Software engineer - Real-Time Pricing at Optiver

on-site · full-time · Visa sponsorship

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Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain the real-time pricing platform that prices millions of derivative contracts across 70+ exchanges.
- Optimize low-latency data pipelines and large-scale compute to meet strict performance and consistency requirements.
- Build systems for distribution of high-volume datasets across multiple physical locations with atomicity and consistency guarantees.
- Increase automation to speed development cycles and support multiple releases per day.
- Collaborate closely with traders, researchers, and other teams to translate business problems into robust production software and iterate rapidly.

Requirements:
- Experience designing and building large-scale distributed or real-time systems with strong software engineering fundamentals.
- Ability to write reliable, maintainable production code and operate autonomously within cross-functional teams.
- Exposure to low-latency optimization, data distribution, and high-throughput processing.
- C++ experience is a significant plus; interest or background in systematic trading, derivatives pricing, or quantitative finance is desirable but not mandatory.