Who We Are Optiver is a global market maker founded in Amsterdam, with offices in London, Chicago, Austin, New York, Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei and Mumbai. Established in 1986, today we are a leading liquidity provider, with close to 2,000 employees in offices around the world, united in our commitment to improve the market through competitive pricing, execution and risk management. By providing liquidity on multiple exchanges across the world in various financial instruments we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and effective markets. We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, at our own risk, trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign currencies.

Optiver’s Sydney office is one of the primary players within Asian markets, trading a range of products. Established in 1996, we’re an active participant on the Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Japan exchanges, and act as Optiver’s APAC head office.

What You’ll Do

You will:

- Work day-to-day with traders and quant researchers to understand how we want to price, quote and execute in equities markets and apply your skills to designing software systems and high-performance trading logic to bring those ideas to life in live equities markets.
- Collaborate with other software engineers and contribute to the architecture of our globally distributed equities trading platform with hard real-time performance constraints.
- Experience the excitement of our fast-paced development cycle – owning a tight feedback loop, testing and shipping your code to production sometimes on the same day.
- Flex your low‑level engineering fundamentals by implementing performance‑sensitive low‑latency trading logic and strategies.

Who You Are





- With at least 2 years’ experience as a software engineer working with distributed systems, low-latency systems, backend systems or client/server architectures.
- Skilled at object-oriented programming in C++, or Java/C# with a strong desire to work in C++.
- Excellent understanding of computer science fundamentals like operating systems, data structures and algorithms.
- Familiar with a language like Python for developing tooling.
- Embrace AI tools for parts of their role, without sacrificing code quality or runtime performance.
- Excited by technically challenging problems.

If any of these describe you, we’re even more excited to talk to you:

- 5 or more years of experience as a software engineer on distributed or low-latency systems.
- Highly skilled in C++ development.
- Proficient with database technologies like Postgres for parameterisation, analytics, and research workflows.
- Experienced working in an electronic trading firm, or knowledge of equities trading fundamentals.
- Experienced working in a backtest-driven software development cycle.

What You’ll Get

- A performance‑based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool, fostering a truly collaborative environment.
- The chance to work alongside diverse and intelligent peers in a rewarding environment.
- Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities.
- Daily breakfast, lunch and an in‑house barista.
- Gym membership plus weekly in‑house chair massages.
- Regular social events, including a company trip every two years.
- Guided relocation, a competitive relocation package and visa sponsorship where necessary.

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process.

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📌 Algorithmic Trading C++ Engineer - Equities (City of Sydney)
🏢 Optiver
📍 City of Sydney