Software Engineer (C++) - Derivatives
OptiverAbout the role
<p data-renderer-start-pos="2777" data-local-id="01be62ce-be5e-49af-9c99-a6dd820aa757"></p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="3529" data-local-id="01be62ce-be5e-49af-9c99-a6dd820aa757"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">Who We Are</strong></p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="3541" data-local-id="c2550518-282c-4fef-b73d-2b7b58f2339f">Optiver is a global market maker founded in Amsterdam, with offices in London, Chicago, Austin, New York, Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei and Mumbai. Established in 1986, today we are a leading liquidity provider, with close to 2,000 employees in offices around the world, united in our commitment to improve the market through competitive pricing, execution and risk management. By providing liquidity on multiple exchanges across the world in various financial instruments we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets. We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, at our own risk, trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign currencies.</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="4288" data-local-id="3ddd150b-98f0-42cf-ac96-ac9c2e64d0e9">Optiver’s Sydney office is one of the primary players within Asian markets, trading a range of products. Established in 1996, we're an active participant on the Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Japan exchanges, and act as Optiver’s <span data-highlighted="true" data-vc="highlighted-text"><span class="_1mT5xdRAKS"><span class="_0nmozVaHVx _2V7sgO2M4S _3BoeIDwZ7G _30zrXRyxdf _0ReiIH7zJH" data-testid="definition-highlighter">APAC</span></span></span> head office. </p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="4547" data-local-id="9575165a-87a2-4e0e-85c5-b79276c51b35"> </p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="4549" data-local-id="4933c0eb-ae67-4cc0-91c8-a83f39714df8"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">What You’ll Do</strong></p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="4565" data-local-id="8cf35fd4-e2b5-421c-8a82-490d7a47c472">Optiver is looking for experienced software engineers who are interested in working on our options positional trading team. This role is tightly integrated with trading and quant research teams, offering new hires a fast path to understanding the business and having an immediate impact. You will be responsible for working with derivatives traders and researchers to understand exactly how we want to trade derivatives, partnering to refine datasets, tools, and trading strategies, then owning your software through implementation and deployment into worldwide markets. From Sydney, you’ll work with live trading systems trading Asian markets with unique market
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