Engineering Lead - Data

About the role

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. 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 APAC head office.

Responsibilities

• Other responsibilities include:
• Build and lead a high performance data engineering team, including managing performance, career development and delivery.
• Own and deliver the vision, strategy and roadmap for Optiver's data platform.
• Architect platform components (orchestration, storage/table formats, metadata/governance, streaming) that scale across APAC and integrate globally.
• Partner with stakeholders (research, trading, developers, SRE, security) to prioritise and achieve cross-team changes.
• Standardise ingestion and access workflows, including schema management, lineage, permissions and audit.
• Collaborate with our Europe & US offices to converge patterns and shared services.
• Contribute hands-on to key designs and production code. Uphold high engineering standards and best practices.

Requirements

• Optiver needs our next Engineering Lead to have:
• 7+ years experience as a Software Engineer delivering production platforms and 2+ years of experience leading software engineering teams.
• Strong experience with distributed systems & reliability fundamentals, including partitioning, replication, consistency/availability tradeoffs.
• Expertise with one or more of Python/C++/Java/Rust. Solid API and system design skills.
• Data platform fundamentals, including batch/stream processing, table formats, object storage, SQL.
• Understanding of security and governance, such as encryption, authentication, and access control.
• Practical experience with streaming and batch data (e.g., Kafka + Schema Registry).
• Experience making architectural decisions on IT solutions, system design & implementation.
• Excellent stakeholder communication and roadmap ownership.
• What you'll get
• In return for your expertise, you will have access to a range of Optiver perks, including:
• A performance-based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool, fostering a truly collaborative environment.
• The chance to work alongside diverse and intelligent peers in a rewarding environment.
• Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities.
• Daily breakfast, lunch and an in-house barista.
• Gym membership plus weekly in-house chair massages.
• Regular social events, including a company trip every two years.
• Guided relocation, a competitive relocation package and visa sponsorship where necessary
• Optiver is comm

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