Data Engineer

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Optiver is a global market maker founded in Amsterdam, with offices worldwide. We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, trading a wide range of products. We’re looking for a hands‑on Data Engineer to accelerate the way our traders and researchers generate alpha in commodity derivatives, including iron ore, electricity, petroleum and other commodities products. In this role you’ll design and build flexible, high‑performance data onboarding and research workflows that enable new datasets to be evaluated in days.

• Build and maintain robust ingestion pipelines for a wide range of external datasets (e.g. news, freight, weather, demand forecasts, surveys, regulatory).
• Develop lightweight, scalable schemas and storage patterns to support rapid data exploration.
• Work closely with traders and researchers to identify pain points and design tools that remove workflow friction.
• Create sandboxed pipelines for fast experimentation with new datasets, with a clear path to production if they prove valuable.
• Champion best practices in data lineage, reproducibility, and accessibility.

• Minimum 4 years of experience as a data engineer or in a similar role, ideally in a trading, hedge fund, or alternative data environment.
• Strong programming skills in Python and SQL, and deep familiarity with modern data tooling (e.g. Airflow, Spark, Databricks, etc.).
• A proven track record of building fast, flexible pipelines that empower researchers or trading teams to iterate quickly.
• A pragmatic mindset with the ability to balance speed and long‑term scalability.
• Strong communication skills and genuine curiosity about markets and how data drives trading outcomes.

• The chance to work alongside best‑in‑class professionals.
• Competitive remuneration, including an attractive bonus structure and additional leave entitlements.
• Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities.
• Gym membership plus weekly in‑house chair massages.
• Daily breakfast, lunch and snacks.

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion, and it is hardwired through every stage of our hiring process. 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.