Software Engineer - Digital Assets

In this role you will design and build trading systems for digital asset markets, collaborating with traders and researchers to translate market insights into production systems. You’ll help shape the digital assets platform and engineering practices from the ground up, working in a fast-paced environment. You will connect to centralised exchanges, improve reliability, and troubleshoot across trading systems to support scalable, high‑fidelity execution. This position offers the opportunity to impact how Optiver trades in the growing crypto space with a focus on resilience and continuous improvement. You’ll join a collaborative, high‑performing team that values ownership and practical problem

• performance-based bonus
• 27 paid vacation days
• UK public holidays
• daily breakfast and lunch
• commuting expenses support
• private medical insurance, pension scheme, ClassPass membership

• Design and build trading systems for digital asset markets
• Develop and manage connectivity to centralised exchanges such as Binance, Deribit, and OKX
• Collaborate with traders and researchers to prototype and iterate on trading strategies
• Improve system reliability through automation, monitoring, and robust recovery mechanisms
• Troubleshoot issues across trading systems and exchange integrations
• Contribute to architecture and help shape the digital assets platform
• Take ownership of production systems and drive continuous improvements

• Experience building high-performance, reliable systems, ideally with exchange connectivity, market data, or real-time trading infrastructure
• Solid understanding of software architecture, networking, distributed systems, and failure handling
• C++ development skills and experience building reliable production systems (beneficial)
• Hands-on experience integrating with centralized cryptocurrency exchanges (e.g., Binance, Deribit, OKX) (beneficial)
• Experience with cloud technologies (e.g., AWS, GCP) (beneficial)
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to tackle complex technical challenges in fast-paced environments
• Collaborative mindset with ability to partner with traders and researchers
• Ability to translate ambiguous trading requirements into practical engineering solutions
• Ownership-driven mindset focused on building resilient systems

• strong problem-solving
• collaborative mindset
• ownership
• C++ development
• exchange connectivity
• cloud technologies (AWS, GCP)