Software Engineer – Developer Tooling

Optiver is looking for a Software Engineer to join our Developer Excellence team in London with a focus on building the tools and platforms that power developer workflows. This role will play a critical part in creating a highquality developer environment from IDEs and plugins to AI assistants that enhances how our engineers write test and run code every day.

Were looking for a strong engineer with a passion for improving developer experience an awareness of modern tooling and workflows and a track record of identifying and implementing highimpact productivity improvements. Youll join a growing global team on a mission to improve every part of the developer experience at Optiver.

What youll do:

• Drive the adoption of consistent development environments across languages and teams with an emphasis on reproducibility and fast onboarding
• Explore and support the integration of AIassisted tools such as code generation and AI coding agents
• Contribute to the evolution and ownership of our source code platform and its surrounding ecosystem building and maintaining new integrations and automations
• Define and build metrics that help us measure and understand developer productivity and use these insights to guide future work
• Create and support integrations with documentation systems and code search tools to help developers find the information they need quickly
• Build and maintain tooling that simplify daytoday development at Optiver and make iteration faster and more seamless including IDE extensions commandline tools and containerbased workflows
• Partner with development teams to identify friction in their workflows and design solutions that simplify their setup improve iteration speed and enhance productivity
• Stay current with industry trends and emerging tools in the developer experience space helping guide our adoption of bestinclass solutions

What youll get

Youll join a culture of collaboration and excellence where youll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement youll thrive in a supportive highperforming environment alongside talented colleagues working collectively to tackle the toughest problems in the financial markets.

In addition youll receive:

• A competitive remuneration package including a performancebased bonus structure
• 27 paid vacation days plus all UK public holidays
• Daily breakfast and lunch along with support on commuting expenses
• Private medical insurance pension scheme and ClassPass fitness membership
• Training and continuous learning opportunities including access to conferences and tech events
• International transfer opportunities for global career growth

Who you are:

• Have strong engineering instincts and a deep understanding of computer science fundamentals
• Experienced writing software in Python with a proven ability to deliver scalable reliable highquality code and experience across other languages like C and C#
• Skilled in building developerfacing tools such as IDE extensions (e.g. for VSCode) commandline utilities and internal developer platforms
• Has supported the integration of AIassisted development tools into real developer workflows
• Familiar with source code platforms like GitHub and has built tooling and workflows with them to improve developer experience
• Experienced in defining capturing and leveraging developer productivity metrics to inform priorities and measure impact

Who we are:

At Optiver our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity providing accurate pricing increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing force no matter the market conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets for everyone who participates. We tackle the toughest problems challenge the status quo and always aim for excellence. As one of the largest market making institutions we are a trusted partner of 70 exchanges across the globe.

What youll get

Youll join a culture of collaboration and excellence where youll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement youll thrive in a supportive highperforming environment alongside talented colleagues working collectively to tackle the toughest problems in the financial markets.

In addition youll receive:

• A competitive remuneration package including a performancebased bonus structure.
• 27 paid vacation days plus all UK public holidays.
• Daily breakfast and lunch along with support on commuting expenses.
• Private medical insurance pension scheme and ClassPass fitness membership.
• Training and continuous learning opportunities including access to conferences and tech events.
• International transfer opportunities for global career growth.

Diversity statement:

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.

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