Full-Time
Senior Technical Recruiter
Posted on 8/25/2025
Optiver
1,001-5,000 employees
Global market maker providing liquidity.
No salary listed
No H1B Sponsorship
Austin, TX, USA + 1 more
More locations: Chicago, IL, USA
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- 7+ years of experience in the technology or trading recruitment industry and a strong understanding of the competitive landscape today for recruiting talent in the US
- A passion for finding niche talent in a competitive market and a strong curiosity to build your expertise as a recruiter across multiple business domains, continually refining your craft as a recruiter
- Demonstrates strong candidate relationship management by understanding candidate needs and are confident in connecting candidates to the right opportunities
- Proven capability to coach, guide and advise stakeholders on hiring processes and consider best practices
- A data-backed mindset, having previously used data to inform decision making with an understanding of recruiting metrics and how to utilize them to influence hiring decisions
- Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required; we will not sponsor individuals for employment authorization for this job opening
- You'll take ownership of the tech end-to-end recruitment process, including – but not limited to – developing sourcing strategies, mapping and headhunting niche talent, crafting the selection process, reviewing resumes, interviewing and assessing candidates, salary negotiations and closing of candidates
- You'll forge strong partnerships with stakeholders, sourcing and recruitment partners to build robust candidate pipelines
- You’ll design and deliver innovative approaches to source and identify passive talent
- You’ll create, recommend, and implement strategies to tackle problems and build pipelines through sourcing, referrals and research
- You’ll coach, guide and advise stakeholders on hiring processes and consider best practices
- You’ll take a data driven approach to provide insights into the health of the hiring pipeline, provide direction, and training to stakeholders
- You'll be delivering a high-touch experience, from application stage to offer, and demonstrate capability to not only assess cultural add but also represent the culture of the organization
- You may have been an agency recruiter, working to find rare, niche talent or have experience as an in-house recruiter, matching a deep understanding of business needs with a knack for finding and attracting exceptional talent
- You are motivated to get results and pride yourself on having a growth mindset
Optiver provides liquidity as a global market maker. It trades its own money across major financial markets in Europe, Asia Pacific, and North America, dealing in stocks, bonds, and derivatives on more than 50 exchanges. Its product works through proprietary technology and trading algorithms that analyze market data to price instruments and execute trades quickly. By continuously offering to buy and sell at competitive prices, Optiver earns profits from the spread between bid and ask prices and helps ensure there is always a buyer or seller available for institutional clients such as banks, hedge funds, and pension funds. This approach contributes to market stability and efficiency. The company's differentiator is its use of advanced technology and proprietary trading strategies at a large global scale to provide reliable liquidity to professional market participants. The goal is to improve market liquidity and pricing while generating profits from market-making activities.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Founded
1986
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Optiver net profit rose 29% to €1.769 billion in 2025 from AI investments.
- Optiver hired Qian Zhao from Goldman Sachs and Lloyd Satchwell from Millennium.
- Optiver secured Edward Nathan Varghese with Rs 2.5 crore offer from IIT Hyderabad.
What critics are saying
- IMC poaches Optiver AI quants like Zhou Fang within 6-12 months.
- Citadel captures Optiver's US options market share in 12-24 months.
- Goldman Sachs hires demand 20-30% higher pay, causing US turnover in 3-6 months.
What makes Optiver unique
- Optiver launched independent AI Lab in Shanghai with Zhou Fang from IMC.
- Optiver expanded AI Lab to New York under Andrew Arnold from Shopify.
- Optiver invests in JapanNext, Digital Asset, McKay Brothers for market infrastructure.
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Benefits
Transparent bonus structure
Top tier benefits
Generous vacation time
Health and wellness programs
Company News
Electronic trading giant Optiver is building out a new AI Lab. 8 April 2026 Over the past few years, AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic have been unabashed in their pursuit of top young talent from electronic trading and HFT firms. Optiver, an Amsterdam/Chicago based trading giant, has decided two can play at that game. Earlier in the year, it launched an AI Lab in Shanghai. It's not clear how large the team is right now, nor when exactly it was founded, but one of its members is Zhou Fang, who joined in February of this year. He's a PhD mathematician who had worked as a deep learning quant for rival trading firm IMC in Chicago for five months after graduating. He describes himself as a founding member of the lab but is understood not to be in charge. The Shanghai lab has job openings for both a machine learning engineer and an AI researcher; listings call the AI Lab a "newly established team [which] will operate independently from our core trading operations" to apply "advanced AI and machine learning technologies to complex problems." Optiver is looking for people with "startup mindset but Big Tech rigor." There's precedent for spinning an AI lab out of a trading firm in China. Deepseek was founded by Liang Wenfeng, founder of Chinese quant fund High-Flyer, who used the fund's profits to finance his AI research. Optiver should have plenty of money to fund the lab after its primary business saw a lot of success in 2025; its annual review published last week said that net trading revenue was up by over €1bn ($1.17bn). Seemingly happy with the results so far, Optiver is building out a team for its AI lab in the US. This week, Andrew Arnold announced he was joining the firm as its head of research for the AI lab in New York. He's an adjunct machine learning professor at NYU and was most recently a principal applied machine learning engineer for eCommerce firm Shopify. Arnold was also previously a machine learning researcher at Google. He was also previously a portfolio manager at Cubist, the systematic arm of hedge fund Point72, and was the chief technology officer of hedge fund Trexquant. Optiver did not respond to a request for comment. Have a confidential story, tip, or comment you'd like to share? Contact: WhatsApp: http://wa.me/442079977910 (+44 20 7997 7910), Telegram: @AlexMcMurray, Signal: @AlexMcMurrayEFC.88 Click here to fill in our anonymous form, or email [email protected]. Bear with us if you leave a comment at the bottom of this article: comments are moderated intermittently by human beings. Sometimes these humans might be asleep, or away from their desks, so it may take a while for your comment to appear. You must take sole responsibility for comments you post on this site. We will take reasonable steps to weed out anything that we consider to be offensive or inappropriate. The essential daily roundup of news and analysis read by everyone from senior bankers and traders to new recruits. Boost your career. Find thousands of job opportunities by signing up to eFinancialCareers today.
