Optiver
Software Engineer - Equities/ETFs
$200K
New York, New York +1 · Full-time · Posted Apr 24, 2026
- Location
- New York, New York
New York, New York, United States
About the job
Build and maintain low-latency trading infrastructure and systems for US equities and ETFs, supporting market data processing, pricing, research, and order execution.
What you'll do
- Set technical direction for cash equities trading initiatives and develop trading infrastructure, including OMS and EMS.
- Contribute to pricing, research, and trading models; optimize market-data processing and execution performance.
- Work with FPGA engineers, traders, researchers, and other engineers on execution logic and market-impact models.
What they ask for
- Familiarity with the market microstructure of US Equities and/or US ETF markets.
- Programming experience in C++ or C; other object-oriented languages are also considered.
- Experience building large-scale, low-latency trading systems across market-data ingestion, order routing, and execution performance.
- Experience with exchange connectivity, order matching, execution logic, and real-time, high-throughput market-data systems.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with building and integrating FPGA-assisted trading systems.
Pay
$200,000 — $200,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
C++, C, FPGA, OMS, EMS
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