Software Engineer - Trading Strategies

<p data-renderer-start-pos="41" data-local-id="c37ec26d9a19">Our engineers build the systems that power Optiver's trading business, solving complex technical problems at massive scale where performance, reliability and speed are critical.</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="220" data-local-id="51a065d63472">We're hiring senior engineers across five Trading Strategies teams in our Chicago office. You'll work directly with traders and researchers, owning systems and workflows end-to-end across the stack: from real-time trading infrastructure and execution through to tools, analytics and decision-support. The problems are fast-moving, the feedback loop is short and your impact is directly visible across system behavior, execution quality and trading performance.</p> <h2 id="What-you'll-do" data-local-id="cd4cc34f6733" data-renderer-start-pos="682">What you'll do</h2> <p data-renderer-start-pos="698" data-local-id="6401148e066f">Depending on the team and area of focus, engineers may work on everything from ultra-low-latency systems that execute trades in live markets to large-scale research and simulation platforms that process vast amounts of data.</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="924" data-local-id="649713e47d53">We have opportunities across the following teams:</p> <ul> <li> <p><strong>Research &amp; Simulation:</strong> Build the infrastructure and workflows that power systematic and semi-systematic trading, enabling large-scale experimentation, robust backtesting, and data-driven strategy development.</p> </li> <li> <p><strong>Low Latency Execution Strategy:</strong> Develop systems and run experiments that improve exchange execution by partnering with researchers to understand market microstructure and optimize execution behavior.</p> </li> <li> <p><strong>Equity Options:</strong> Work directly alongside traders to solve high-impact problems across trading systems, analytics, infrastructure, and tooling.</p> </li> <li> <p><strong>Core Trading Strategies:</strong> Build systematic and semi-systematic trading strategies that translate pricing and risk appetite into exchange execution. Develop algorithms, ultra-low-latency execution systems, and high-fidelity research infrastructure across trading features, infrastructure design, and simulation platforms.</p> </li> <li> <p><strong>Retail Execution:</strong> Build real-time systems that price, route, and execute millions of retail orders. Partner closely with traders and researchers to own end-to-end solutions spanning exchange connectivity, routing logic, pricing, risk checks, and monitoring.</p> </li> </ul> <h2 id="