Graduate Software Engineer
OptiverAbout the Role
As a Graduate Software Engineer at Optiver, you will work on systems that operate in live financial markets where speed, reliability and precision directly affect trading outcomes. You'll collaborate with traders, researchers and engineers to understand problems and build solutions that respond to changing market conditions in real time.
- Build simple, well-architected solutions alongside traders, researchers, risk analysts and engineers
- Use frontier agentic tooling and build your own agents, skills and workflows to solve problems across the trading stack
- Improve performance, reliability and maintainability as markets and system requirements evolve
- Contribute tools and capabilities that other engineers and teams can reuse
- Participate in Optiver's comprehensive Global Academy training and receive mentorship to make an immediate impact
Requirements
- Bachelor's, Master's or PhD degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent, with outstanding academic achievements
- Graduating between August 2024 and August 2027, with a maximum of 3 years of work experience
- Passionate about clean code, simple, well-architected systems, and continuous improvement
- Proficient in industry-standard coding languages such as C++, Python, or Java, with a strong understanding of underlying computer architecture and system operations
- A solid grasp of algorithms, memory and concurrency models, CPU-architecture, operating systems and relational databases
- Have an entrepreneurial attitude and an interest in the financial industry
- An analytical mindset and strong problem-solving skills
- Able to work closely with other engineers, traders, researchers and business operations
What You'll Get
- 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 benefits, and fully paid first-class commuting expenses
- Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and dinner, world-class barista coffee, sport and leisure activities, bi-weekly massages and Friday afternoon drinks
- Training and continuous learning opportunities
- International transfer opportunities for global career growth
- Competitive relocation packages and visa sponsorship where necessary for expats