies, and assurance activities are effective, pragmatic, and aligned with real-world business operations. You will play a key role in the day-to-day execution of our governance, risk and compliance workstreams, collaborating closely with colleagues in Europe, APAC & US.  

Your responsibilities will include: 

• Assist with policy maintenance, tracking implementation progress, and ensuring business adoption across global locations.
• Contribute to regulatory and audit responses by gathering evidence, interpreting requirements, and producing clear, accurate inputs.
• Support the management of the global security training and awareness program.
• Coordinate and support regular security control assessments, risk reviews, and assurance activities to verify that controls are operating as intended.
• Help maintain and strengthen Optiver’s control framework by identifying gaps, driving follow-up actions, and collaborating with technical and business teams.
• Support data analysis and automation efforts to streamline reporting, improve accuracy, and enable more efficient GRC processes. 

This is a high-impact, hands-on role with significant variety. You will learn quickly, contribute meaningfully, and become a trusted partner for teams across the organisation. 

Who you are

• At least 2 years of professional experience in information security, technology risk, GRC, or a related field, ideally in an in-house environment. 
• Experience in project management.  
• Solid understanding of fundamental information security concepts.  
• Comfortable managing multiple priorities concurrently while maintaining high-quality output under time pressure. 
• Strong communication skills (written and verbal), with the ability to convey clear, concise updates to both technical and business stakeholders. 
• Able to work effectively across global teams and time zones, while also operating independently and knowing when to align. 
• Comfortable using modern tools, including data analysis/reporting platforms, and leveraging AI to improve efficiency and quality. 
• Pragmatic and structured in problem-solving, with a focus on practical, outcome-driven solutions.  
• Proactive, accountable, and curious, with a strong sense of ownership and a desire to continuously learn and deepen expertise.
• Nice to Have:
  • Exposure to NIST, ISO27001, or similar frameworks (practical understanding preferred over theoretical knowledge).
  • Experience in contributing to activities such as control assessments, policy implementation projects, audits, and training programs. 

Who we are

At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing 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. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.

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. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the toughest 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.
• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 50 different countries.
• 25 paid vacation days in your first year, increasing to 30 from your second year onwards.
• Training opportunities, discounts on health insurance, and fully paid first-class commuting expenses.
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and dinner, world-class barista coffee, in-house physio and chair massages, organized sports and leisure activities, and Friday afternoon drinks.
• Training and continuous learning opportunities, including access to conferences and tech events.
• Competitive relocation packages and visa sponsorship where necessary for expats.

How to apply

Apply directly via the form below. If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruitment team via our recruitment inquiry form.

Please note:

• We do not require any assistance from third-parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role
• We cannot accept applications via email

Diversity statement

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.

Optiver is one of the most reputable and innovative market makers in the world. We offer a unique opportunity to join our Global Strategy team as a Global Strategy Manager. In this role, you will work directly with the firm’s senior leadership on the toughest challenges to protect our competitive positioning and successfully expand our impact and footprint. Join a small team of experienced strategists to deliver impact at pace. This role offers exceptional career opportunities, a highly competitive rewards structure, and dynamic career growth options.     

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Lead and deliver high-impact strategy projects that address some of Optiver’s most important and ambiguous business challenges.  

• Partner closely with the Executive Committee and senior business leaders as a trusted thought partner, providing clear, concrete insights and recommendations.  

• Drive complex, cross-functional initiatives end-to-end, ensuring alignment, momentum, and tangible outcomes across the firm. 

WHO YOU ARE

• 5-10 years of relevant work experience, for example, at a leading tech firm, a financial institution, a top-tier consulting firm, or a private equity firm.  

• Exceptional analytical and conceptual problem-solving skills; capable of thinking strategically while paying attention to detail.  

• Excellent project management skills.  

• Strong stakeholder management skills.  

• Experience in performing data-driven analyses.  

• Strong sense of ownership and personal responsibility.  

• Hands-on mentality and can-do attitude to achieve results.  

• Ability to quickly grasp new topics and make them their own.  

• Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to convert complex issues into succinct insights. 

WHO WE ARE

At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing 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. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.

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. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the toughest problems in the financial markets.

In addition, you’ll receive:

• A performance-based bonus structure, enabling all of our employees to benefit from our global profit pool.

• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 50 different countries.

• 25 paid vacation days in your first year, increasing to 30 from your second year onwards.

• Training opportunities, discounts on health insurance, and fully paid first-class commuting expenses.

• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and dinner, world-class barista coffee, in-house physio and chair massages, organized sports and leisure activities, and Friday afternoon drinks.

