23 quantitative trader jobs found

Tower Research Capital is a leading quantitative trading firm founded in 1998. Tower has built its business on a high-performance platform and independent trading teams. We have a 25+ year track record of innovation and a reputation  for discovering unique market opportunities. Tower is home to some of the world’s best systematic trading and engineering talent. We empower portfolio managers to build their teams and strategies independently while providing the economies of scale that come from a large, global organization.  Engineers thrive at Tower while developing electronic trading infrastructure at a world class level. Our engineers solve challenging problems in the realms of low-latency programming, FPGA technology, hardware acceleration and machine learning. Our ongoing investment in top engineering talent and technology ensures our platform remains unmatched in terms of functionality, scalability and performance. At Tower, every employee plays a role in our...

As an Institutional Trader at Optiver you will be instrumental in the decision making and execution of our large-order trading strategies through the management of our relationships with brokers and direct counterparties. We’re looking for a unique blend of communication skills and quantitative ability. The daily interactions you’ll have with our external partners will provide vital market insights; when these are combined with your analytical skills, intuition and close collaboration with our Screen Traders, you’ll be well placed to negotiate the best possible prices at speed. For many of the products we trade, this approach allows us to continuously operate at the forefront of the market. What you’ll do Identify and capitalize on market opportunities, both independently and within the trading team; Make split-second trading decisions that can instantly impact profitability; Constantly aim to identify new product/market opportunities to diversify our strategies and...

As a US Treasuries Trader at Optiver, you will take a leading role in trading and risk-managing US Treasuries across multiple venues. You’ll drive macro trading strategies by taking positions and analyzing macroeconomic data, policy shifts, and cross-asset flows to uncover and capitalize on short- and medium-term market opportunities. What you’ll do Trade and manage risk across US Treasuries and related instruments, leveraging Optiver’s proprietary pricing models and infrastructure. Quote and execute orders for institutional counterparties while ensuring tight, competitive pricing and efficient hedging. Collaborate closely with quantitative researchers, developers, and other traders to continuously refine pricing models, execution algorithms, and trading strategies. Monitor macroeconomic data releases, policy developments and cross-asset flows to identify and act on short and medium term trading opportunities. Build and maintain relationships with market...

As a German Bunds Volatility Trader at Optiver, you will take a leading role in trading and risk-managing interest rate volatility across the German government bond complex – Bund, Bobls and Schatz. This role blends the fast-paced decision-making of a screen trader with the relationship-driven insights of an institutional trader. You’ll operate at the intersection of liquidity provision, market structure expertise, and client interaction helping Optiver to maintain its position as a leading liquidity provider in European fixed income markets. What you’ll do Trade and actively manage volatility risk across German Bunds and related fixed-income derivatives, leveraging Optiver’s proprietary pricing models, execution infrastructure, and real-time risk systems. Quote, price, and execute options and volatility trades for institutional counterparties, ensuring competitive markets, tight spreads, and efficient hedging across Bunds, Bobls, and Schatz products. Collaborate with...

Optiver is seeking a skilled Operations Analyst to join our trading team in Amsterdam. This role is a pivotal position within our trading teams, driving the operation and optimization of both our semi-automated and fully automated market making activities and trading systems. With a razor-sharp eye for detail, the ideal candidate embodies operational excellence and thrives in a dynamic, entrepreneurial, and collaborative environment. WHO WE ARE: 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. WHAT YOU’LL DO Our Operations Analysts take ownership of critical elements of...

As a Trader Intern, you will complete a 9 week training programme in Options Market Making run by our traders, including trading simulation, project work and programming courses. Throughout the internship you will gain insight into the work of our market making desks whilst having the opportunity to get to know us at our regular social events. At the end of the internship, you will be considered for a place on our 2027 Amsterdam Graduate Trader Programme.  During the Internship, you will spend your first 3 weeks in our London office for a fast-paced, interactive introduction to Trading, before returning to Amsterdam for the remaining 6 weeks of the programme.  You must be in your penultimate year of university in order to be eligible for this position. We are looking for candidates from any quantitative background with a competitive nature and a strong understanding of probability and statistics to join our team for the summer. The programme will run from 22nd June -...

