Optiver Amsterdam

When prices change on the exchange the person that reacts first can make a profit: having the lowest latency is absolutely critical. This is why IT has always played a central role in our business. We were among the first to bring wireless devices to the trading floor in the 80s and have been early adapters of new technology ever since. Optiver's current systems already react within a incredibly small fraction of a second but we continue to research and deploy innovative ideas in all IT areas.

As well as the cool of the new, we are also quietly proud of the scale of Optiver's IT infrastructure. We use hundreds of network devices, thousands of high spec hosts and tens of thousands of fibre kilometres. We create our own trading and middleware software which handle a staggering number of transactions per day. It's all pretty surprising for a trading company with only 600 employees globally.

You can't win if you don't finish the race so our other challenge is to provide near perfect uptime. There are few fields where IT people get to create and maintain systems with the triple requirements of latency, capacity and availability. If you are excited by the opportunity this presents and find our culture appealing we'd love to hear from you.