Optiver
Production Engineering Graduates & Interns - Expressions of Interest
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Opportunity details
- Graduate Job or Program, Internship, Clerkship or Placement
- $150,000+
- 5 vacancies
At Optiver, our proprietary trading system is the cornerstone of our success. We operate in a fast feedback, quick release environment with a DevOps culture at its core. Our Production Engineers own and develop the platform we build, deploy, manage and monitor our global low-latency trading system on, to ensure that we never miss a great trade.
The Engineers we look for are passionate and curious about technology. They are primarily problem focused and aren't phased when they need to learn a new technology because it's the right tool for the job. Familiarity with Linux is a big plus. They'll also want to:
- Operate in a hybrid engineering role – think a mix of Developer and SRE.
- Use a breadth of technology including different languages, custom built and open source to solve the problems inherent in operating a globally distributed, low-latency trading system.
- Learn our business and what it takes to compete in the most competitive markets in the world.
Please note, our formal applications for Graduate and Intern opportunities are currently closed. We are seeking expressions of interest for our 2021 campaign and would love to hear from you! Please complete this application to join our Production Engineering 'Talent Community' and ensure that you identify your year of graduation, so that we can keep you up to date with suitable upcoming vacancies.
Optiver embraces diversity and encourages applications from people with disability. Candidates will have the opportunity to request support or reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process in order to demonstrate their ability to meet the inherent requirements of the job.
If you have any questions regarding this opportunity, please contact us at careers@optiver.com.au.
Reviews
I am a trader. It is my responsibility to make decisions about which trades to make, how to parametrise our systems, and work with other traders and developers to improve our systems
Due to the emphasis on business acumen, employees know about the business impact of what they work on, and why it matters. As a software dev, I work on maintaining and developing software solutions to solve business/compliance problems.
Working with traders to improve the behaviour of auto traders. Very interesting and rewarding. Given a lot of project ownership.
About the employer
Optiver
4.6
1,000 - 50,000 employees
Trading
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Pros and cons of working at Optiver
Pros
The responsibility to work on impactful projects from early on.
The perks - company trip, daily meals, weekly massages.
Opportunities are there for people who want them -- you can very quickly take ownership of a problem or space.
Lots of smart people and interesting problems to solve.
People challenge each other to be best that they can be. There is no blame with errors and every opportunity to learn is taken.
Cons
You will constantly be working on different products, with tight timelines and high ownership.
The finance domain is quite complex, and onboarding/learning about new financial concepts... is challenging.
The expectations are high and constant.
Too many things that could be done.
Can be intense at times