As a Trader Graduate, you will complete an intensive training programme run by our most talented traders, including theory training, education sessions, live-market trading, and programming courses. We will teach you the skills to trade with the latest available tools and we aim to give you responsibility for the profit and loss of your book as soon as you are ready. We are looking for final year applicants from any quantitative background with a competitive nature and a strong understanding of probability and statistics to join our Graduate Trader Programme in Amsterdam. The programme start date will be Monday 7th September 2026. Training Location  All Graduates will complete an initial 3-month training period in London. Upon completion of training, candidates will be relocate to our Amsterdam office to join Options Market Making trading desks. What we’re looking for Strong numeracy and a good understanding of probability and statistics Competitive...

Flow Traders is looking for an experienced Digital Assets Trader to join our growing Trading team in Amsterdam. The ideal candidate exhibits strong local reasoning and mathematical skills along with a passion for the financial markets. This is a unique opportunity to join a leading proprietary trading firm with an entrepreneurial and innovative culture at the heart of its business. We value quick-witted, creative minds and challenge them to make full use of their capacities. As a Digital Assets Trader at Flow Traders, you will be part of a highly innovate and successful global team that trades on various cryptocurrency exchanges with a focus on ensuring around the clock liquidity within these markets. In this role, you will be tasked with implementing successful strategies in corporation with the global team that will increase the overall profitability of our Digital Assets business, part of Flow Traders’ strategic growth plan.   What you will do  Generate and implement...

Stay Informed about Future Opportunities! Our 2025 Graduate Trader positions are now filled, but some great opportunities will be available again in 2026. If you are interested in staying updated about the future opportunities you can submit your application through this expression of interested. Onboarding As a Graduate Trader, you will begin your career at Flow Traders with an extensive 3-month training program at our Amsterdam office. During this program, you will learn everything you need to know about our core business, the financial products we trade and the intricacies surrounding our trading processes, including pricing strategies and our proprietary trading systems. It will also include participation in trading simulations and quantitative classes hosted by our Senior Traders and Quantitative Researchers that will further strengthen your understanding of a Trader’s role in the financial ecosystem. After collaborating with your fellow graduate traders on a team...

Jump Trading Group is committed to world class research. We empower exceptional talents in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to seek scientific boundaries, push through them, and apply cutting edge research to global financial markets. Our culture is unique. Constant innovation requires fearlessness, creativity, intellectual honesty, and a relentless competitive streak. We believe in winning together and unlocking unique individual talent by incenting collaboration and mutual respect. At Jump, research outcomes drive more than superior risk adjusted returns. We design, develop, and deploy technologies that change our world, fund start-ups across industries, and partner with leading global research organizations and universities to solve problems. Jump established a mainland Europe footprint with the launch of our Amsterdam office in 2018.  The office has steadily grown with exceptional talent and has rooted itself as the hub for managing its European trading activity....

Jump Trading Group is committed to world class research. We empower exceptional talents in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to seek scientific boundaries, push through them, and apply cutting edge research to global financial markets. Our culture is unique. Constant innovation requires fearlessness, creativity, intellectual honesty, and a relentless competitive streak. We believe in winning together and unlocking unique individual talent by incenting collaboration and mutual respect. At Jump, research outcomes drive more than superior risk adjusted returns. We design, develop, and deploy technologies that change our world, fund start-ups across industries, and partner with leading global research organizations and universities to solve problems. The quantitative trading teams at Jump Trading probe and examine the global markets, seeking to understand the complexities of various traded products and exchanges. They leverage their impeccable statistical analysis and data...