• Training and continuous learning opportunities, including access to conferences and tech events.

• Competitive relocation packages and visa sponsorship where necessary for expats.

HOW TO APPLY

Apply directly via the form below. If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruitment team via our recruitment inquiry form. 

Please note: 

• We do not require any assistance from third-parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role 

• We cannot accept applications via email 

DIVERSITY STATEMENT

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.

As a Senior Technical Program Manager – Infrastructure, you’ll help scale and evolve the systems that form the backbone of Optiver’s competitive advantage.
Optiver’s infrastructure is optimized for speed, reliability, and scale. You’ll partner with world-class engineers to deliver large-scale infrastructure programs - spanning data centers, hardware, and global network connectivity - ensuring we continue to operate at the cutting edge of performance. This role demands both technical depth and execution excellence, as you’ll lead programs that enable growth while maintaining the uncompromising standards of quality and reliability that underpin every trade.

What you’ll do
In Optiver’s fast-paced environment, you will work alongside engineers and leaders to deliver multiple projects that support the firm’s strategic growth and take Optiver to the next level. 

As a Senior Technical Program Manager, your key responsibilities include: 

• Lead delivery of global infrastructure programs - from data center expansion and hardware lifecycle management to network and platform modernization.
• Partner with engineering and operations leadership to define scope, manage dependencies, and drive execution across teams.
• Build program frameworks to track progress, manage risk, and improve delivery predictability.
• Drive continuous improvement in infrastructure planning, capacity management, and process maturity.
• Ensure alignment between infrastructure, development, and trading stakeholders to support Optiver’s global growth.

Who you are

• Highly self-motivated and thrive in environments with minimal oversight. You take full ownership, show initiative, manage your own priorities effectively and keep momentum even when direction isn’t fully defined
• Hold a degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or a related STEM field.
• Have 5+ years of experience in engineering (IT infrastructure, hardware, or networks) and/or technical program management in a high-performance environment
• AI-first mindset with experience leveraging generative or agentic AI to automate workflows, improve program visibility, and enhance productivity
• Strong technical understanding of data centers, compute, storage, and network systems.
• Proven success leading large-scale, complex infrastructure or hardware delivery programs.
• Excellent communicator and structured problem-solver with a bias for action.
• Motivated by building and scaling the systems that power high-performance trading.

Who we are
At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing 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. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.

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. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the toughest problems in the financial markets.

In addition, you’ll receive:

• A performance-based bonus structure, enabling all of our employees to benefit from our global profit pool.
• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 50 different countries.
• 25 paid vacation days in your first year, increasing to 30 from your second year onwards.
• Training opportunities, discounts on health insurance, and fully paid first-class commuting expenses.
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and dinner, world-class barista coffee, in-house physio and chair massages, organized sports and leisure activities, and Friday afternoon drinks.
• Training and continuous learning opportunities, including access to conferences and tech events.
• Competitive relocation packages and visa sponsorship where necessary for expats.

How to apply
Apply directly via the form below. If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruitment team via our recruitment inquiry form.
Please note:

• We do not require any assistance from third-parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role
• We cannot accept applications via email
  
  

Diversity Statement
Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.

Optiver is looking for a Senior Network Engineer with a passion for solving problems and reducing complexity. You will join a team responsible for owning the networks that our industry-leading proprietary trading systems rely on. From day one, your contributions to the design, optimization and maintenance of our globally distributed networks will allow our traders and engineers to continue operating at the highest level of performance, making a direct impact to our business.

Speed, reliability and scalability is at the center of everything that we do.

What you'll do
Working in Optiver’s Network Engineering team will see you contributing to challenges scaling across low-latency, network automation, data center and WAN technologies through to colocation design and enterprise security to support our competitive market-making business. We're not interested in siloes, our engineers touch everything.

Specifically you will do the following:

• Provide technical expertise to enable a high frequency trading floor in a competitive market-making environment;
• Identify, design and implement network optimizations;
• Automate and eliminate manual elements of our network infrastructure;
• Assist with planned upgrades and maintenance (migrations, expansions, hardware and software upgrades);
• Ensure all aspects of our WAN network function correctly across our global data centers and colocations;
• Contribute to capacity planning, connectivity improvements and traffic flow optimization;
• Contribute to the ongoing standardization of our environments & our Infrastructure as Code vision.
  
