Real-Time Pricing Systems Engineer - Low-Latency

Optiver; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance bonus

Global team

25 vacation days

Health insurance discounts

Office perks & massages

Relocation & visa sponsorship

Job summary

Optiver in Amsterdam is seeking a software engineer to join our real-time pricing systems team. You’ll work with traders, researchers and other developers on a production-grade, low-latency pricing platform that handles millions of derivative contracts across 70+ exchanges.

You will translate business problems into robust software, optimize data processing and large-scale compute, and help automate to shorten time to market.

Qualifications

• A software engineer with an entrepreneurial mindset and the ability to strategically identify the tools which are best placed and where time is best spent, to achieve the results needed for our business to continue performing at the highest possible level.
• Experience designing and building large-scale, distributed or real-time systems
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and an interest in writing reliable, maintainable production code
• Ability to operate autonomously as well as collaborate with Traders, Researchers, other technical teams and business operations counterparts to deliver on complex business initiatives
• Experience with C++ is a plus
• Interest in systematic trading, derivatives pricing, or quantitative finance more broadly is a strong plus - but not a hard requirement; we will teach you what you need to know

Responsibilities

• Work directly with trading, researchers and other development teams in tightly knit working groups being responsible for overall success of the projects. We are not afraid of crossing team boundaries, learn about each other’s domain and apply this expertise in practice.
• Apply your engineering background to translate business problems into robust, production grade software
• Work on our pricing platform - already a key competitive advantage - while helping push it even further by:
• optimizing our low-latency data processing
• optimizing our large scale compute
• distribution of large volume datasets across multiple physical locations while ensuring consistency and atomicity
• increasing automation to further reduce our time to market
• Have a direct impact on business with a tight feedback loop
• Join a strong and dynamic team

Skills

Distributed systems

C++

Real-time

Autonomous work

Job description

Optiver in Amsterdam is seeking a software engineer to join our real-time pricing systems team. You’ll work with traders, researchers and other developers on a production-grade, low-latency pricing platform that handles millions of derivative contracts across 70+ exchanges.

You will translate business problems into robust software, optimize data processing and large-scale compute, and help automate to shorten time to market.