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Software Engineer – Automated Trading Systems

A core engineering role on the infrastructure behind a market maker's automated trading. It sits in the core software team that the trading-focused development teams build on.

What you’d work on

Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.

Improve the performance and stability of shared core trading components
Review and simplify code that trading teams depend on
Work with trading teams to shape new platform directions
Debug concurrency and latency problems in C++ on Linux

What they ask for

Required

4+ years software engineering
Algorithms, memory and concurrency models
CPU architecture and operating systems
Relational databases
C++ on Linux or willingness to learn

Preferred

Python and C# experience

Education: No degree level stated.
Experience: 4+ years in software engineering; finance experience not required
Languages and tools: C++
Python
C#

How to prepare

Study memory models, lock-free structures and cache behaviour
Write and benchmark a small C++ order-book component
Learn Linux profiling tools such as perf
Understand at a high level how an exchange matching engine works

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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with Optiver and doesn’t handle applications.