Optiver Asia Pacific

Grads

If you thrive in a team environment, have great communication skills, approach things enthusiastically and always act with integrity, chances are there’s a place for you at Optiver.

Check out our expectations of each role by selecting one of the options below

Trader

Our Traders (Market Makers) provide bids and offers to the financial market on-screen. When someone places an order to buy or sell a financial product, the majority of the time it will be a Trader on the other side providing the price. To succeed, you must:
be a penultimate or final-year/Honours student or recent graduate
have a distinction/high grade-point average
have studied, or be studying, Commerce, Economics, Science, Maths, Actuarial, Engineering, Physics, Finance, Computer Science or similar
VBA, Excel, Python or SQL would be highly regarded

You also know how to think analytically and conceptually, like solving problems, and come up with great ideas. A flair for numbers, a passion for finance and the markets, a sense of humour, and a hugely competitive streak will give you the edge.

Wholesale Trader

Our Wholesale Traders enjoy trading in the Wholesale market. They maintain key international relationships, manage large portfolios, make fast trading decisions and trade high volumes over the phone. To succeed, you must:
be a penultimate or final-year/Honours student or recent graduate
have a distinction/high grade-point average
have studied, or be studying, Commerce, Economics, Finance or similar

If you’re also a great communicator with outstanding numerical skills, and you love a challenge in a competitive environment, this could be the best career move you will ever make.

IT

We aim to run the fastest and most reliable systems in the market, systems that are also flexible enough to respond to change. And we look to our IT department to do it! We have two specialist IT teams; Development and Operations. Together these teams develop and maintain hundreds of applications and processes running daily in Optiver offices, in Europe, The Americas and the Asia Pacific region.

Graduate Developers

As a graduate within our ever-expanding development team, you will help to develop new in-house trading systems, and improve existing ones. These systems need to be the fastest in the market, highly reliable and flexible enough to respond to changing market conditions and business requirements. To succeed, you must:
be a final-year or recent graduate from either a Bachelor, Masters or PhD degree in Computer Science, Business Information System, Software Engineering or similar
have a strong grasp of O-O design and development concepts
understand algorithms and data structures
have some technical knowledge in either C++ / C#
have basic Networking knowledge

Creativity, a passion for finding clever solutions, a strong team ethic, excellent communication skills and a sense of humour will seal your success.

Graduate Application Engineers (Graduate Trading Systems Engineer)

You are a problem solver, with a good sense of humour, excellent communication skills and the ability to keep things in perspective. Look forward to working on various trading applications with a technical and business focus. You’ll also be doing a lot of technical troubleshooting, managing application performance and liaising with end-users. To succeed, you must:
be a final-year student or recent graduate
be studying, or have studied, Computer Science or Information Technology or similar
be proactive and customer-focused
have a good understanding of Internet Protocol

Some experience in Shell scripting, such as Bash/Perl, would also be a plus but is not essential.