Jobs at Optiver

Lead Optiver’s global mobility function, overseeing complex international moves, immigration, tax, employment considerations, governance, vendors, and service delivery. Develop and manage a globally distributed mobility team while partnering with senior leaders, HRBPs, and People teams. Evolve the operating model through scalable processes, technology, AI, automation, data, and continuous improvement, balancing employee experience, business needs, compliance, risk, and operational effectiveness.

Provides legal advice to European trading businesses, including listed derivatives, commodities, market making, clearing, exchanges, and trading infrastructure. Leads complex negotiations, drafts and reviews financial markets agreements, advises on market structure and trading regulation, supports strategic initiatives, manages external counsel, and develops scalable legal processes and technology-enabled solutions. Partners closely with traders, compliance, risk, finance, operations, and technology teams.

Lead corporate strategy and commercial development for Optiver’s digital assets business. Responsibilities include market and regulatory analysis, opportunity assessment, market sizing, partnership development, commercial structuring, negotiation, strategy execution, integration workstreams, and external relationship management with exchanges, regulators, custodians, brokers, and industry participants.

Develop and optimize low-latency trading systems alongside traders, researchers, and risk analysts. Participate in training, own well-architected code, and apply knowledge of algorithms, concurrency, CPU architecture, operating systems and databases to support real-time market decisioning.

Ten-week software engineering internship building and shipping production code for Optiver's real-time trading systems. Work with mentors and cross-functional teams on performance-sensitive projects, learn trading fundamentals, and may receive a full-time offer based on performance.

Join as a graduate quantitative researcher to design, build, test and deploy statistical and machine learning models for pricing, forecasting and signal discovery using large-scale market and unstructured data. Collaborate with researchers, traders and engineers to monitor production models, refine assumptions, and accelerate research-to-production using AI-enabled workflows.

As a Data Software Engineer, you will enhance reference data products, establish technical direction, and ensure data quality and compliance within trading systems.

As a Senior Digital Assets Software Engineer, you will design and build trading systems, improve system reliability, and collaborate with traders to prototype trading strategies. Your role involves direct integration with cryptocurrency exchanges and contributing to the digital asset platform's architecture.

As a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, you will enhance Optiver's cloud systems for digital assets trading, focusing on performance, security, and resilience. Responsibilities include designing low-latency infrastructure, implementing CI/CD for changes, and managing cloud performance setups.