About the role
<p></p> <div class="WDFG WGEG WFFG"> <div class="WGFG wd-dd11f6d6-0376-4459-b164-64877d381e41"><strong>WHO WE ARE</strong></div> </div> <div id="56$309310-input" class="WHFG" data-automation-id="decorationWrapper"> <div class="WAKJ WBKJ"> <div id="56$309310-input--uid136-input" class="WHG- WKG- WAJ- WBJ- WHE- WJG- WBAB WIG-" data-automation-id="richTextEditor" data-metadata-id="56$309310" data-uxi-widget-editable="false"> <div class="GWTCKEditor-Disabled"> <p>Optiver is a proprietary trading firm and leading global market maker. As one of the oldest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 50+ exchanges across the globe. Our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilising force no matter the market conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement, we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets for everyone who participates.&nbsp;</p> <p><br><strong>WHAT YOU’LL DO</strong></p> <p>As a Software Engineer, you will deliver large bodies of well-engineered code and owning projects that directly impact Optiver’s cutting-edge trading systems. You will collaborate with fellow Engineers, Traders and Researchers to develop a deep understanding of trading, exchanges and what the 'machine' is doing. You're not attached to tools and technologies, you focus on solving problems. Your challenge is to further innovate and maintain the foundation underlying our wider infrastructure. Some other responsibilities include:</p> <ul> <li>Contribute to the design, development and deployment of services that comprise our globally distributed trading platform</li> <li>Build partnerships across the business to ensure we're feeding the best ideas into our solutions</li> <li>Manage deployments to reduce risk, and provide production support where required</li> <li>Find the simplest, cleanest solutions and continually optimise them</li> <li>Build software that balances complex system performance in a reliable trading environment.<br>&nbsp;</li> </ul> <p><strong>WHO YOU ARE</strong></p> <p>Optiver needs our next Software Engineer to be someone with:</p> <ul> <li>Extensive experience working as a Senior Software Engineer on distributed systems, and mastery of one or more OOP languages (C++, Java, C# or Golang)</li> <li>A passion for solving complex problems with well engineered, fit for purpose, code</li> <li>A solid grasp of Computer Science fundamentals like operating systems, data structures and algorithms</li> <li>Pro