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Motivated by continuous improvement, you'llthrive in a supportive, high-performing environment while tackling some of the toughest technical challenges in the financial markets.\nIn addition, you'llreceive:\nThe opportunity to work alongside world-class engineers and researchers from more than 40 countries\nA highly competitive compensation package, including a performance-based bonus\nA 401(k) match of up to 50%\nComprehensive medical, dental, vision, mental health, disability, and life insurance\n25 days of paid vacation, plus market holidays\nExtensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch, snacks, social events, clubs, sports leagues, and more\nWho you are\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related technical field\n6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including extensive production experience developing applications in Python\nStrong software engineering fundamentals, including software architecture, object-oriented design, design patterns, distributed systems, testing, and building scalable, resilient applications\nExperience designing, deploying, and operating production LLM applications, with practical knowledge of model evaluation, prompt engineering, tool calling, context management, agent orchestration, and common failure modes\nExperience defining evaluation frameworks and using quantitative metrics to guide model selection, prompt iteration, and production readiness\nExperience integrating AI systems with external tools, APIs, Model Context Protocol (MCP), and modern AI application frameworks\nStrong engineering judgment, with the ability to determine when AI is the right solution-and when traditional software or deterministic automation is more appropriate\nExperience building highly reliable production systems where correctness, resiliency, observability, and operational excellence are essential\nStrong product mindset, with the ability to translate ambiguous business problems into practical technical solutions that deliver measurable business outcomes\nExcellent communication and collaboration skills, with experience partnering directly with cross-functional teams and end users to refine requirements, challenge assumptions, and deliver scalable solutions\nStrong problem-solving skills and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment\nWho we are\nAt Optiver, our mission is to improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and stabilizing the market no matter the conditions. 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