Software Engineer - Research Infrastructure at Optiver
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At a glance
- Company
- Optiver
- Location
- Netherlands
- Work arrangement
- On-site
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Experience
- 5–10 years
- Working hours
- 40 hours
- Visa sponsorship
- Offered, according to the listing
- Posted
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Updated 2026-11-05, from our data and official sources.
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About the role
Responsibilities:
- Design, extend and maintain the quantitative research and simulation framework for systematic cash equities.
- Build distributed backtesting and model-training systems that scale across cloud and on-premise compute.
- Curate reliable, reproducible research datasets from live and historical market feeds.
- Partner closely with researchers and traders to translate research needs into production-ready tools.
- Improve researcher tooling, workflows and CI/validation to speed up experimentation and deployment.
- Apply modern AI and data tools where they add clear value to research or software workflows.
Requirements:
- Strong Python skills and experience in large-scale research, data or analytical environments.
- Experience building simulation, backtesting or computational frameworks; background in systematic trading/HFT is highly advantageous.
- Proven ability designing and operating distributed or real-time systems.
- Familiarity with data pipeline tooling (e.g., Spark, Polars, Airflow) and cloud/on-prem compute orchestration.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals: testing, performance profiling, and reproducibility.
Responsibilities
Develop and extend the simulation framework used to research and run systematic cash equities strategies. Build distributed systems for backtesting and curate high-quality research datasets for large-scale experimentation.
Requirements
Requires strong Python development skills and experience building large-scale computational or distributed systems. Experience in systematic trading, HFT, or quantitative finance is highly advantageous.
Key skills
- Python — in 1200 other listings on The Stack
- C++ — in 133 other listings on The Stack
- Distributed Systems — in 342 other listings on The Stack
- Simulation Frameworks — not in any other listing on The Stack
- Backtesting — not in any other listing on The Stack
- Quantitative Finance — in 3 other listings on The Stack
- Data Pipelines — in 113 other listings on The Stack
- Spark — in 54 other listings on The Stack
- Polars
- Airflow
- Cloud Infrastructure
- Software Engineering Fundamentals
- Real-time Systems
- AI Tools
- Systematic Trading
- High Frequency Trading
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Frequently asked questions about Optiver
Is this Software Engineer - Research Infrastructure role still open?
It was posted on 2026-07-10. Listings more than 30 days old may no longer be active, so check Optiver 's site before applying.
Does Optiver offer visa sponsorship?
This listing is marked as offering visa sponsorship. Eligibility rules are set by the employer, so check the details on Optiver 's site.
Where is this role located?
The listing gives the location as Netherlands. It is marked on-site.
What skills does this role ask for?
The listing names: Python, C++, Distributed Systems, Simulation Frameworks, Backtesting, Quantitative Finance, Data Pipelines, Spark, Polars, Airflow, Cloud Infrastructure, Software Engineering Fundamentals, Real-time Systems, AI Tools, Systematic Trading, High Frequency Trading.