Optiver reports robust financial results for 2025. Optiver, a leading global market maker, announced a strong set of financial results for the year 2025, as the company marked its 40th anniversary. The firm reported a net profit of €1.769 billion attributable to equity holders for 2025, up 29% from the previous year (€1.369 billion). Net trading income for 2025 rose to €4.556 billion, an increase of 30% versus 2024 (€3.494 billion). Optiver ended the year in a strong financial position, with total equity of €5.490 billion compared with €4.905 billion at the end of 2024. "Our ambition is clear: to continue strengthening our position as a global liquidity provider, without compromising risk discipline." Jan Boomaars, Optiver CEO 2025 in review. Despite an uncertain and shifting market environment, Optiver remained a consistent and reliable provider of liquidity. High volumes and price swings across asset classes and regions in recent years have sharpened the firm's pricing, execution and risk management capabilities. The firm's continued investment in technology - especially artificial intelligence (AI), data and compute - positioned Optiver well for fast-changing markets. Against this backdrop, Optiver delivered strong financial results. The firm's performance during the year was driven partly by prevailing market conditions and partly by disciplined execution across the firm. Across its core franchises, Optiver US LLC defended its position in highly competitive markets and gained market share in others. Optiver US LLC entered new business areas and deepened its presence in U.S. capital markets, opening a new office in New York and expanding its trading activities in new asset classes. Two themes stood out. First, the growing importance of systematic, data- and research powered trading. Second, the increasing application of artificial intelligence. Optiver continued to invest in market structure and financial infrastructure through its Principal Strategic Investments portfolio. These investments are closely aligned with its core business, providing early access to developments in trading, data and connectivity. Over the past year, Optiver US LLC has expanded its portfolio across key areas. This included investments in JapanNext, a leading alternative trading venue in Japan; Digital Asset, the company behind the Canton Network; McKay Brothers, a leader in ultra-low latency market data and connectivity; Nasdaq Private Market, an institutional-grade secondary trading venue for private companies; and Optimal, a new U.S. listed options execution platform. Key figures. 40 years. Trades executed every day Financial instruments priced. €4,556m. Net trading income in 2025. Full-time employees in 2025 About Optiver. Optiver is a global market maker founded in Amsterdam, with offices in London, Chicago, Austin, New York, Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei and Mumbai. Established in 1986, today Optiver US LLC is a leading liquidity provider, with more than 2,000 employees in offices around the world, united in its commitment to improve the market through competitive pricing, execution and risk management. By providing liquidity on multiple exchanges across the world in various financial instruments Optiver US LLC participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets. Optiver US LLC provide liquidity to financial markets using its own capital, at its own risk, trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign currencies.
