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About the Role
Optiver is building a systematic credit trading business and seeks a Quantitative Engineer to lead technical projects, shape trading infrastructure, and leverage technology for business success. The credit engineering team collaborates with researchers and traders to design systems for trading bonds, fixed income ETFs, and credit derivative products.
Responsibilities
- Establish the vision and technical direction for major credit trading initiatives.
- Design, develop, support, and maintain credit trading infrastructure, including RFQ trading platforms, create/redeem platforms, portfolio trading systems, OMS, and EMS.
- Contribute to pricing, research, and trading models for market-making and proprietary trading strategies.
- Collaborate with traders and researchers to solve trading problems and build the business.
- Participate in building a new business from inception.
Requirements
- Strong engineering instincts and a deep understanding of computer science fundamentals.
- Programming experience in C++ or C, with other object-oriented languages considered.
- Experience optimizing high-throughput systems for real-time processing of pricing and trade data.
- Familiarity with market microstructure and trading domain for US corporate credit markets, fixed income ETFs, and/or credit derivatives (CDS, CDX indices).
- Experience with connectivity to electronic trading venues and FIX protocol for credit markets.
- Readiness to set technical direction, promote strong engineering principles, and continuously refine systems in a fast-moving environment.
- Ability to identify opportunities to enhance performance, efficiency, and maintainability.
- Excellent communication skills for effective collaboration in a fast-paced environment.
Skills
- C++
- C
- Object-oriented programming
- High-throughput systems optimization
- Real-time data processing
- Market microstructure
- US corporate credit markets
- Fixed income ETFs
- Credit derivatives (CDS, CDX indices)
- Electronic trading venue connectivity
- FIX protocol
- System performance optimization
- System efficiency optimization
- System maintainability
- Communication
Location
- US
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Mid-level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $200,000—$200,000 USD
Benefits
- Highly competitive compensation package
- Global profit-sharing pool
- Performance-based bonus structure
- Ownership over initiatives
- 401(k) match up to 50%
- Fully paid health insurance
- 25 paid vacation days
- Market holidays
- Extensive office perks (breakfast, lunch, snacks, social events, clubs, sporting leagues)
About the Company
- Optiver's mission is to improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency, and stabilizing the market.
- Optiver prioritizes safeguarding the health and efficiency of markets for all participants.
- Optiver is one of the largest market-making institutions, respected on over 100 exchanges globally.
- Optiver engineers work closely with traders to identify and solve business problems using a disciplined and scientific approach.
- Optiver engineers create simple, well-architected solutions that meet dynamic trader needs.
- Optiver engineers are passionate about solving important business problems and take pride in solution quality.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.