C++ Software Engineer

About Optiver

Optiver is a global proprietary trading firm and market maker established in 1986 in Amsterdam. With nearly 2,000 team members worldwide across Europe, the Americas, and Asia Pacific, we supply liquidity to financial markets by trading a wide variety of listed derivatives, cash products, and commodities using our own capital and risk.

Our Singapore office serves as a vital APAC hub, hosting our APAC options trading technology and managing an expanding portfolio of commodities traded across markets such as India, China, Australia, and globally, spanning listed and over-the-counter products.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate intimately with commodities traders and quantitative researchers to translate trading goals related to pricing, quoting, execution, and systematic research into resilient software solutions.
• Develop and maintain research and backtesting frameworks that underpin systematic trading strategies, converting trader and quantitative inputs into parameter-driven, production-ready systems, ensuring a seamless transition from research to live trading.
• Design and implement low-latency, performance-critical trading modules, applying robust engineering principles.
• Contribute to the design and ongoing refinement of a dependable, testable, and low-latency commodities trading infrastructure.
• Operate in a dynamic environment by continuously testing, deploying, and iterating on code while closely cooperating with the trading desk on both software engineering and research processes.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of three years experience as a software engineer developing distributed, low-latency, or data-heavy and research-intensive systems.
• Proficient in modern C++ with a solid understanding of the language's performance nuances.
• Firm grasp of computer science fundamentals including operating systems, data structures, algorithms, and concurrent programming.
• Experience with scripting languages like Python to support tooling, research workflows, and automation tasks.
• Ability to use AI tools effectively to enhance productivity without jeopardizing code quality or speed.
• A strong passion for tackling complex technical problems and engaging closely with business objectives.

Desirable Skills

• Previous exposure to electronic trading environments or foundational knowledge of derivatives trading.
• Familiarity with data technologies such as Spark and Databricks for analytics and research tasks.
• Experience working with quantitative research platforms, data pipelines, or systematic trading strategy development.

Benefits and Culture

• A bonus program linked to overall global profitability, encouraging collaboration across teams and locations.
• A supportive, intellectually stimulating atmosphere comprising talented and inquisitive colleagues.
• Significant investment in personal growth through training, mentoring, and internal mobility opportunities alongside leading engineers and traders.
• Complimentary daily breakfast and lunch, gym memberships, and routine on-site chair massages.
• Frequent social gatherings and a company-wide weekend retreat every two years.

Additional Information

At Optiver, engineers play a central role in our operations, with their work directly influencing the firm's market-making and risk management capabilities. We emphasize excellence, curiosity, and precision in a high-stakes environment. We invite applications primarily from Singapore citizens or permanent residents.