Flow Traders is looking for an experienced Back-End Blockchain Engineer to join our growing Digital Assets Technology team in Amsterdam. This is a unique opportunity to work at a leading proprietary trading firm with an entrepreneurial and innovative culture. We value sharp, creative minds and challenge our engineers to leverage their full potential in a high-performance environment. This will be a hybrid role based in Amsterdam.   What you will do Work closely with trading desks to develop scalable and low-latency solutions for DEX Trading  Contribute to the architecture and development of high-performance, real-time trading systems for DeFi markets Encourage the team to grow our Blockchain understanding bringing in protocol-specific knowledge and best practices Develop and maintain on-chain and off-chain components, including smart contracts, indexers, and market-making bots Implement robust APIs and integrate with DeFi protocols, liquidity pools, and...

Optiver is seeking a Senior C# UI Engineer to help shape the next generation of our global trading and research interfaces. This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on building performant, intuitive, and scalable user interfaces that interact seamlessly with our C++-based backend microservices. Our UIs are built using an in-house, high-performance C# framework that abstracts much of the complexity of our systems, enabling developers to rapidly build robust tools for traders and researchers. Your role will be to both leverage and extend this framework — working at the intersection of C#, C++, and real-time data to deliver world-class applications. You will collaborate closely with developers, traders, and quantitative researchers to understand their workflows, design effective user experiences, and ensure reliability and speed in a low-latency trading environment. WHAT YOU’LL DO Design and build high-performance UI applications using C# on top of Optiver’s...

Optiver is seeking a Senior C# UI Engineer to help shape the next generation of our global trading and research interfaces. This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on building performant, intuitive, and scalable user interfaces that interact seamlessly with our C++-based backend microservices. Our UIs are built using an in-house, high-performance C# framework that abstracts much of the complexity of our systems, enabling developers to rapidly build robust tools for traders and researchers. Your role will be to both leverage and extend this framework — working at the intersection of C#, C++, and real-time data to deliver world-class applications. You will collaborate closely with developers, traders, and quantitative researchers to understand their workflows, design effective user experiences, and ensure reliability and speed in a low-latency trading environment. WHAT YOU’LL DO Design and build high-performance UI applications using C# on top of Optiver’s...

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,...

Optiver’s Equity Options Trading team is looking for Equity Analysts to drive our fundamental research-driven trading. Ideal candidates are self-starters, have a competitive mentality, and are excited by the opportunity to bring their knowledge and skills to a growing team. Having a determined and proactive risk-taking mindset is essential to perform well in this role. As an Equity Analyst, you will play a critical role on our team and have the opportunity to make a material impact to the firm’s PnL . You will sit directly on the trading desk, where you will be able to influence trading decisions and positions daily. In addition, you will have the ability to put research-driven trading positions in your own book from day one. What you’ ll do: As an Equity Analyst at Optiver you will be responsible for leveraging current events and your research experience to impact the team’s trading decisions. You will work in close collaboration with Traders, Quantitative...

When : 23-27 March or 13-17 April, 2026 Please indicate your preferred program date in the application form below. Check both boxes if you’re available for both dates, but please note that you will only be able to attend one. Where : Optiver Amsterdam Headquarters Application deadline : 1st January 2026 | 23:59 CET Ready to turn your degree into an internship offer? FutureFocus: Quants  is an exclusive program designed to give students graduating in 2028 a unique, behind-the-scenes look at the world of quantitative trading and research. Over the course of five days, you’ll take part in technical lectures, skill-building workshops, and networking events that will help you sharpen your skills and take action early in your academic journey. Whether you’re drawn to the fast-paced decisions of trading or the data-driven insights of research, this program offers you the chance to explore which career path is right for you. And if you prove to be a good fit,  you could secure a...

Flow Traders is looking for experienced Traders to join our growing teams in various asset classes, including Equity, Fixed Income, Digital Assets, FX and Commodities at our Amsterdam office. The ideal candidate exhibits in depth knowledge in trading along with a passion for the financial markets. This is a unique opportunity to join a leading proprietary trading firm with an entrepreneurial and innovative culture at the heart of its business. We value quick-witted, creative minds and challenge them to make full use of their capacities.    What you will do Formulate quantitative and automated trading strategies Manage and optimize your intraday trading positions together with your team Focus on technical improvements on the desk while also automating various daily processes Manage trading positions and ensure essential information is captured accurately Identify new opportunities and products that align with Flow Traders growth strategy   What you need to...

