or apply directly on Optiver 's site. We never take the application ourselves.
Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 80 days Optiver 's roles stay open a median of 81 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Optiver 's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Optiver
- high 166 stale, 3 reposted of 168 open
- Hiring momentum
- 222 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-23
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Optiver 's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Optiver .
About this role
As a Software Engineer at Optiver, you will focus on building and maintaining low-latency trading systems for US cash equities and ETFs. Your responsibilities will include developing order management systems, optimizing data processing pipelines, and collaborating with traders and FPGA engineers to enhance trading infrastructure. You will also contribute to pricing and trading models while ensuring the systems perform efficiently under real-time market conditions.
- benefits
- 2/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Optiver as an employer.
What you need
- Familiarity with the market microstructure of the US Equities and/or US ETF markets
- Strong engineering instincts and a deep understanding of computer science fundamentals
- Programming experience across C++ or C with other object-oriented languages considered
- Experience building low-latency trading systems on a large scale including across market data ingestion, order routing and execution performance
- Experience with exchange connectivity, order matching, and execution logic for major venues
- Experience optimizing high-throughput systems that must process and react in real-time to streams of market data
What you get
- 401(k) match up to 50% and fully paid health insurance
- 25 paid vacation days alongside market holidays
- Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and snacks, regular social events, clubs, sporting leagues and more
Worth weighing
- No salary listed beyond the base salary of $200,000
- The role involves high-pressure, low-error tolerance environments due to the nature of trading systems
- Collaboration with traders and engineers suggests a dynamic work environment that may require quick adaptation to changing needs
Summarised from Optiver 's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Optiver on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-23. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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