152 trading jobs found in Amsterdam

Trading Operations Engineer The Trading Operations Production Support Engineering team is responsible for maintaining and scaling Optiver’s low-latency trading systems. The team ensures a safe, stable, and efficient production environment while supporting profitability and sustainable growth across various regions. Collaborating closely with traders, development, and operational teams, the engineer will deploy, monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize our trading infrastructure to enhance reliability, performance, and automation. WHAT YOU’LL DO Provide technical expertise and support to high-frequency trading floors, troubleshooting complex issues and resolving incidents in a fast-paced, dynamic setting. Deploy, maintain, and monitor proprietary trading applications, ensuring stability and performance in the trading environment. Review and analyze incidents to identify recurring themes, driving improvements to enhance automation and operational efficiency. Coordinate...

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,...

Do you want to work in a dynamic and collaborative environment where your ideas make a difference? Join Flow Traders as a Graduate Trading Operations Engineer at our headquarters in Amsterdam! Flow Traders is looking for a Graduate Trading Operations Engineer to join our growing Trading Operations 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. If you aim high, the sky is the limit. As part of our Trading Operations team, you will work within our technology landscape to safeguard the performance and stability of our proprietary trading systems and the related hardware. In this role, you will act as an SRE, Operations Engineer, and Developer — taking ownership of technical issues and contributing directly to the company’s performance. You will collaborate closely...

Optiver leverages technology to solve a variety of complex problems: optimising for scarce bandwidth, responding to market events with nanosecond speed, automatically pricing complex sets of financial instruments with extremely low error tolerance, and analysing huge volumes of data. Our systems are built to add to the stability of the market, not detract from it; therefore they must operate at peak efficiency in the most extreme market conditions. To achieve this, our user interfaces must present coherent, responsive, real-time visualisations of market activity and system performance while providing intuitive control of a highly complex system.   Our Core Software Engineers focus on the infrastructural and strategic components of our software landscape, ensuring the core elements provide a stable, performant, and trusted foundation upon which our systems are built. WHAT YOU'LL DO: Our systems play an essential role in everything we do in the trading domain. That is why...

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...

Want to accelerate your path from student to full-time trader? Career Kickstarter: Trading is an immersive five-day program at Optiver’s Amsterdam office, offering final-year students at European Universities a direct pathway to a career in trading. Over the course of one week, you’ ll experience a real-world trading environment, moving from options theory to developing highly relevant practical industry skills. Through a blend of interactive lectures, trading games, and expert mentorship, you’ ll learn how to think—and act—like a trader. If you prove to be a good match for our Graduate Trader role, you may receive a full-time job offer once the program is complete. Apply below and take the first step towards accelerating your career in trading.   When : 2 - 6 March or 9 - 13 March 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...

As our Quantitative Trading Intern , you’ll experience the heart of Optiver’s business while getting first-hand exposure to Amsterdam’s trading floor – one of the most exciting and dynamic in Europe. Under the guidance and support of industry experts, you’ll engage in simulated trading sessions that replicate real market conditions and work on projects that directly impact trading. By the end of the ten week internship, you’ll be equipped with the skills and knowledge required to succeed as a Quantitative Trader at a top global trading firm. What you’ll do Requiring quick thinking, a critical mindset and bold action, our ten week internship is as close as you can get to experiencing what it’s like to be a trader. Led by our in-house education team which consists of ex-traders and ex-researchers, with over 40 years combined experience and solely focused on providing an exceptional internship experience. The comprehensive training program offers you the opportunity to:...

Flow Traders is looking for entrepreneurial, competitive and analytical talent to join our Trading department as an Intern. What better way to find out if a career in (Quantitative) Trading is something for you, than by experiencing it yourself as a Trading Intern?   You will get a 360-degree view of our role in the financial markets, how our Traders seize arbitrage opportunities, and how they work together as a team to optimize and improve their desk. The internship starts 1st of July 2026 and will last for 8 weeks. Housing will be provided! This Trading internship is about immersing yourself in financial markets and experience trading from up close. You do not need to have a financial background; we will teach you all you need to know. Experience with a scientific programming language or excel is an advantage though. Working closely with Traders and Quantitative Researchers, you will add value by working on real trading projects. You will solve problems, create new tools...

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...

Jump Trading 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 incentivising 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 organisations and universities to solve problems. About the Role:  At Jump, our people contribute to trading teams in the following roles, or a blend of all three: quant trader, quant researcher, and quant developer. Quant Traders will get training in all of these areas, with...

Optiver is looking for a Senior Network Engineer with a passion for solving problems and reducing complexity. You will join a team responsible for owning the networks that our industry-leading proprietary trading systems rely on. From day one, your contributions to the design, optimization and maintenance of our globally distributed networks will allow our traders and engineers to continue operating at the highest level of performance, making a direct impact to our business. Speed, reliability and scalability is at the center of everything that we do. WHAT YOU'LL DO Working in Optiver’s Network Engineering team will see you contributing to challenges scaling across low-latency, network automation, data center and WAN technologies through to colocation design and enterprise security to support our competitive market-making business. We're not interested in siloes, our engineers touch everything. Specifically you will do the following: Provide technical expertise to...

