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About the Role
Lead large technical projects, set trading infrastructure direction, and leverage technology for business success in US cash equities and ETF markets. Develop systems for low-latency market data ingestion, efficient pricing, hedging, and order execution with minimal error tolerance. Refine, store, and analyze market data, and create responsive real-time user interfaces for complex system control.
Responsibilities
- Establish the vision and technical direction for major cash equities trading initiatives.
- Design, develop, support, and maintain low-latency equities trading infrastructure, including order management systems (OMS) and execution management systems (EMS).
- Contribute to pricing, research, and trading models for market-making and proprietary trading strategies in US equities and US ETFs.
- Develop a deep understanding of exchange-specific protocols, order book dynamics, and exchange connectivity.
- Optimize data processing pipelines for market data from multiple exchanges at scale, continuously improving execution speed and system performance.
- Work closely with FPGA engineers to leverage hardware acceleration for ultra-low-latency execution and integrate FPGAs with software-driven trading infrastructure.
- Collaborate with traders, engineers, and researchers to evolve execution logic and market impact models.
Requirements
- Familiarity with the market microstructure of the US Equities and/or US ETF markets.
- Strong engineering instincts and a deep understanding of computer science fundamentals.
- Programming experience across C++ or C, with other object-orientated languages also considered.
- Experience building large-scale low-latency trading systems, including market data ingestion, order routing, and execution performance.
- Experience with exchange connectivity, order matching, and execution logic for major venues.
- Experience optimizing high-throughput systems that process and react in real-time to market data streams.
- Familiarity with building and integrating FPGA-assisted trading systems.
- Innovative, big-picture thinking grounded in real-world pragmatism.
- Readiness to set technical direction, promote strong engineering principles, and continuously refine and optimize systems in a fast-moving environment.
- Ability to spot opportunities to enhance performance, efficiency, and maintainability.
Skills
- C++
- C
- Object-orientated languages
- Computer science fundamentals
- Engineering instincts
- Low-latency trading systems
- Market data ingestion
- Order routing
- Execution performance
- Exchange connectivity
- Order matching
- Execution logic
- Optimizing high-throughput systems
- Real-time data processing
- FPGA-assisted trading systems
- Innovative thinking
- Big-picture thinking
- Pragmatism
- Technical direction setting
- Strong engineering principles
- System optimization
- Performance enhancement
- Efficiency enhancement
- Maintainability enhancement
Salary/Compensations
- $200,000—$200,000 USD
Benefits
- Opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries.
- Ownership over initiatives that directly solve business problems.
- 401(k) match up to 50%.
- Fully paid health insurance.
- 25 paid vacation days alongside market holidays.
- Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and snacks, regular social events, clubs, and sporting leagues.
About the Company
- Optiver is a market-making institution focused on improving market health and efficiency by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency, and stabilizing markets. They are a respected partner on over 100 exchanges globally.
- Engineers apply a disciplined, scientific approach to solve business problems with simple, well-architected solutions, working closely with traders.
Equal Opportunity
- Our 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.