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Algorithmic Trading — Netherlands

Optiver is a leading global electronic market maker on a mission to continuously improve financial markets by creating better access and fairer prices for all. Using their own capital, they provide liquidity across equities, derivatives, ETFs, bonds, and currencies - keeping markets stable and competitive, even in the most volatile conditions.

Optiver

Production Engineer

Experienced • 📍 Amsterdam

Optiver's Production Engineering teams manage our live trading environment, active across 50+ global exchanges and hundreds of thousands of interconnected financial products. Our infrastructure is a combination of vastly distributed systems, high-performance computing, low-latency trading algorithms, and high-throughput dataflows. We take an in-house approach to building, analysing, managing and improving our custom infrastructure – our data lives at our own data centre rather than in the cloud, which lets us evolve our systems daily with tight feedback loops and quick development cycles.

As a Production Engineer, you'll be responsible for deploying, maintaining, monitoring and improving the reliability, scalability and performance of our in-house built trading systems. Your scope covers market access, monitoring and compliance, strategy evaluation and management, performance tuning and trading automation. Sitting on our trading floor, you'll have constant face-to-face interaction with Traders, Researchers and fellow Engineers – this is an engineering role, not a support role, and you'll help set the standards for our production environment.

Responsibilities

  • Deploy, maintain and monitor our in-house built trading systems
  • Improve the reliability, scalability and performance of production systems, especially under extreme market conditions
  • Cover market access, monitoring, compliance, strategy evaluation and trading automation
  • Work face-to-face with Traders, Researchers and Engineers to resolve issues quickly
  • Set and uphold engineering standards for the production environment

Requirements

  • Experience managing day-to-day operations of software and hardware infrastructure
  • Strong affinity with Unix/Linux systems
  • Ability to automate tasks using Python
  • Strong design, debugging and problem-solving skills
  • Experience with relational databases (Optiver uses PostgreSQL, but other DB experience is welcome)
  • Understanding of networking fundamentals and protocols
  • No prior trading or financial experience is needed – Optiver's onboarding program will kick-start your career and get you up to speed on the business.

Benefits

  • A performance-based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry – profits are combined across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool
  • The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries
  • 25 paid vacation days and fully paid first-class commuting expenses
  • Training opportunities and discounts on health insurance
  • Extensive office perks: breakfast and lunch, world-class barista coffee, sports and leisure activities, Friday afternoon drinks, and weekly in-house chair massages
  • Competitive relocation packages and visa sponsorship where necessary for expats
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