Jun 23, 2022
As a Production Engineer, you'll be responsible for deploying, maintaining, monitoring and improving the reliability, scalability and performance of our in-house built trading systems. Having a decisive nature, engineering mindset and preference for simple solutions are essential to keeping our systems reliable. Being highly international, we are accustomed to guiding expats through their relocation, offering competitive relocation packages and providing visa sponsorship where necessary.
The Production Engineer role is crucial for Optiver's trading activities. Your scope will cover market access, monitoring and compliance, strategy evaluation and management, performance tuning and trading automation. Sitting in the middle of our buzzing trading floor, you will have constant face-to-face interaction with end-users (Traders and Researchers as well as fellow Engineers). This is an engineering role, not a support role, so you'll set the standards for our production environment. As part of our core business, you will make a real, direct impact on our ability to trade and trading results. No two days are the same in our high-stakes, flat-hierarchy environment.
Learn more about a day in the life of a Production Engineer (we call this job Application Engineer internally) in this blog post and this video.
You are a pragmatic, logical thinker.
With a facilitating and enabling attitude, you always strive to find clean and simple solutions.
You are naturally curious about hardware and software, and how these interact.
You want to work on a broad range of projects and use various tools to best solve any problem at hand.
With a hands-on approach, you can look at code, figure out how it works and explore how to make it better.
You are able to clearly explain your thoughts through written and verbal communication, ask the right questions, and are not afraid to challenge or defend a strategy.
You seek out opportunities to leave your comfort zone and enjoy frequent change.
Experience managing day-to-day operations of software and hardware infrastructure
Strong affinity with Unix/Linux systems
The ability to automate tasks using Python
Strong design, debugging, and problem solving skills
Experience with relational databases (e.g. we use PostgreSQL but welcome experience with any other database);
An understanding of networking fundamentals and protocols.
No prior trading or financial experience is needed – our onboarding program will kick-start your career at Optiver and support you in gaining all the relevant knowledge about our business.
The chance to start your career working alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries.
Our performance based bonus structure is unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool fostering a truly collaborative environment to work in.
Alongside this you will get great secondary benefits such as 25 paid vacation days, fully paid first-class commuting expenses, training opportunities, discounts on health insurance, breakfast and lunch facilities, sports and leisure activities, Friday afternoon drinks and even weekly in-house chair massages. Being highly international, we are accustomed to guiding expats through their relocation, offering competitive relocation packages and providing visa sponsorship where necessary.
How to apply:
Are you interested in furthering your career on one of the most dynamic and exciting trading floors in Europe?
Apply directly via the form below for the position of Production Engineer. Please provide us with a CV and letter of motivation in English. Applications without a letter of motivation will not be reviewed. When we think there is a potential match, you will hear from us sooner than you expect. If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruiter Theo Schneider via theoschneider@optiver.com
If you are selected from your application to proceed to the next round for the position of Production Engineer, you will be required to take an online assessment.