Senior Technical Program Manager - Trading & Core Software

As a Senior Technical Program Manager – Trading & Core Software, you’ll drive programs that expand Optiver’s trading footprint and strengthen the core systems that power our global platform.

This role sits at the intersection of engineering, trading, and strategy, leading initiatives that bring new markets, asset classes, and products online - while scaling the foundational software that manages instruments, trades, positions, and risk.

You’ll work closely with high-performing engineering and trading teams to turn strategy into delivery, ensuring Optiver’s trading systems evolve with speed, reliability, and precision.

What you’ll do

In Optiver’s fast-paced environment, you will work alongside engineers and leaders to deliver multiple projects that support the firm’s strategic growth and take Optiver to the next level.

As a Senior Technical Program Manager, your key responsibilities include:

• Lead multi-disciplinary programs that enable Optiver’s trading expansion into new markets, asset classes, and products
• Oversee development of the firm’s core trading software - including instruments, trades, positions, and control systems
• Partner with senior engineering and trading leadership to define scope, align priorities, and execute high-impact initiatives
• Enhance delivery processes, feedback loops, and reporting to improve cross-team visibility and accountability
• Drive continuous improvement and operational excellence across trading and software development teams

What you’ll get

• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries
• Highly competitive compensation package including performance-based bonus structure
• 401(k) match up to 50%
• Comprehensive health, mental, dental, vision, disability, and life coverage
• 25 paid vacation days alongside market holidays
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and snacks, regular social events, clubs, sporting leagues and more

Who you are

• Highly self-motivated and thrive in environments with minimal oversight. You take full ownership, show initiative, manage your own priorities effectively and keep momentum even when direction isn’t fully defined
• Hold a degree in computer science, engineering, or a related STEM field
• Have 5+ years of experience in software engineering or technical program management within a high-performance technology environment
• Proven success managing complex, cross-functional software programs from design to rollout
• Technically fluent - comfortable engaging in architecture and systems design discussions
• Pragmatic and outcome-oriented, with strong analytical and communication skills
• Motivated by impact and intrigued by the intersection of trading, technology, and strategy.

Who we are

At Optiver, our mission is to improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and stabilising the market no matter the conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement, we prioritise safeguarding the health and efficiency of the markets for all participants. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a respected partner on 100+ exchanges across the globe.

Our differences are our edge. Optiver does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, or other legally protected characteristics.