  

Who you are

• Passionate about network performance, monitoring & capacity planning;
• Confident with a variety of network monitoring and alerting tools;
• Experience with LAN and WAN technologies;
• In depth experience with network transport & routing protocols (TCP/UDP, OSPF, BGP, Multicast);
• Comfortable working in a multi-vendor environment (Cisco, Arista, Palo Alto);
• Experience with network security and firewalls;
• Confident in Python scripting for automation or have an evidenced interest in developing this area;
• Strong communication skills, ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical colleagues across Trading and other business areas;
• Experience with low-latency networking, configuration management tooling functions, time series databases and centralized logging solutions are all beneficial.
  
  

Who we are
At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing 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. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.

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. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the toughest 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
• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries
• 25 paid vacation days and fully paid first-class commuting expenses
• Training opportunities and discounts on health insurance
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast and lunch, world-class barista coffee, sports and leisure activities, Friday afternoon drinks, and weekly in-house chair massages
• Competitive relocation packages and visa sponsorship where necessary for expats
  
  

How to apply
Are you interested in furthering your career on one of the most dynamic and exciting trading floors in Europe?
Apply directly via the form below for the position of Senior Network Engineer. If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruitment team at our recruitment inquiry form.

Please note:

• We cannot accept applications via email for data protection reasons.
• We do not require any assistance from third-parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role
  
  

Diversity Statement
Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.

As a German Bunds Volatility Trader at Optiver, you will take a leading role in trading and risk-managing interest rate volatility across the German government bond complex – Bund, Bobls and Schatz. This role blends the fast-paced decision-making of a screen trader with the relationship-driven insights of an institutional trader. You’ll operate at the intersection of liquidity provision, market structure expertise, and client interaction helping Optiver to maintain its position as a leading liquidity provider in European fixed income markets.

What you’ll do

• Trade and actively manage volatility risk across German Bunds and related fixed-income derivatives, leveraging Optiver’s proprietary pricing models, execution infrastructure, and real-time risk systems.
• Quote, price, and execute options and volatility trades for institutional counterparties, ensuring competitive markets, tight spreads, and efficient hedging across Bunds, Bobls, and Schatz products.
• Collaborate with quantitative researchers, developers, and fellow traders to refine volatility surfaces, optimize execution algorithms, and enhance risk and pricing models for interest rate options.
• Continuously analyze macroeconomic, central bank, and market microstructure developments that influence European sovereign bond volatility, identifying and acting on trading opportunities in real time.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with counterparties, brokers, and market participants to strengthen Optiver’s position as a leading liquidity provider in European rates volatility.
• Contribute to the strategic expansion of Optiver’s volatility trading capabilities, including new products, cross-market strategies, and innovations in the European fixed income and derivatives landscape.

Who you are

• Bachelor’s degree or higher or equivalent in a quantitative discipline
• Experience in European government bonds volatility trading.
• Experience specifically within German Bunds (options) are strong advantage.
• Proven ability to manage risk and interpret macro drivers in the rates markets.
• Excellent communication and proven ability to build relationships with institutional counterparties.
• Proficiency in Python is a plus, as is familiarity with electronic trading systems (e.g., MTS, Eurex, Bloomberg, Tradeweb).

Who we are 

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

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. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the toughest 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.
• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 50 different countries.
• 25 paid vacation days in your first year, increasing to 30 from your second year onwards.
• Training opportunities, discounts on health insurance, and fully paid first-class commuting expenses.
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and dinner, world-class barista coffee, in-house physio and chair massages, organized sports and leisure activities, and Friday afternoon drinks.
• Training and continuous learning opportunities, including access to conferences and tech events.
• Competitive relocation packages and visa sponsorship where necessary for expats.

How to apply

Are you interested in furthering your career on one of the most dynamic and exciting trading floors in Europe?

Apply directly via the form below. If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruitment team via recruitment@optiver.com.

 Diversity statement

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.

As a global market maker, Optiver trades hundreds of thousands of financial instruments on exchanges around the world. By continuously providing quotes – both bids to buy and offers to sell – we play a vital role in the healthy functioning of markets.  

We are looking for a Senior VDI Platform Engineer to improve our global, large-scale virtual desktop platform supporting users across multiple regions. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on the reliability, performance, and continuous improvement of a session-based desktop environment used in latency-sensitive workflows.

The role places strong emphasis on automation, operational repeatability, and data-driven troubleshooting. You will work on improving how the platform is operated over time, using scripting, metrics, and evidence-based analysis to resolve performance issues, reduce operational complexity, and eliminate recurring incidents.

This is a platform engineering role focused on virtual desktop infrastructure, not a device management or modern workplace position.

