Trading Production Engineering Team Lead

Optivers Trading Production Engineering team is at the heart of our real-time trading systems ensuring they operate with the highest levels of reliability performance and scalability. As Team Lead youll play a pivotal role in shaping how we manage our production environment across APAC and globally combining hands-on technical leadership with strategic oversight to drive operational excellence.

This role offers the unique opportunity to lead a high-performing team of engineers responsible for evolving the platforms that power Optivers low-latency trading operations. Your leadership will directly impact system resilience incident response automation and business performance in high-stakes markets.

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 OptiversAPAChead office.

WHAT YOULL DO

As a hands-on leader youll be responsible for:

• Leading and developing a world-class team of Trading Production Engineers including hiring coaching and fostering a culture of ownership accountability and continuous learning.
• Driving strategy and execution across our global trading production environment ensuring system uptime scalability and performance especially during peak market activity.
• Designing and managing global support coverage including a follow-the-sun model to ensure 24/7 reliability and seamless handovers across regions.
• Establishing operational standards including SLAs KPIs and control frameworks that ensure discipline audit-readiness and high service quality.
• Owning the incident lifecycle from real-time response to root cause analysis and long-term remediation embedding lessons learned into processes and tooling.
• Leading improvements in automation deployment workflows and monitoring reducing manual effort and increasing system robustness and agility.
• Ensuring production readiness for new exchanges trading strategies and infrastructure changes coordinating across development trading and infrastructure teams.
• Managing colocation environments and ensuring adequate redundancy performance headroom and operational capacity planning.
• Contributing technically to platforms tools and processes that enhance operational leverage observability and fault tolerance.
• Representing the team in leadership forums advocating for production priorities and aligning team objectives with broader business goals.

WHO YOU ARE

You are a pragmatic calm and strategic engineering leader who thrives in high-performance mission-critical environments. You know how to balance operational safety with system performance and people leadership with technical ownership.

Leadership & Communication

• Proven success leading technical operations SRE or production engineering teams in real-time or low-latency environments.
• Strong organizational skills with experience managing multi-region support and coordinating global rosters.
• Skilled communicator who can align business and technical stakeholders provide clarity under pressure and drive cross-functional collaboration.
• Passionate about coaching developing and retaining top engineering talent.

Technical & Operational Expertise

• Deep expertise in Linux-based distributed systems ideally in capital markets trading or similarly fast-paced environments.
• Strong proficiency in scripting and automation tools (e.g. Python Bash) CI/CD pipelines and observability systems.
• Demonstrated experience defining and managing SLAs/SLOs with a data-driven approach to improving reliability and performance.
• Comfortable leading incident response in high-pressure scenarios and building systems that prevent recurrence.
• Experience with colocation infrastructure system tuning and real-time telemetry is highly valuable.
• Exposure to high-frequency trading or low-latency financial systems is a strong plus.

Why This Role Matters

Trading at Optiver requires bulletproof infrastructure and your team will be the one keeping it that way. This is your chance to drive meaningful change in a globally distributed high-impact environment where engineering excellence directly fuels business success.

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 todiversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process.

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