Optiver is looking for a Senior Network Engineer with a passion for solving problems and reducing complexity. You will join a team responsible for owning the networks that our industry-leading proprietary trading systems rely on. From day one, your contributions to the design, optimization and maintenance of our globally distributed networks will allow our traders and engineers to continue operating at the highest level of performance, making a direct impact to our business. Speed, reliability and scalability is at the center of everything that we do. WHAT YOU'LL DO Working in Optiver’s Network Engineering team will see you contributing to challenges scaling across low-latency, network automation, data center and WAN technologies through to colocation design and enterprise security to support our competitive market-making business. We're not interested in siloes, our engineers touch everything. Specifically you will do the following: Provide technical expertise to...

As a Senior Software Engineer you can join different teams to help us create a robust and reliable foundation for Optiver's infrastructure platform. Within either our Linux or Platform team, you will work closely to other experts depending on each project. We strive for excellence in everything we do because we believe that thoughtfully planned and well-orchestrated infrastructure is just as important as the algorithms running on our trading software. Without best-in-class infrastructure, there would be no foundation upon which to build our global market making core business. For that reason, we are looking for a Software Engineer who is committed to continuous improvement and thrives bringing new ideas to the table. WHAT YOU'LL DO: There are different teams in the Infrastructure Department working to create a robust and reliable foundation for Optiver's infrastructure platform. As a Senior Software Engineer  you can join our Linux or Infra-Platform teams. In both cases...

Optiver is a leading trading firm driven by technology with over one thousand employees globally. We pioneer our own trading strategies and systems using sophisticated technology, running a global network with thousands of high-performance, low-latency applications that solve problems in nanoseconds. We take full control of each small detail of our infrastructure by building and managing each aspect of our compute systems. We manage more than 2500 servers in more than 18 locations around the world. All of them are connected by a private wide area network back to our Amsterdam datacenter. We know that Infrastructure as Code is the best way to enable us to scale and keep standards as fresh as possible. We want to solve the challenges of infrastructure operations with software so we are looking for Software Engineers, but we are also looking for people with a good understanding of networking or the Linux Kernel internals. Our teams are an intersection of these profiles.  WHAT...

Optiver is a leading trading firm driven by technology with over one thousand employees globally. We pioneer our own trading strategies and systems using sophisticated technology, running a global network with thousands of high-performance, low-latency applications that solve problems in nanoseconds. We take full control of each small detail of our infrastructure by building and managing each aspect of our compute systems. We manage more than 2500 servers in more than 18 locations around the world. All of them are connected by a private wide area network back to our Amsterdam datacenter. We know that Infrastructure as Code is the best way to enable us to scale and keep standards as fresh as possible. We want to solve the challenges of infrastructure operations with software so we are looking for Software Engineers, but we are also looking for people with a good understanding of networking or the Linux Kernel internals. Our teams are an intersection of these profiles.  WHAT...

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. Tech Ops is a global organization of Engineers who architect, build and maintain our world-class infrastructure. From color design/implementation, to optimizing our exchange connectivity, to building world class low latent Wide...

Jump Trading 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 incentivising 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 organisations and universities to solve problems. About the Role: We build predictive models from big data and develop algorithms to automatically execute trades in dozens of financial exchanges around the world. At Jump you will have the opportunity to contribute in a...

Jump Trading 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 incentivising 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 organisations and universities to solve problems. About the Role:  The quant research & trading internship is an intensive 10-week program focused on enhancing your quantitative and programming skills, as well as letting you experience what it’s like to be a full-time...

WHAT WE DO: We deploy Market Making strategies on listed Options and Futures on multiple exchanges globally and are consistently ranked within the top three liquidity providers on the exchanges and markets we are mature in. We utilize our in-house ultra-low latency and high performant trading platforms to provide best in class pricing and liquidity to markets. Our philosophy is to bring together trading acumen, cutting edge technology and a scientific method to achieve sustainable success in the marketplace. We empower our team members and maximise their ability to succeed by offering an environment that is open, collaborative and supportive.  THE ROLE: We are looking for an ambitious and proactive European Single Stock Options Market Maker with a proven profit / risk management history to be a part of our equity options market making desk. The eligible candidate has extensive experience trading single stocks options on multiple European exchanges as well as the ability and...

Optiver's Production Engineering teams manage our live trading environment, which is active across 50+ global exchanges and hundreds of thousands of interconnected financial products. Our world-class infrastructure is a combination of vastly distributed systems, high-performance computing and low-latency trading algorithms, as well as high-throughput dataflows and data analysis. To keep pace with the ever-changing markets, Optiver must always react with speed, and therefore takes an in-house approach to building, analysing, managing and improving our custom infrastructure. Taking this autonomy a step further, Optiver's huge volumes of data are stored at our own data centre rather than in the cloud. Our technological independence enables us to evolve our systems on a daily basis, operating with tight feedback loops and quick development cycles. The challenge is balancing innovation with reliability and performance in such a complex, time-pressured environment – and that's exactly...

We are seeking a highly motivated Macro Analyst to join our ETF team. This role requires someone who can quickly consume and interpret breaking news across global equity markets and macroeconomic developments, providing precise and actionable insights. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in covering US and/or Emerging Market equities, alongside broader macro themes such as monetary policy changes, political events, and key economic indicators. You will cover a wide spectrum of sectors and countries - from US tech earnings to Chinese macro releases to Brazilian political developments - ensuring variety and exposure to global markets. Partnering closely with experienced traders, your insights will directly inform trading decisions and have an immediate effect on market positioning. With access to best-in-class market data tools and technology, you’ll operate in an environment built for speed, precision, and clarity, while also contributing to the development of...

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’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...