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Curious how your analytical mindset could shape the future of global markets? Step into the world of quantitative trading through Optiver’s FutureFocus Quants (Trading & Research) Program . This immersive, five-day program offers a front-row seat to the strategies, data, and decision-making that drive one of the most advanced trading firms in the world — and a fast-track opportunity toward a Quantitative Trader or Quantitative Researcher Internship (Summer 2027) .     FutureFocus is a selective educational experience for students graduating between Winter 2027 and Spring 2029 , designed to give you a deep dive into the science behind modern markets. Across five dynamic days, you’ll get hands-on experience with real-world trading concepts and participate in technical lectures and interactive exercises that mirror the challenges faced by our traders and researchers.     What you’ll do:   Requiring quick thinking, a critical mindset...

Optiver is looking for a Software Engineer to join our Novel Trading Opportunities team, who are responsible for conceptualising and bringing to life the solutions needed to achieve our ambitious business goals. Our engineers apply their thorough understanding of the low level technical challenges that we face as a market maker, to continue elevating and expanding our trading business in a fast, principled and risk-conscious manner. We're looking for an entrepreneurial mindset and the ability to strategically identify the tools which are best placed and where time is best spent, to achieve the results needed for our business to continue performing at the highest possible level.  What you’ll do: You'll work closely with the trading team, designing and building the software required to help us trade new products, in new markets, in new and innovative ways; This team is focused on how we can achieve our business objectives while weighing up time-to-market, technical...

As a Senior Technical Program Manager – Trading & Core Software, you’ll drive programs that expand Optiver’s trading footprint and strengthen the core systems that power our global platform. This role sits at the intersection of engineering, trading, and strategy, leading initiatives that bring new markets, asset classes, and products online - while scaling the foundational software that manages instruments, trades, positions, and risk. You’ll work closely with high-performing engineering and trading teams to turn strategy into delivery, ensuring Optiver’s trading systems evolve with speed, reliability, and precision. What you’ll do In Optiver’s fast-paced environment, you will work alongside engineers and leaders to deliver multiple projects that support the firm’s strategic growth and take Optiver to the next level. As a Senior Technical Program Manager, your key responsibilities include: Lead multi-disciplinary programs that enable Optiver’s trading expansion...

As a Trading Risk Analyst at Optiver, you’ll be responsible for monitoring our ever-changing trading activity across all desks and products. We’re looking for analytical, quantitative and curious individuals who enjoy working with numbers and are interested in following financial markets. This position offers variety in both daily work and longer-term projects, focusing on internal market and credit risk metrics, regulatory capital and clearing requirements. You will be given meaningful responsibilities early on, such as deciding on the size of our positions, and expected to consistently contribute to improvements in our risk frameworks. Working on the Amsterdam trading floor, you will be at the forefront of the market, liaising with traders on new business initiatives and helping make decisions that will have direct impact on Optiver’s P&L. What you’ll do: You will start with a 3-month comprehensive training program focusing on the fundamentals of trading: theory,...

We are seeking a Quantitative Strategist to join our Credit Trading team and advance ETF and portfolio-based systematic strategies. You will contribute across the full lifecycle of trading, from research and design through implementation and deployment to monitoring and improvement, while collaborating with traders, developers, and researchers to enhance liquidity, optimize execution, and manage risk across ETFs and related products. What you’ll do As a quantitative strategist, your key responsibilities include: •    Strategy Development: Design, implement, and evolve systematic strategies for ETF arbitrage, portfolio trading, and cross-asset relative value opportunities. •    Monitoring: Monitor outsized market flows, regime shifts, and structural changes in real time, adjusting pricing, risk tolerance, and strategy parameters accordingly •    Backtesting & Simulation: Build robust backtesting and scenario analysis frameworks that incorporate market impact, execution...

Our Senior Software Engineers lead large technical projects, help set the direction for our trading infrastructure, and serve as role models within the organization. Our software engineering teams leverage technology to solve a variety of difficult problems. Our trading strategies must respond to market events in microseconds or less, and we automatically price large, diverse sets of financial instruments with extremely low error tolerance. We continually refine, store, and analyze terabytes of data produced by market activity and our trading systems. Our user interfaces must present coherent, responsive real-time visualizations of market activity and system performance while providing intuitive control of a highly complex system. Our core systems must provide a stable, performant, and trusted foundation on which our systems are built. Technology at Optiver: At Optiver we pride ourselves on being real engineers, not just coders. Our engineers work closely with traders to...

We're looking for an experienced Delta-1 Trader to join our growing Onshore Taiwan business and take ownership of our Taiwan futures, ETFs and calendar-roll book. You'll devise and execute trading strategies, manage risk in real time, and collaborate closely with researchers, developers and risk managers to push our edge in one of the region's most dynamic markets. Core responsibility details include: Market-making & Position Management of the TAIFEX index futures, rolls, TWSE-listed ETFs; maintain tight prices and optimizing risk/reward Strategy Development Design, back-test and implement systematic and discretionary delta-one strategies (e.g., index arb, basis, dividend, curve and roll optimisation) Risk Ownership; monitor greeks, stress scenarios and liquidity; adjust positions within agreed limits and escalate when necessary Cross-Team Collaboration Work with quantitative researchers on model enhancements, and with engineers to refine low-latency trading systems...

At Optiver, we seek to continuously improve our approach to pricing, execution and risk management. We believe that the rigour with which we approach these problems is a source of competitive edge. We have an appetite to diversify and improve and are always looking for great new talent to bring fresh ideas and perspectives to our trading team. We are uniquely placed in the market with a combination of access to great liquidity through our market-making desks and a progressive risk appetite to leverage upon that. We have an opportunity for an experienced Senior Positional Trader to join the team and improve us further. You will trade options across Asian markets as part of a collaborative team with access to best in class systems and tools. WHO YOU ARE The ideal candidate will have strong options and product knowledge, preferably in equities. You will be a natural problem solver with exceptional analytical and quantitative skills. You’re a strong performer...