NLSoftware Engineer - Research Infrastructure
OptiverAmsterdam
Why this is on the board
This work mainly serves Optiver's own trading: you build the systems the company uses to test and run trading strategies. The leverage is in the salary. If you give a large share of it away each year to well-researched charities, you can pay for the work of several people elsewhere. That route is called earning to give.
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About the role
Our cash equities engineering team is building out systems that must ingest and react to market data feeds from major US exchanges in microseconds or less, efficiently price and hedge positions of single stocks and ETFs and execute orders with extremely low error tolerance. We continually refine, store, and analyse terabytes of data produced by market activity and our trading systems. Our user interfaces must present coherent, responsive real-time visualisations of market activity and system…
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