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Software Engineer (C++) – Derivatives

A developer role in an options positional trading team, turning traders' and researchers' ideas into live trading software. It sits tightly integrated with the desk in Sydney, trading Asian markets.

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.

Build trading logic and tools with derivatives traders and researchers
Contribute to a distributed derivatives trading platform
Ship and monitor changes to production, sometimes same-day
Write fast data processing for strategy inputs

What they ask for

Required

2+ years as a software engineer
Distributed, low-latency or backend systems
Object-oriented C++, Java or C#
Operating systems, data structures and algorithms
Willingness to use C++ and Python

Education: No degree level stated.
Experience: At least 2 years as a software engineer on distributed, low-latency or backend systems
Languages and tools: C++
Python
Markets: options

How to prepare

Practise modern C++ and data-structure problems
Learn the basics of options pricing and Greeks
Build a small trading simulator in C++ with Python analysis
Study Asian exchange microstructure at a high level

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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.