Production Software Engineering Team Lead

Optiver is looking for a senior software engineer and experienced leader to head our APAC Production Software Engineering team. In this role youll lead a highly technical group responsible for designing building and evolving the systems workflows and standards that make up our production management platform the foundation on which our global trading environment is deployed. Your work will be critical to enabling innovation and operating at scale safely reliably and with maximum velocity.

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 execution 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.

Optivers Sydney office is one of the primary players within Asian markets trading a range of products. Established in 1996 were an active participant on the Hong Kong Korea Singapore Taiwan and Japan exchanges and act as Optivers APAC head office.

WHAT YOULL DO

As Team Lead youll drive both strategy and execution for our production environment including its architecture standards and the systems that govern how applications are built deployed and run. Youll shape the platform that underpins all production activity from binary acceptance to deployment workflows and runtime management. Youll set the teams direction mentor engineers and collaborate with global counterparts to align production practices across regions.

This is a hybrid leadership role: youll be accountable for people architecture and delivery while continuing to contribute technically to strategic key responsibilities will include:

• Leading a high-performing team of Production Software Engineers including hiring coaching and technical development

• Defining and delivering the roadmap for production engineering in collaboration with stakeholders across development operations and infrastructure

• Owning the systems and workflows that govern the production environment including change validation deployment application standards process management and environment structure

• Ensuring the production environment evolves to meet business needs scaling with trading demands while minimizing operational complexity

• Contributing to key codebases and designs especially in foundational or high-leverage areas

• Partnering with engineering teams in Europe and the US to drive global consistency in production practices and infrastructure

WHO YOU ARE

Youre a systems-minded engineering leader who thrives at the intersection of software infrastructure and operations. Youre passionate about enabling fast safe change and understand the value of clear standards scalable workflows and high-trust automation in a production context.

You must have:

• Extensive experience in software engineering particularly designing and delivering systems at scale

• A proven track record of leading technical teams and delivering complex infrastructure and/or platform projects

• Deep knowledge of software systems operating environments and how distributed applications run in production

• A strong improvement mindset with the ability to simplify complex systems and reduce operational friction

Beneficial though not required:

• Proficiency in Python

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines configuration management tools and modern web frameworks

• Experience working in trading or other high-performance low-latency environments

WHAT YOULL GET

• A performance-based bonus structureunmatchedanywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks teams and offices into a global profit pool fostering a truly collaborative environment.

• The chance to work alongside diverse and intelligent peers in a rewardingenvironment.

• Training mentorship and personal development opportunities.

• Daily breakfast lunch and an in-house barista.

• Gym membership plus weekly in-house chair massages.

• Regular social events including a company trip every two years.

• Guided relocation a competitive relocation package and visa sponsorship where necessary.

DIVERSITY STATEMENT

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process.

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