FPGA Engineer

WHO WE ARE

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 we are a leading liquidity provider, with close to 2,000 employees in offices around the world, united in our 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 we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets. We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, at our own risk, trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign currencies.

In Asia Pacific, Optiver was one of the first global market makers to establish a presence in the region, with the incorporation our Sydney office in 1996. Since then, we have expanded our footprint by establishing offices in Taipei (2005), Hong Kong (2007), Shanghai (2012) and Singapore (2021). The business in Mumbai is newly established and deemed to be an integral part of the APAC strategy, with an anticipation of significant growth over the coming years.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

As a senior FPGA developer you'll hit the ground running as one of the founding members of our Mumbai FPGA & low latency development team, working on Optiver's execution platforms. You'll be focused on achieving best-in-market trade execution on the highly competitive Indian exchanges: NSE, BSE and MCX. But you won't be alone - you'll be backed by a strong collaboration with established FPGA & low latency development teams in Sydney and Shanghai plus gain exposure to the challenges in execution in Optiver's global businesses including in the USA and Europe. You'll have a strong relationship with internal stakeholders including the trading, risk, compliance, and research teams who will all be collocated with you in the Mumbai office.

Our execution platforms are responsible for placing orders from auto-trading systems with as low a latency as possible, implementing risk boundary checks, order management and exchange connectivity. You'll get to:

• Develop solutions for our business challenges by implementing key features in our execution applications, through to testing, deployment and monitoring.
• Experience the excitement of our fast-paced development cycle – owning a tight feedback loop, testing and shipping your code to production within days.
• Collaborate with other software developers and contribute to the design and implementation of our high performance software applications.
• Flex your understanding of FPGA fundamentals by shaving out levels of logic to achieve a zero latency design.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Implement and build solutions to enable our low latency trading and help Optiver achieve number 1 status in Indian markets.
• Work with collaborators in Sydney and Shanghai to shape our APAC-wide execution platform to suit Indian markets' needs.
• Liaise with stakeholders across the company to build the best solutions for Optiver.
• Manage deployments to reduce risk and provide production support where required.
• Help ensure quality is maintained throughout our systems, including via code reviews.
• Contribute to our never-ending goal of continuous improvement, such as by providing feedback on where our systems and controls can be improved.
• Provide advice and guidance to junior developers.

WHO YOU ARE

To be successful for this role, you'll need to be someone with:

• 5+ years’ experience in FPGA development.
• Proficient in one or more of the following: VHDL, Verilog, System Verilog.
• Experience leading projects as a technical leader. 
• Basic skills in either C++, C, or Python. 
• Experience working with Linux.
• Understanding of computer networks and protocols (TCP, IP, UDP).

WHAT YOU'LL GET

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.

We encourage applications from candidates from any and all backgrounds, and we welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process to ensure that you can best demonstrate your abilities. Please let us know if you would like to request any reasonable adjustments by contacting the Recruitment team via careers@optiver.com.au.