Software Engineer - Equities/ETFs
OptiverAbout the Role
Optiver is seeking Software Engineers specializing in the US cash equities and US ETF markets to help lead continued rapid growth. You will build out functionality across simulation, research, and production systems, including designing and maintaining low-latency equities trading infrastructure, order management systems (OMS), and execution management systems (EMS). You'll contribute to pricing, research, and trading models for market-making and proprietary trading strategies, develop deep understanding of exchange-specific protocols and order book dynamics, and optimize data processing pipelines to handle market data from multiple exchanges at scale.
- Design, develop, support, and maintain large portions of low-latency equities trading infrastructure
- Work closely with FPGA engineers to leverage hardware acceleration for ultra-low-latency execution
- Collaborate with traders, engineers, and researchers to evolve execution logic and market impact models
- Help establish vision and technical direction for major cash equities trading initiatives
Requirements
- Familiarity with the market microstructure of the US Equities and/or US ETF markets
- Strong engineering instincts and a deep understanding of computer science fundamentals
- Programming experience across C++ or C with other object-orientated languages also considered
- Experience building low-latency trading systems on a large scale including across market data ingestion, order routing and execution performance
- Experience with exchange connectivity, order matching, and execution logic for major venues
- Experience optimizing high-throughput systems that must process and react in real-time to streams of market data
- Familiarity with building and integrating FPGA-assisted trading systems
- Innovative, big-picture thinking grounded in real-world pragmatism
- Readiness to set technical direction, promote strong engineering principles and continuously seek ways to refine and optimize systems in a fast-moving, ever evolving environment
- You can spot opportunities to enhance performance, efficiency, and maintainability
What You'll Get
- $200k base salary
- The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries
- Ownership over initiatives that directly solve business problems
- 401(k) match up to 50% and fully paid health insurance
- 25 paid vacation days alongside market holidays
- Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and snacks, regular social events, clubs, sporting leagues and more