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# Core Software Engineer

- **Company:** Optiver Group
- **Location:** AMSTERDAM, Netherlands
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** C++ (Programming Language), Data Processing, Real Time Systems, Low Latency, Production Code
- **Published:** September 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/software-engineer-real-time-pricing-optiver-8788144

## About the Role

* Experience designing and building large-scale, distributed or real-time systems
 * Strong software engineering fundamentals and an interest in writing reliable, maintainable production code
 * Ability to operate autonomously as well as collaborate with Traders, Researchers, other technical teams and business operations counterparts to deliver on complex business initiatives
 * Experience with C++ is a plus
 * Interest in systematic trading, derivatives pricing, or quantitative finance more broadly is a strong plus - but not a hard requirement; we will teach you what you need to know

What you'll get:

You'll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you'll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you'll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the toughest problems in the financial markets.

## Description

* Work directly with trading, researchers and other development teams in tightly knit working groups being responsible for overall success of the projects. We are not afraid of crossing team boundaries, learn about each other's domain and apply this expertise in practice.
 * Apply your engineering background to translate business problems into robust, production grade software
 * Work on our pricing platform - already a key competitive advantage - while helping push it even further by:
 + optimizing our low-latency data processing
 + optimizing our large scale compute
 + distribution of large volume datasets across multiple physical locations while ensuring consistency and atomicity
 + increasing automation to further reduce our time to market
 * Have a direct impact on business with a tight feedback loop
 * Join a strong and dynamic team

Who you are:

 * A software engineer with an entrepreneurial mindset and the ability to strategically identify the tools which are best placed and where time is best spent, to achieve the results needed for our business to continue performing at the highest possible level.


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