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Who we are
Optiver is a global leader in electronic exchange trading with offices in Amsterdam, Chicago, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Sydney and Taiwan. We take immense pride in our people, our trading and our technology. Our traders and software developers work collaboratively in order to drive our business and technical innovation.
Our Shanghai office is growing fast!
We have been operating in Shanghai for over 2 years and are experiencing rapid growth. Our organisational structure is open and we have a casual yet focused working environment. We have a strong culture which has resulted in awards for the Best Places to Work in Australia and Asia for the past three years.
Due to the growth in our Shanghai office and unbelievable opportunities in the Chinese market, we have a number of career-charging opportunities available for talented and passionate technologists to join us.
Who you are
You are passionate about software engineering. You take pride in clean, simple and effective code. You love using your software skills and creative thinking to solve complex problems and want to work with others to do so. You ’ re an engineer with a deep understanding of software and a real knack for optimising and simplifying code. You take pride in your work and you want to deliver world class software in an extremely competitive environment.
What you ’ ll do
Working closely with our trading department and other offices, you ’ ll be building our automated trading systems and connections to exchanges in China. You ’ ll be working collaboratively with other excellent developers as well as researching and integrating new technologies into our systems as the opportunities arise.
Your skills and experience • 1-5 years of industry software engineering / development experience using C/C++ • A passion for delivering high quality software which is simple, fast and reliable • Strong problem solving skills and demonstrated ability to drive innovation and work in a self-sufficient manner • An understanding of a broad range of technologies, such as operating systems, multithreading, networking, databases and virtualisation • Strong verbal and written communication skills • Experience with TDD, agile methodologies, visualisation or low latency systems would be nice but are not essential • Industry experience with C#, Java or Python will also be highly regarded. For a confidential discussion and to hear more about Optiver, apply now and we'll be in touch ASAP.