Optiver - Graduate Trader

Ready to join a leading global market marker? Here’s your chance to discover what your world-class mathematical and analytical skills are made of. With a competitive edge and a finger on the pulse of global markets, you’ll be trusted to manage your diverse portfolio – as well as the risk that accompanies it. With your razor-sharp decision making skills, you thrive processing and reacting to a constant stream of live market data. Your success will be determined by your ability to take this information, and use it to strike the right balance between risk and reward.

Your trading activities will be supported by a collaborative team of brilliant researchers, engineers and analysts, with whom you’ll work closely to develop trading strategies that tackle complex market behaviours.

WHO WE ARE:

At Optiver, our mission is to improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilising force no matter the market conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement, we play an active role in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets for all participants. 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 on 70+ exchanges across the globe.

Our Amsterdam office is where it all began. Since our founding in 1986, Optiver’s Amsterdam office has developed into one of the most dynamic and exciting trading floors in Europe. Our culture reflects the Dutch capital city’s progressive, innovative and inclusive nature. With its unique spirit, Amsterdam is the ideal hub for our teams to trade a wide range of products, from listed derivatives to cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign exchange.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

Know nothing about trading or financial markets? Don’t worry – you bring the passion and we’ll provide the training to support you along the way.

Optiver is an industry leader across every product we choose to trade. We don’t just meet industry standard – we aim to set them by continually raising the bar for accurate pricing, execution and risk management. In order to remain at the forefront of market making, our teams must adapt, innovate and constantly improve. That’s where you come in.

We are looking for Graduate Traders to join Optiver’s trading floor – which is one of the most dynamic and exciting in Europe. As a Graduate Trader, you will price and trade financial products to fulfil our market making responsibilities, rapidly processing information from multiple sources and taking action to adjust parameters.

Upon starting as a Graduate Trader, you will be immersed into an intensive three-month training programme alongside other new recruits and employees from other departments within the organisation. Upon graduating from the training programme you will join one of our Trading teams. We believe hands-on experience is the best way to learn and that is exactly what we provide no matter what academic background you come from.