{"id":2176416,"url":"https://alion.io/job/optiver-software-engineer-equitiesetfs","title":"Software Engineer - Equities/ETFs","company":{"id":54501,"name":"Optiver","domain":"optiver.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/optiver","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":86,"open_postings":141,"ghost_share":0.241,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":56,"computed_at":"2026-10-12T06:55:09Z"}},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":null,"employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["New York, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":200000,"max":200000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":200000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"C++","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-04-24T15:41:41Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-08","last_verified_at":"2026-10-12T14:27:48Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":171,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":0,"flags":["company_stale"],"days_open":170},"description":"Optiver is seeking Software Engineers specializing in the US cash equities and US ETF markets to help lead our continued rapid growth across cash equities. Our Software Engineers lead large technical projects, help set the direction for our trading infrastructure, and leverage technology to enable business success.\nOur cash equities engineering team is building out systems that must ingest and react to market data feeds from major US exchanges in microseconds or less, efficiently price and hedge positions of single stocks and ETFs and execute orders with extremely low error tolerance. We continually refine, store, and analyze terabytes of data produced by market activity and our trading systems. Our user interfaces must present coherent, responsive real-time visualizations of market activity and system performance while providing intuitive control of a highly complex system. Our core systems must provide a stable, performant, and trusted foundation on which our systems are built.\nWhat you’ll do:\nIn this role you will be building out functionality across simulation, research, and production systems. Specifically, you will:\nHelp establish the vision and technical direction for major cash equities trading initiatives\nDesign, develop, support, and maintain large portions of our low-latency equities trading infrastructure, including order management systems (OMS) and execution management systems (EMS)\nContribute to our pricing, research and trading models that power our market-making and proprietary trading strategies in US equities and US ETFs\nDevelop a deep understanding of exchange-specific protocols, order book dynamics and exchanges connectivity\nOptimize data processing pipelines to handle market data from multiple exchanges at scale while continuously improving execution speed and system performance\nWork closely with FPGA engineers to leverage hardware acceleration for ultra-low-latency execution and explore novel ways to integrate FPGAs with software-driven trading infrastructure\nCollaborate deeply with traders, engineers, and researchers to help us evolve our execution logic and market impact models\nTechnology at Optiver:\nAt Optiver we pride ourselves on being real engineers, not just coders. Our engineers work closely with traders to identify the business problems we face and determine how they should be solved. We apply a disciplined and scientific approach. We engineer simple, well-architected solutions that meet the dynamic needs of our traders. Our passion is to solve problems which really matter to the business, and we take pride in the quality of our solutions.\nWhat you’ll get:\nYou’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the toughest problems in the financial markets.\nIn addition, you’ll receive:\nThe opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries\nOwnership over initiatives that directly solve business problems\n401(k) match up to 50% and fully paid health insurance\n25 paid vacation days alongside market holidays\nExtensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and snacks, regular social events, clubs, sporting leagues and more\nWho you are:\nFamiliarity with the market microstructure of the US Equities and/or US ETF markets\nStrong engineering instincts and a deep understanding of computer science fundamentals\nProgramming experience across C++ or C with other object-orientated languages also considered\nExperience building low-latency trading systems on a large scale including across market data ingestion, order routing and execution performance\nExperience with exchange connectivity, order matching, and execution logic for major venues\nExperience optimizing high-throughput systems that must process and react in real-time to streams of market data\nFamiliarity with building and integrating FPGA-assisted trading systems\nInnovative, big-picture thinking grounded in real-world pragmatism\nReadiness to set technical direction, promote strong engineering principles and continuously seek ways to refine and optimize systems in a fast-moving, ever evolving environment\nYou can spot opportunities to enhance performance, efficiency, and maintainability\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. With a focus on continuous improvement, we prioritize safeguarding the health and efficiency of the markets for all participants. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a respected partner on 100+ exchanges across the globe.\nOur differences are our edge. Optiver does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, or other legally protected characteristics.\nBelow is the expected base salary for this position. This position will also be eligible for a discretionary bonus and Optiver’s benefits package with the benefits listed above.\nBase Salary Range\n$200,000—$200,000 USD","description_format":"text","description_chars":5297,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Health insurance"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Hedge Funds & Alternative Investments"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-09T14:11:55Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 51 · green card filings: 6","filings_12m":51,"filings_prev_12m":39,"green_card_filings_12m":6,"median_offered_wage_usd":191974,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-03T21:08:04+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)","US Department of Labor: PERM disclosure data (green cards)"],"filings_for_role_12m":20}],"liveness":{"score":8,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.275,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":170,"expected_fill_days":56,"reasons":["conf:3","win:tail","crowd:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-12T06:55:09Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":200000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/optiver-software-engineer-equitiesetfs","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/optiver-software-engineer-equitiesetfs.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-12T18:06:37Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":29111,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-13T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":54501},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=54501"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Foptiver-software-engineer-equitiesetfs"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Foptiver-software-engineer-equitiesetfs"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Foptiver-software-engineer-equitiesetfs"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/optiver-software-engineer-equitiesetfs\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Foptiver-software-engineer-equitiesetfs"}]}