Job Overview
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.
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.
What you'll do 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.
We have opportunities across the following teams:
• Research & Simulation: Build the infrastructure and workflows that power systematic and semi-systematic trading, enabling large-scale experimentation, robust backtesting, and data-driven strategy development.
• Low Latency Execution Strategy: Develop sy