Optiver
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How Optiver hires
Truth index
B 84/100
Median time to fill
56 days
Ghost roles
26%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Optiver scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 143 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 26% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 56 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
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- United States · H-1B filings in 12 months: 51 · green card filings: 6
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Overview
Optiver is a Dutch proprietary trading firm founded in 1986 and headquartered in Amsterdam. It builds ultra-low-latency trading systems and hardware to provide liquidity on exchanges worldwide. The company is one of the largest technology employers in Amsterdam despite trading only its own capital.
News
Software engineering at a proprietary trading company: Optiver
A shift from a focus on latency to building better AI models, owning the full stack from applications to building custom hardware, very different incentives to most tech companies in play, and more
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Optiver Bolsters Institutional ETF Business With Senior Appointments
The firm expands sales trading and advisory capabilities.
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Optiver Opening First NYC Office With 23K SF at 360 Park Avenue South
Optiver has signed a long-term, 23,038-square-foot lease for prebuilt space across the BXP-owned building's entire 12th floor.
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Engineering at Optiver Tech Blog
Explore engineering articles from Optiver on building high-performance trading systems, from low-latency infrastructure to real-time pricing and execution.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Optiver over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
133
Postings analysed
119
Stack modernity
80/100AI adopter
Languages
Python59%
C++39%
Java11%
SQL8%
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch4%
CUDA4%
JAX3%
PyTorch C++3%
Databases
Delta Lake3%
PostgreSQL3%
ClickHouse2%
InfluxDB2%
Cloud & platforms
Linux19%
Databricks10%
Grafana8%
AWS7%
AI & ML
LLM3%
BERT1%
Mamba1%
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Full Optiver tech stack
133 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$200k
Typical range
$38k – $300k
Open positions
36
26
Jobs
Intern
19.2%
Junior
23.1%
Middle
15.4%
Senior
26.9%
Staff
15.4%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intern | 5 | $85k | $38k – $100k |
| Junior | 6 | $200k | $122k – $200k |
| Middle | 4 | $200k | $150k – $200k |
| Senior | 7 | $200k | $140k – $300k |
| Staff | 4 | $240k | $140k – $250k |
Highest paying role
Senior Tax Manager
$300k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Optiver
By role, level and city, against the market · 36 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
55/100
Growing
Open positions
144
5 opened / 10 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
67 days
faster than 20% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
18% ▼
Early Careers
17%
Hardware
10% ▼
AI/ML
7% ▲
DevOps
7% ▼
Data Science
6% ▲
Actively hiring for Early Careers (+5 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Edge AI to stack
Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Added HPC to stack
Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
15
Hiring now
10
Countries
9
Busiest office
Amsterdam
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Amsterdam
Netherlands
HQ
Netherlands
30 open roles 20 posted in 90 days 60% engineering 200-500 est. staff
hires for Backend, Data Science, Early Careers
Chicago
United States
Engineering / R&D
Chicago
36 open roles 17 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 500-1000 est. staff $177k Avg Salary
hires for Data Science, Early Careers, AI/ML
Sydney
Australia
Engineering / R&D
Shanghai
23 open roles 8 posted in 90 days 57% engineering 200-500 est. staff
hires for Data Science, Finance, Networking
Shanghai
China
Engineering / R&D
Shanghai
23 open roles 11 posted in 90 days 83% engineering 200-500 est. staff
hires for AI/ML, Backend, Data Science
Austin
United States
Engineering / R&D
Austin
19 open roles 7 posted in 90 days 63% engineering 200-500 est. staff $194k Avg Salary
hires for Data Science, Backend, Hardware
New York
United States
Engineering / R&D
New York
14 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 50-200 est. staff $204k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Data Science, Backend
London
United Kingdom
Engineering / R&D
Amsterdam
9 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 78% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Backend, Data Science, DevOps
Singapore
Singapore
Regional office
Singapore
5 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 40% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Early Careers, Backend, DevOps
Mumbai
India
Engineering / R&D
Mumbai
4 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for DevOps, Networking, Finance
Taipei
Taiwan
Regional office
Taiwan
2 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Industrial Engineering, Early Careers
Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Regional office
Hong Kong
Philadelphia
United States
Regional office
Philadelphia
Miami
United States
Regional office
Miami
Durham
United States
Regional office
Durham
Secaucus
United States
Regional office
New Jersey
Jobs
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$200k per year • In office • New York
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≈ $147k – $310k per year (Estimated) • In office • Austin
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Machine Learning
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$200k per year • In office • Chicago
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C++
CUDA Toolkit
CUDA
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$200k per year • In office • PhD • New York
Python
C++
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PyTorch C++
AI/ML
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TensorFlow
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CUDA
Triton
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Machine Learning
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