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You'll collaborate with engineers, recruiters, and educators across the business to create engaging learning experiences for classroom delivery, improve technical assessments, and continuously evolve how we develop engineering talent at Optiver. \nWhat you'll do \nAs a Technology Educator, your key responsibilities include: \nDesigning and deliveringtechnical interview assessments to ensure a consistent, high-quality hiring process\nDeveloping and leadingtechnical training programs for interns, graduates, and experienced hires through workshops, coding labs, simulations, and coaching\nCollaborating with engineering teams to integrate new software development and AI practices into training and assessment\nPartnering with engineering and recruiting teams to connect hiring directly to on-the-job performance\nDriving improvements toassessment and curricula through analysis of performance outcomes and participant feedback\nGrowing the Education function by identifyingopportunities for the firm to improve the quality of its engineers\nWhat you'll get \nYou'll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, 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, collectively tackling some of the toughest challenges in the financial markets. \nIn addition, you'll receive: \nThe opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries\nHighly competitive compensation package including performance-based bonus structure\n401(k) match up to 50%\nComprehensive health, mental, dental, vision, disability, and life coverage\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 \nSubstantial hands-on software engineering experience with strong technical depth\nExperience mentoring, teaching, coaching, or developing other engineers through training, curriculum design, technical assessments, or similar initiatives\nExcellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to engineers at different experiencelevels\nPassion for developing technical talent and creating engaging, effective learning experiences\nA collaborative mindset and the ability to partner with engineering, recruitment, and education teams to improve technical development programs\nExperience designing technical assessments or interview processes is a plus\nFamiliarity with agenticdevelopment, adult learning principles, or instructional design is a plus\nExposure to high-performance, low-latency, or trading systems is a plus\nLegal authorization to work in the U.S. is required; we will not sponsor individuals for employment authorization for this job opening\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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