Optiver hired a quant trader from Millennium's central execution book. 4 hours ago Optiver, the high frequency trading firm that's based in Amsterdam has made a hire from hedge fund Millennium. Lloyd Satchwell, a London-based trader who was a quant trader on Millennium's central execution book, has joined Optiver to run the central risk book according to his LinkedIn profile. Satchwell didn't respond to an overture that may have resulted in a comment. Satchwell described himself as working on the central execution book at Millennium. Speaking last year, Giuseppe Paleologo, the head of quantitative research at Balyasny Asset Management (BAM), said the purpose of a central liquidity book at a multistrategy hedge fund is to allocate risk to individual portfolio managers and strategies at appropriate moments. Quant researchers often occupy such roles: last year, Thomas Yang, a former quant researcher at Citadel turned head of the central liquidity book at BAM left for North Rock Capital Management. Last April, Millennium appointed Mark Holder as its global head of central liquidity strategies. Holder was a former CTO at Citadel in Chicago. Have a confidential story, tip, or comment you'd like to share? Contact: +44 7537 182250 (SMS, Whatsapp or voicemail). Telegram: @SarahButcher. Signal: sarahbutcher.22 Click here to fill in our anonymous form, or email [email protected]. Bear with us if you leave a comment at the bottom of this article: comments are moderated intermittently by human beings. Sometimes these humans might be asleep, or away from their desks, so it may take a while for your comment to appear. You must take sole responsibility for comments you post on this site. We will take reasonable steps to weed out anything that we consider to be offensive or inappropriate. The essential daily roundup of news and analysis read by everyone from senior bankers and traders to new recruits. Boost your career. Find thousands of job opportunities by signing up to eFinancialCareers today. Top Articles
Optiver and AMT continue in partnership. The Australian Maths Trust (AMT) is pleased to announce a continuation of their partnership with Optiver, a leading tech driven trading firm. Optiver will continue to partner with the AMT to support the Olympiad program for the next five (5) years. Mark Barnes, Director of Olympiads and Pathways at the AMT, looks forward to continuing to work with the team at Optiver. "It is exciting to continue our relationship with Optiver - they have been a strong supporter of the AMT for a number of years, and several Olympiad alumni have transitioned into key roles at Optiver. This partnership highlights the opportunities available to students and program staff, and we look forward to continuing this into the future." Optiver's Head of Recruitment (APAC) John Rogan has a similar view. "The Australian Maths Trust embodies the qualities we value most in a partner: a deep commitment to problem-solving, a proven track record of elevating mathematical and computational talent across Australia, and a strong culture of integrity and continuous improvement. Through our continued partnership with AMT, we're proud to help create meaningful pathways for young mathematicians to challenge themselves and excel, while also supporting initiatives such as the Australian Girls' Maths and Informatics teams to broaden access and opportunity at the highest levels of competition. Together, we're investing in the future of problem solvers who will shape tomorrow's world." New AMT CEO Mat Meriaux looks forward to continuing the relationship. "As AMT enters a period of strategic review in 2026, it's very comforting to know that we have the support of our long-term partners Optiver as we look to the future. Optiver has supported the Australian Olympiad program for many years, and this new agreement solidifies what has been one of the enduring and productive relationships of the Trust." About Australian Maths Trust (AMT) AMT's vision is to develop a nation of creative problem solvers, and Australian Mathematics Trust believe maths is the most effective way to get students there. The AMT's competitions and programs provide an opportunity for young Australians to challenge and extend their creative problem-solving skills and prepare them for a future of real-world problems. MEDIA CONTACT 17 March 2026
Who is edward Nathan Varghese? 21-yr-old from IIT Hyderabad student to bag Rs 2.5 crore job offer. When placement season opened this year, the mood across engineering campuses was cautious. Recruiters were selective, students were pragmatic and conversations revolved more around stability than stratospheric pay. Then a Rs 2.5 crore package from IIT Hyderabad cut through the uncertainty. Until now, the institute's highest package hovered around Rs 1 crore, achieved in 2017. This year, another computer science student secured an offer of Rs 1.1 crore. Who is edward Nathan Varghese? Edward Nathan Varghese, a 21-year-old final-year computer science student at the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad (IITH), has landed the highest package in the institute's history. The offer came from Netherlands-based trading firm Optiver. Born and raised in Hyderabad, Varghese later moved to Bengaluru, where he completed his schooling from Class 7 onwards. The confidence he carried into placements, he said, was built over years rather than weeks. From his first year at IIT Hyderabad, he immersed himself in competitive programming, eventually ranking among the top 100 coders in the country, a report by Times of India stated. "That made a big difference. Along with that, the curriculum here allowed us to explore a wide range of courses. I always felt the IIT tag would bring companies to campus and that the market slowdown wouldn't affect top profiles as much," he further said. Both his parents are engineers. During the Optiver internship, Varghese underwent two weeks of training followed by a six-week project designed to test both technical depth and decision-making under pressure. Of the two IITH students selected for the internship, he was the only one to receive a PPO. Varghese will join Optiver as a software engineer at its Netherlands office from July. His entry point into the firm was a two-month summer internship, which he converted into a pre-placement offer. In fact, it was the only company he interviewed for this season, Times of India reported. "This was the first and only interview. When my mentor told me they were extending an offer, I was thrilled. My parents were just as excited," Varghese told TOI. Beyond headline numbers, overall placement metrics at IITH also showed a marked improvement. According to a hindu business line report, average annual compensation rose by about 75% compared to last year, increasing from Rs 20.8 lakh in 2024 to Rs 36.2 lakh in 2025. In the first phase of placements, which concluded in december, students secured 24 international offers. Among postgraduate students, 196 of the 650 registered candidates have been placed so far, with an average package of Rs 22 lakh. At the undergraduate level, around 62 per cent of the 487 registered students received job offers. The contrast over three years is stark. The highest package stood at Rs 90 lakh in 2023-24, dropped to Rs 66 lakh the following year and then surged to Rs 2.5 crore in 2025-26. While Optiver topped the list of international offers, databricks made the highest domestic offer at Rs 1.58 crore. Other prominent recruiters included uber, oracle, D. E. Shaw and accenture, HBL reported.