NLSoftware Engineer - Automated Trading Systems
OptiverAmsterdam
Why this is on the board
The work itself, trading software for a market maker, does not solve an urgent problem; the leverage lies in the salary and the shared profit pool, which at Optiver can come out well above an ordinary developer job. If you deliberately give a large part of that away to well-evidenced charities (earning to give), you can pay for the work of several people who do work directly on such problems, though that depends on how much you actually donate and to what.
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About the role
Optiver leverages technology to solve a variety of complex problems: optimising for scarce bandwidth, responding to market events with nanosecond speed, automatically pricing complex sets of financial instruments with extremely low error tolerance, and analysing huge volumes of data. Our systems are built to add to the stability of the market, not detract from it; therefore they must operate at peak efficiency in the most extreme market conditions. To achieve this, our user interfaces must pr…
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