Software Engineer – Developer Tooling

Optiver is looking for a Software Engineer to join our Developer Excellence team in London, with a focus on building the tools and platforms that power developer workflows. This role will play a critical part in creating a high-quality developer environment — from IDEs and plugins to AI assistants — that enhances how our engineers write, test, and run code every day.

We’re looking for a strong engineer with a passion for improving developer experience, an awareness of modern tooling and workflows, and a track record of identifying and implementing high-impact productivity improvements. You’ll join a growing global team on a mission to improve every part of the developer experience at Optiver.

What you’ll do :

• Drive the adoption of consistent development environments across languages and teams, with an emphasis on reproducibility, and fast onboarding
• Explore and support the integration of AI-assisted tools, such as code generation and AI coding agents
• Contribute to the evolution and ownership of our source code platform and its surrounding ecosystem, building and maintaining new integrations and automations
• Define and build metrics that help us measure and understand developer productivity, and use these insights to guide future work
• Create and support integrations with documentation systems and code search tools to help developers find the information they need quickly
• Build and maintain tooling that simplify day-to-day development at Optiver and make iteration faster and more seamless — including IDE extensions, command-line tools, and container-based workflows
• Partner with development teams to identify friction in their workflows and design solutions that simplify their setup, improve iteration speed, and enhance productivity
• Stay current with industry trends and emerging tools in the developer experience space, helping guide our adoption of best-in-class solutions

What you'll get

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the toughest problems in the financial markets.

In addition, you’ll receive :

Who you are :

Who we are :

At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing force no matter the market conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement, we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets for everyone who participates. We tackle the toughest problems, challenge the status quo, and always aim for excellence. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.

What you'll get

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the toughest problems in the financial markets.

In addition, you’ll receive :

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