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About the Role
As a Graduate Software Engineer, you will work on mission-critical systems in live financial markets, collaborating with traders, researchers, and engineers to build real-time solutions. Optiver leverages cutting-edge AI technology in financial markets, presenting daily technical challenges.
Responsibilities
- Build simple, well-architected solutions alongside traders, researchers, risk analysts and engineers.
- Use frontier agentic tooling, and build your own agents, skills and workflows, to solve problems across the trading stack.
- Improve performance, reliability and maintainability as markets and system requirements evolve.
- Contribute tools and capabilities that other engineers and teams can reuse.
Requirements
- Graduating between August 2024 and August 2027, with a maximum of 3 years of work experience.
- Passionate about clean code, simple, well-architected systems, and continuous improvement.
- Proficient in industry-standard coding languages such as C++, Python, or Java, with a strong understanding of underlying computer architecture and system operations.
- A solid grasp of algorithms, memory and concurrency models, CPU-architecture, operating systems and relational databases.
- Have an entrepreneurial attitude and an interest in the financial industry.
- An analytical mindset and strong problem-solving skills.
- Able to work closely with other engineers, traders, researchers and business operations.
- Provide a CV in English.
- Able to complete online assessments within 7 days of application.
- Not have completed an online assessment or interviewed for a technology graduate or internship role at any Optiver location in the past 8 months.
Skills
- C++
- Python
- Java
- Computer Architecture
- System Operations
- Algorithms
- Memory Models
- Concurrency Models
- CPU Architecture
- Operating Systems
- Relational Databases
Experience Level
- Graduate
- Maximum of 3 years of work experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent
- PhD degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent
Benefits
- Performance-based bonus structure
- Opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 50 different countries
- 25 paid vacation days in your first year, increasing to 30 from your second year onwards
- Training opportunities
- Discounts on health benefits
- Fully paid first-class commuting expenses
- Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and dinner
- World-class barista coffee
- Sport and leisure activities
- Bi-weekly massages
- Friday afternoon drinks
- Training and continuous learning opportunities
- International transfer opportunities for global career growth
- Competitive relocation packages
- Visa sponsorship where necessary for expats
About the Company
- Optiver is building with cutting edge AI technology in the most competitive, data rich landscapes in the world: financial markets.
- Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.
Equal Opportunity
- We encourage applications from candidates from any and all backgrounds, and we welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process to ensure that you can best demonstrate your abilities.