FPGA Engineer

WHO WE ARE

Optiver is a global market maker founded in Amsterdam with offices in London Chicago Austin New York Sydney Shanghai Hong Kong Singapore Taipei and Mumbai.Established in 1986 today we are a leading liquidity provider with close to 2000 employees in offices around the world united in our commitment to improve the market through competitive pricing and risk management.By providing liquidity on multiple exchanges across the world in various financial instruments we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets.We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital at our own risk trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives cash equities ETFs bonds and foreign currencies.

In Asia Pacific Optiver was one of the first global market makers to establish a presence in the region with the incorporation our Sydney office in 1996. Since then we have expanded our footprint by establishing offices in Taipei 2005 Hong Kong 2007 Shanghai 2012 and Singapore 2021. The business in Mumbai is newly established and deemed to be an integral part of the APAC strategy with an anticipation of significant growth over the coming years.

WHAT YOULL DO

As a senior FPGA developer youll hit the ground running as one of the founding members of our Mumbai FPGA & low latency development team working on Optivers platforms. Youll be focused on achieving bestinmarket trade on the highly competitive Indian exchanges: NSE BSE and MCX. But you wont be alone youll be backed by a strong collaboration with established FPGA & low latency development teams in Sydney and Shanghai plus gain exposure to the challenges in in Optivers global businesses including in the USA and Europe. Youll have a strong relationship with internal stakeholders including the trading risk compliance and research teams who will all be collocated with you in the Mumbai office.

Our platforms are responsible for placing orders from autotrading systems with as low a latency as possible implementing risk boundary checks order management and exchange connectivity. Youll get to:

• Develop solutions for our business challenges by implementing key features in our applications through to testing deployment and monitoring.
• Experience the excitement of our fastpaced development cycle owning a tight feedback loop testing and shipping your code to production within days.
• Collaborate with other software developers and contribute to the design and implementation of our high performance software applications.
• Flex your understanding of FPGA fundamentals by shaving out levels of logic to achieve a zero latency design.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Implement and build solutions to enable our low latency trading and help Optiver achieve number 1 status in Indian markets.
• Work with collaborators in Sydney and Shanghai to shape our APACwide platform to suit Indian markets needs.
• Liaise with stakeholders across the company to build the best solutions for Optiver.
• Manage deployments to reduce risk and provide production support where required.
• Help ensure quality is maintained throughout our systems including via code reviews.
• Contribute to our neverending goal of continuous improvement such as by providing feedback on where our systems and controls can be improved.
• Provide advice and guidance to junior developers.

WHO YOU ARE

To be successful for this role youll need to be someone with:

• 5 years experience in FPGA development.
• Proficient in one or more of the following: VHDL Verilog System Verilog.
• Experience leading projects as a technical leader.
• Basic skills in either C C or Python.
• Experience working with Linux.
• Understanding of computer networks and protocols (TCP IP UDP).

WHAT YOULL GET

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

Optiver is committed todiversity and inclusion.

We encourage applications from candidates from any and all backgrounds and we welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process to ensure that you can best demonstrate your abilities. Please let us know if you would like to request any reasonable adjustments by contacting the Recruitment team via.