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About the Role

We are looking for an experienced software engineer and team leader to join our APAC Data Engineering Platform team. The team is responsible for developing Optiver’s next-generation data platform for research and real-time trading, covering orchestration, storage, access and governance of data at scale. This leadership role will have meaningful hands-on time across requirements, architecture, and code, enabling a faster, simpler, and more scalable innovation cycle for Optiver globally.

Responsibilities

Build and lead a high performance data engineering team, including managing performance, career development and delivery.
Own and deliver the vision, strategy and roadmap for Optiver’s data platform.
Architect platform components (orchestration, storage/table formats, metadata/governance, streaming) that scale across APAC and integrate globally.
Partner with stakeholders (research, trading, developers, SRE, security) to prioritise and achieve cross-team changes.
Standardise ingestion and access workflows, including schema management, lineage, permissions and audit.
Collaborate with our Europe & US offices to converge patterns and shared services.
Contribute hands-on to key designs and production code.
Uphold high engineering standards and best practices.

Requirements

7+ years experience as a Software Engineer delivering production platforms.
2+ years of experience leading software engineering teams.
Strong experience with distributed systems & reliability fundamentals, including partitioning, replication, consistency/availability tradeoffs.
Solid API and system design skills.
Data platform fundamentals, including batch/stream processing, table formats, object storage, SQL.
Understanding of security and governance, such as encryption, authentication, and access control.
Practical experience with streaming and batch data (e.g., Kafka + Schema Registry).
Experience making architectural decisions on IT solutions, system design & implementation.
Excellent stakeholder communication and roadmap ownership.

Skills

Python
C++
Java
Rust
API design
System design
Distributed systems
Reliability fundamentals
Batch processing
Stream processing
Table formats
Object storage
SQL
Security
Governance
Encryption
Authentication
Access control
Kafka
Schema Registry

Location

Sydney

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

7+ years software engineering
2+ years team leadership

Benefits

Performance-based bonus structure
Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities
Daily breakfast, lunch and an in-house barista
Gym membership plus weekly in-house chair massages
Regular social events, including a company trip every two years
Guided relocation, a competitive relocation package and visa sponsorship

About the Company

Optiver is a global market maker founded in Amsterdam, with offices around the world.
Established in 1986, we are a leading liquidity provider with close to 2,000 employees globally.
We are committed to improving the market through competitive pricing, execution, and risk management.
We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, trading a wide range of products.
Optiver’s Sydney office is one of the primary players within Asian markets, trading a range of products.
Established in 1996, the Sydney office is an active participant on the Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Japan exchanges, and acts as Optiver’s APAC head office.

Equal Opportunity

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.
We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process.