Flow Traders is looking for a Core Data Engineer to own the end-to-end lifecycle of our most fundamental data products, including our Security Master; our reconciled ETF Compositions; high-resolution historical market data; and records of our trades, orders, quotes, and inquiries. High-quality data is the cornerstone of Flow Traders' strategic direction - beyond reducing complexity and BAU for stakeholders across the organization, quality data is a key requirement for our growth of quantitative trading styles. In this role you will craft and execute the blueprint for these products, leveraging our Data Platform to build and monitor automated pipelines which ensure that users across the organization have reliable data at their fingertips when they need it. Further, you will become an expert in these data sets, leveraging that knowledge to optimize our use of the data we have and explore new sources for additional value. Finally, you will constantly collaborate with teams across...

Flow Traders is looking for an experienced Backend Software Engineer to join our growing Digital Assets Technology team in Amsterdam. This is a unique opportunity to join a leading proprietary trading firm with an entrepreneurial and innovative culture at the heart of its business. We value quick-witted, creative minds and challenge them to make full use of their capacities.  Software Engineers at Flow Traders build and maintain applications that are core to our business. Our systems enable Flow Traders to remain competitive on exchanges worldwide. You'll work on a variety of systems — from low-latency components that receive market data and place orders, to robust pipelines that process large volumes of data reliably and efficiently. In this role, you’ll be part of a small, business-aligned team working closely with Traders and Quantitative Researchers. This tight feedback loop ensures immediate insight into the impact of your work and encourages ownership. We emphasize code...

Flow Traders is looking for an experienced Go Engineer to join our growing Digital Assets Technology team in Amsterdam. This is a unique opportunity to join a leading proprietary trading firm with an entrepreneurial and innovative culture at the heart of its business. We value quick-witted, creative minds and challenge them to make full use of their capacities.  Software Engineers at Flow Traders build and maintain applications that are core to our business. Our systems enable Flow Traders to remain competitive on exchanges worldwide. You'll work on a variety of systems — from low-latency components that receive market data and place orders, to robust pipelines that process large volumes of data reliably and efficiently. In this role, you’ll be part of a small, business-aligned team working closely with Traders and Quantitative Researchers. This tight feedback loop ensures immediate insight into the impact of your work and encourages ownership. We emphasize code quality, shared...

Flow Traders is looking for Senior C++ Software Engineers to join our growing team in Amsterdam. The ideal candidate is curious, methodical and a multitasker. This is a unique opportunity to join a leading proprietary trading firm with an entrepreneurial and innovative culture at the heart of its business. We value quick-witted, creative minds and challenge them to make full use of their capacities.  At Flow Traders you will develop low-latency systems for trading various asset classes across global venues. Working closely with product owners, traders, and quantitative analysts, you'll design and optimize trading strategies. You'll focus on platform support, latency reduction, fault tolerance, and memory optimization, ensuring high throughput. Your role includes deployment, post-deployment support, and collaboration with operations and trading teams to maintain infrastructure stability, performance, and availability, while also addressing production issues and enhancing...

Why we started W3BWAVE The impact of crypto on trading has been both profound and multifaceted and we expect it to reshape traditional financial markets with unprecedented speed. As this space evolves, we want to ensure that the next wave of talent looking to develop careers in trading or technology is properly equipped to understand this fast-changing world and its full potential, which is why Flow Traders and Deribit are partnering to launch the Netherlands first dedicated Crypto talent pool -  W3BWAVE . Currently, there are no studies or associations in the Netherlands focused on digital assets or crypto. Therefore, as two leading firms in the space, we want to bring this cutting-edge financial development to the student population. Are you interested in joining this unique Talent Pool? We are always searching for passionate individuals with an interest in crypto. If you are intrigued by or already involved in the digital asset space, we want to hear from you! Discover...