Senior Software Engineer
OptiverAbout the Role
Join Optiver's China Options team as a Software Engineer responsible for setting architectural direction, delivering well-engineered code, and owning projects that directly impact our cutting-edge trading systems. You will collaborate with Engineers, Traders, and Researchers to develop a deep understanding of trading and exchanges while innovating and maintaining the foundation of our global infrastructure.
- Own the design, development and deployment of services that comprise our globally distributed trading platform
- Build partnerships across the business to ensure we're feeding the best ideas into our solutions
- Build automated trading stack that runs machine learning models over high-performance servers to execute high-quality trades in low-latency
- Continuously improve our trading systems and strategies to optimize for the ever-evolving markets
Work in a fast-paced environment where developers collaborate closely with traders to ensure a short development lifecycle and quick feedback on the impact of your work.
Requirements
- At least 3 years' work experience as a Software Engineer
- Curious about how trading works and motivated to understand the business impact behind the technology you build
- Experience with large scale server side development, and high-throughput, low-latency system optimisations
- Technologists who are passionate about software and not only like to learn about it at work, but also like to get involved in their own projects at home
- Natural problem solvers who love nothing more than tackling a complex technical challenge
- Team players who love working with like-minded peers and are always looking to learn and improve
- Experience with making architectural recommendations on IT solutions, design & approach