Pricing Data Engineer (C++/Python) Live & Historical Markets

Optiver; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance-based bonus

Relocation & visa sponsorship

25 paid vacation days

Health insurance discounts

Extensive office perks and meals

Training opportunities

Commuting expenses covered

Job summary

Optiver in Amsterdam seeks a Quantitative Developer to join the Pricing Data Group. You will help shape research and strategy by building and maintaining pricing data systems used by traders and researchers, both live and historically.

The role emphasizes ownership of production pipelines, collaboration with traders and platform teams, and engineering across C++/Python boundaries to deliver scalable pricing data products.

Qualifications

• Strong fundamentals in computer science and software engineering.
• Proficiency in C++ or Python, with ability to move between systems-level and ETL code.
• Experience designing distributed data systems with attention to throughput and data quality.

Responsibilities

• Own production pipelines that compute and serve core pricing data.
• Build and optimize live pricing systems that run during trading hours.
• Develop replay frameworks for years of historical market data.
• Integrate external data sets to expand research capabilities.

Skills

Strong engineering

C++/Python

Distributed data

ETL/Orchestration

Collaborative

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

Delta Lake

Cloud infrastructure

ETL frameworks

Job description

Optiver in Amsterdam seeks a Quantitative Developer to join the Pricing Data Group. You will help shape research and strategy by building and maintaining pricing data systems used by traders and researchers, both live and historically.

The role emphasizes ownership of production pipelines, collaboration with traders and platform teams, and engineering across C++/Python boundaries to deliver scalable pricing data products.