US Treasuries Trader

<p>As a US Treasuries Trader at Optiver, you will take a leading role in trading and risk-managing US Treasuries across multiple venues. You’ll drive macro trading strategies by taking positions and analyzing macroeconomic data, policy shifts, and cross-asset flows to uncover and capitalize on short- and medium-term market opportunities.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>What you’ll do</strong></p> <ul> <li>Trade and manage risk across US Treasuries and related instruments, leveraging Optiver’s proprietary pricing models and infrastructure.</li> <li>Quote and execute orders for institutional counterparties while ensuring tight, competitive pricing and efficient hedging.</li> <li>Collaborate closely with quantitative researchers, developers, and other traders to continuously refine pricing models, execution algorithms, and trading strategies.</li> <li>Monitor macroeconomic data releases, policy developments and cross-asset flows to identify and act on short and medium term trading opportunities.</li> <li>Build and maintain relationships with market participants to deepen Optiver’s presence in the US treasury ecosystem.</li> <li>Contribute to strategic development of new trading products and markets in the US Treasury space.</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Who you are</strong></p> <ul> <li>Bachelor’s degree or higher or equivalent in a quantitative discipline</li> <li>Experience in trading US treasuries, ideally in options, otherwise related derivatives.</li> <li>Proven ability to manage risk and interpret macro drivers in the rates markets.</li> <li>Ability to build relationships with institutional counterparties is desirable but not essential.</li> <li>Proficiency in Python is a plus, as is familiarity with electronic trading systems (e.g., MTS, Eurex, Bloomberg, Tradeweb).</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Who we are&nbsp;</strong></p> <p>At Optiver, our mission is to continuously improve the market. By providing liquidity and accurate pricing in various financial instruments, to multiple exchanges across the world, we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong><strong>What you’ll get</strong></p> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong>You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the toughest problems in the financial markets.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p&