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Career Kickstarter: Technology, our five-day immersive program designed to accelerate your journey from university to a full-time tech career. Explore how technology drives our success in the global financial markets and gain hands-on experience designing the high-performance systems that keep us at the forefront of trading, where every nanosecond counts. Through a blend of interactive lectures, practical projects, and mentorship from our world-class education team, you’ll sharpen your problem-solving skills and learn how to think, and build, like a developer at Optiver. Plus, if you’ve excelled in the program, you could receive an offer for our 2027 Graduate Program.
Job Responsibility:
Discover options theory: Learn the fundamentals that underpin options trading, through engaging, interactive lectures
Enhance your coding capability: Put advanced software engineering concepts into practise through a series of tech workshops
Learn about low latency: Gain experience around how low latency designs are critical to trading success at Optiver
Build and test your own trading algorithm: Gain hands-on experience designing and testing your own trading algorithm
Gain expert mentorship: Learn directly from a dedicated team of educators, consisting of current and former traders and developers
Build your network: Enjoy connecting with developers, traders and quantitative researchers through curated events
Experience Optiver’s culture: Immerse in our incredible culture and enjoy our benefits, including daily breakfast, lunch, coffee, and more
Requirements:
Final year university students (graduating in 2026 or earlier)
All degree backgrounds are considered
An Australian or New Zealand Citizen, Australian Permanent Resident or able to provide evidence of full working rights
Studying (or studied) a Computer Science, Software/Electrical/Mechatronic Engineering or similarly technical degree
Problem solver who will enjoy building high-performing, low latency designs that critically impact trading success
Curious to learn and comfortable exploring complex technical ideas
Have a range of out-of-classroom projects or extra-curricular activities that demonstrates your passion in technology, particularly software development
Excited to work alongside the best developers and traders in the industry, with the humility to continually upskill and improve yourself
Knowledgeable about object-orientated design and development concepts (experience with C++, Java or Python is required for our technical assessment)
What we offer:
Travel and accommodation costs covered if you reside outside of Sydney