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Team builds and runs the highly reliable, traceable and scalable pricing platform responsible for automated real-time pricing of millions of derivative contracts listed on 70+ exchanges. We continuously need to react to the new low latency pricing signals and instruct our execution to update our prices in all affected instruments. At the same time we need to continuously produce large volumes of various pricing datasets allowing us to trade, analyze and breakdown our trade quality, visualize and understand our positions, run automation, systematic analysis and trading strategies. All of this while allowing for a rapid development and pricing model research cycle with multiple releases per day.\nWhat you’ll do:\nWork directly with trading, researchers and other development teams in tightly knit working groups being responsible for overall success of the projects. We are not afraid of crossing team boundaries, learn about each other’s domain and apply this expertise in practice.\n\nApply your engineering background to translate business problems into robust, production grade software\n\nWork on our pricing platform - already a key competitive advantage - while helping push it even further by: optimizing our low-latency data processing\noptimizing our large scale compute \ndistribution of large volume datasets across multiple physical locations while ensuring consistency and atomicity\nincreasing automation to further reduce our time to market \n\nHave a direct impact on business with a tight feedback loop\n\nJoin a strong and dynamic team\n\nWho you are:\nA software engineer with an entrepreneurial mindset and the ability to strategically identify the tools which are best placed and where time is best spent, to achieve the results needed for our business to continue performing at the highest possible level.\nExperience designing and building large-scale, distributed or real-time systems\n\nStrong software engineering fundamentals and an interest in writing reliable, maintainable production code\n\nAbility to operate autonomously as well as collaborate with Traders, Researchers, other technical teams and business operations counterparts to deliver on complex business initiatives\n\nExperience with C++ is a plus\n\nInterest in systematic trading, derivatives pricing, or quantitative finance more broadly is a strong plus - but not a hard requirement; we will teach you what you need to know\n\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:\nA performance-based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool.\n\nThe opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries.\n\n25 paid vacation days and fully paid first-class commuting expenses.\n\nTraining opportunities and discounts on health insurance.\n\nExtensive office perks, including breakfast and lunch, world-class barista coffee, sports and leisure activities, Friday afternoon drinks, and weekly in-house chair massages.\n\nCompetitive relocation packages and visa sponsorship where necessary for expats.\n\nWho we are:\nAt Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing force no matter the market conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement, we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets for everyone who participates. 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