Quantitative Developer - Pricing Data at Optiver

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Updated 2026-11-01, from our data and official sources.

About the role

Responsibilities:
- Design, build and operate live pricing systems used by traders and researchers.
- Implement and maintain replay frameworks that reproduce production pricing calculations across historical market data.
- Integrate and normalize external datasets to expand the pricing ecosystem and research capabilities.
- Work across C++ and Python codebases to deliver performant systems and automation/ETL tooling.
- Embed monitoring, validation and data-quality checks into pipelines; collaborate with consumers to iterate on requirements.

Requirements:
- Strong computer science fundamentals and pragmatic engineering instincts.
- Proficiency in C++ or Python and comfort working across both languages for systems and orchestration code.
- Experience or familiarity with distributed data systems, throughput/schema trade-offs and historical replay design.
- Knowledge of data platforms (e.g. Delta Lake), cloud infrastructure or large-scale data engineering is a plus.
- Operational mindset with emphasis on monitoring, validation, and data quality; collaborative attitude with interest in quantitative finance.

Responsibilities

Design and operate live pricing systems and replay frameworks; integrate new external datasets; collaborate with traders, researchers, and platform teams to deliver production pricing data.

Requirements

Strong computer science fundamentals; proficient in C++ or Python; experience with distributed data systems and data platforms; familiarity with cloud infrastructure, ETL, monitoring and data quality checks; collaborative mindset with interest in quantitative finance.

Key skills

• C++ — in 121 other listings on The Stack
• Python — in 1142 other listings on The Stack
• ETL — in 38 other listings on The Stack
• Delta Lake — in 20 other listings on The Stack
• Cloud infrastructure — in 111 other listings on The Stack
• Distributed data systems — not in any other listing on The Stack
• Data platforms — in 5 other listings on The Stack
• Monitoring — in 99 other listings on The Stack
• Validation
• Data quality checks
• Historical data replay
• Pricing data systems

On The Stack (as of 2026-11-01)

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Where is this role located?

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What skills does this role ask for?

The listing names: C++, Python, ETL, Delta Lake, Cloud infrastructure, Distributed data systems, Data platforms, Monitoring, Validation, Data quality checks, Historical data replay, Pricing data systems.