Quantitative Developer

About the role

At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing 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. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.

Responsibilities

• Develop scalable, reliable data systems that support real-time analytics for trading and large-scale historical analysis
• Partner closely with traders and researchers to deliver actionable insights and meet dynamic data needs across ingestion, storage, and real-time processing
• Drive the development of our data lake and analytics frameworks, enabling immediate access to live and historical data
• Build real-time analytics capabilities to support rapid decision-making in trading operations
• Engineer for resilience and reliability, implementing automated recovery processes and safeguards for high-demand periods
• Projects You Might Work On:
• Enhancing research frameworks to enable quick deployment of trading applications and strategy optimizations
• Expanding real-time analytics for high-frequency trading and predictive market insights
• Integrating machine learning models within data pipelines to improve predictive accuracy

Requirements

• You're a highly skilled engineer passionate about building sophisticated systems that drive data-driven trading decisions:
• 5+ years of experience in high-performance data systems and infrastructure
• Proficiency in C++ or Python, with a commitment to clean, maintainable code
• Strong understanding of operational excellence in areas like networking, database performance, and system resilience
• Experience with real-time analytics platforms
• Familiarity with big data tools and frameworks, such as Pandas, Polars, PyArrow, Kafka, PostgreSQL, and DeltaTable
• Background in trading or financial markets is a plus, but not required
• WHAT YOU'LL GET:
• The chance to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries.
• Our performance based bonus structure is unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool fostering a truly collaborative environment to work in.
• Being highly international, we are accustomed to guiding expats through their relocation, offering competitive relocation packages and providing visa sponsorship where necessary.
• HOW TO APPLY:
• Apply directly via the form below. If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruitment team via our recruitment inquiry form .
• Please note:
• We do not require any assistance from third-parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role
• We cannot accept applications via email'
• DIVERSITY STATEMENT:
• Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion .

Benefits

Additional Information

Join our Trading Technology team in Amsterdam, where you'll build real-time data systems that directly support Optiver's trading strategies and market insights. As a\ Quant Developer, you'll focus on creating scalable, high-performance platforms for real-time analytics, enabling traders to make precise, data-driven decisions across various products. At Optiver, technology drives our approach to market-making-whether optimizing for low latency response times or processing massive data volumes with efficiency, even in extreme market conditions. This role offers the chance to tackle complex technical challenges in a dynamic environment, collaborating closely with traders and researchers to advance smarter, more effective trading practices that keep Optiver at the forefront of the industry.

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