What you'll do

• Operate and improve a large-scale virtual desktop infrastructure platform used by global users
• Plan and execute platform upgrades and lifecycle changes across desktop images, agents, and infrastructure components
• Troubleshoot performance, stability, and user-experience issues using system metrics, session telemetry, and operational data
• Diagnose and resolve authentication and login-related issues involving Active Directory, group policies, certificates, and SSO integrations
• Design and implement automation and repeatable operational processes using PowerShell and API-driven tooling
• Use monitoring and operational data to drive capacity planning, tuning, and remediation decisions
• Analyse and address resource contention across compute, memory, storage, network, and GPU resources where applicable
• Work closely with infrastructure, networking, and security teams on cross-domain issues affecting the platform
• Investigate and remediate incidents related to login latency, session instability, profile behaviour, and desktop performance
• Continuously reduce manual operational effort through scripting, standardisation, and platform improvements

Who you are

• A senior engineer with 7+ years of experience operating virtual desktop or EUC infrastructure platforms in production environments
• Experienced troubleshooting session-based desktop environments, including login flows, authentication dependencies, and desktop performance issues
• Comfortable working across infrastructure layers including virtualization, storage, networking, identity services, and endpoint images
• Experienced in applying automation and infrastructure-as-code thinking to improve reliability and operational consistency
• Data-driven in how you troubleshoot and optimise systems, using metrics and evidence rather than assumptions
• Execution-focused, with a strong bias toward resolving root causes rather than recurring symptoms
• Calm and methodical under pressure, especially when diagnosing complex incidents affecting end users
• Clear communicator able to explain technical decisions using evidence, impact, and operational context

Who we are

At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing 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. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.

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. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the toughest problems in the financial markets.

In addition, you’ll receive:

• A performance-based bonus structure, enabling all of our employees to benefit from our global profit pool.
• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 50 different countries.
• 25 paid vacation days in your first year, increasing to 30 from your second year onwards.
• Training opportunities, discounts on health insurance, and fully paid first-class commuting expenses.
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and dinner, world-class barista coffee, in-house physio and chair massages, organized sports and leisure activities, and Friday afternoon drinks.
• Training and continuous learning opportunities, including access to conferences and tech events.

How to apply

Apply directly via the form below. If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruitment team via our recruitment inquiry form.

Diversity statement

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.

When you start your career at Optiver, you’ll own the entire development pipeline, from idea generation to development, testing and monitoring. As we iterate and release new versions of our platform multiple times a week, you’ll never have to wait to see the impact of your work.

Optiver’s FPGA team build hardware-based trading systems ranging from low latency algorithms to high bandwidth computation. Our engineers leverage the latest technologies, techniques, and hardware to ensure the fastest and most reliable trading systems that are crucial to Optiver’s success.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

As a Junior FPGA Engineer, you’ll work in a team of FPGA Hardware and Software Engineers to design and maintain our proprietary trading systems. Your goal is to find the simplest solutions to the most complex problems.

From day one, you’ll have a direct impact on the success of our trading strategies by producing highly-reliable FPGA designs that secure the lowest latency possible. You’ll be part of a collaborative, fast-paced and respectful engineering environment that focuses on continuous improvement.

During your first months at Optiver, you’ll learn the ins-and-outs of our trading systems and the engineering principles that make them successful. No prior financial experience is required, as we’ll also offer you our “Trading for Non-Traders” program, to get you fully up to speed on this fascinating industry. 

WHO YOU ARE:

• You have a university degree in Electronic Engineering or Computer Engineering or similar

• You have digital academic design experience with FPGAs or ASICs

• You have Academic Experience in VHDL, Verilog, or SystemVerilog

• Have an open, collaborative, self-critical attitude and willingness to learn from your mistakes

• The desire to understand how the systems you build fit into our trading activities

WHO WE ARE:

At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing 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. We tackle the toughest problems, challenge the status quo, and always aim for excellence. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.

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. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the toughest 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.

• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 50 different countries.

• 25 paid vacation days in your first year, increasing to 30 from your second year onwards.

• Training opportunities, discounts on health insurance, and fully paid first-class commuting expenses.

• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and dinner, world-class barista coffee, in-house physio and chair massages, organized sports and leisure activities, and Friday afternoon drinks.

• Training and continuous learning opportunities, including access to conferences and tech events.

• Competitive relocation packages and visa sponsorship where necessary for expats.

HOW TO APPLY:

Apply directly via the form below. 

For applicants based in India, our entry route is via the placement office internship hiring season (July/August).

*We accept one application per role per year. 

DIVERSITY STATEMENT:

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.