Head of Execution Technology

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 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 providing liquidity on multiple exchanges across the world in various financial instruments we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient 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

We are looking for an experienced Software Development Team Lead (C & FPGA) to lead our India Execution Team focused on building Optivers next-generation ultra-low latency trading systems.

In this role you will lead a hybrid team of C software engineers and FPGA developers driving the design and delivery of systems that achieve best-in-market trade execution across Indian exchanges (NSE BSE MCX). Youll work at the intersection of software and hardware shaping how system architecture is split across software and the FPGA to optimise latency throughput and reliability.

You wont be doing this in isolation - youll collaborate closely with established execution and FPGA teams in Sydney and Shanghai while contributing to Optivers broader execution strategy across APAC.

As a leader youll partner with trading risk compliance and research teams locally in Mumbai to define and execute the vision for our execution platform. Youll join an already established team with strong talent focusing on scaling the team and maintaining a high-performance engineering culture while remaining hands-on in system design across C and FPGA and contributing directly to C development.

Our engineers own problems end-to-endfrom understanding trading challenges to designing implementing testing and deploying solutions into live markets. Development is fast-paced and impactful with features often reaching production within days.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Lead and grow a high-performance team of C and FPGA engineers including hiring mentoring and performance management.

• Define and evolve the architecture of our ultra-low latency trading stack balancing software and hardware design decisions.

• Design and implement high-performance C systems for order management exchange connectivity and risk controls.

• Guide the development of FPGA components and hybrid FPGA/software systems for latency-critical paths.

• Partner with trading and research teams to improve execution performance and ensure Optiver is #1 in execution for Indian markets.

• Contribute to the strategy and vision for Optivers Asia Pacific execution capability.

• Drive robustness and quality through strong engineering practices including code reviews testing and production monitoring.

• Own and improve automated trading risk controls within our execution systems.

• Collaborate across global teams to share knowledge and influence broader system design.

WHO YOU ARE

Were looking for a technically strong and people-focused leader with a background in building high-performance systems and a passion for developing teams. You should have:

• 5 years of experience as a Software Engineer with strong C experience building backend systems client-server architectures or distributed systems.

• 3 years of demonstrated formal leadership experience.

• Experience developing or maintaining exchange connectivity systems or other high-reliability latency-sensitive systems.

• Proven ability to solve technically challenging problems with a pragmatic and results-driven mindset.

• Experience owning work across the full software development lifecycle - from requirements gathering through design implementation testing and production delivery.

• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with trading research and other business teams.

• Experience leading projects as a technical owner driving delivery and influencing design decisions.

• Interest in working across software and hardware boundaries in hybrid C/FPGA systems.

If you have any of these were even more excited to hear from you:

• Experience working with FPGAs or embedded systems or exposure to hardware/software co-design.

• Background in low latency systems within a similar trading firm.

• Experience directly leading a team.

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.