Software Engineer - Research Infrastructure at Optiver

on-site · full-time · Visa sponsorship

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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.