What you’ll do As a Trader (Market Maker) you will provide the market with prices with which they can trade. The bid price is the price at which the market maker would buy, and the ask price is the price at which the market maker would sell. Market makers are happy to get hit on either side of their quote. You will use Optiver’s own software to adjust prices, monitor positions and make trades. Outside of market hours, you will develop tools and conduct analysis with the goal of assisting both your own and the team’s trading. What you’ll learn You will receive 3-12 months’ intensive and robust training in our Sydney office before relocating to Shanghai. Our training program includes: • Five weeks of small group Options and Arbitrage theory classes run by our Head of Education • Simulated trading exercises using real world scenarios • On-the-job training and exposure across a range of trading desks with mentoring by Senior Traders • Opportunities to attend a variety of soft skill training sessions as part of continuous trader development • Dedicated systems training on our internally developed trading systems Within three months you’ll be trading live in the market - with real money and real risk. You'll be responsible for your own positions and contributing to the business Who you are • You are a penultimate/ final-year/ Honours student or a recent graduate (in the past 2 years). • You come from a quantitative degree background with Distinction average in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Electrical/Mechanical/Mechatronic Engineering. • You speak / write / read fluent English & Mandarin What you’re like You’re a conceptual thinker – you pick up new concepts easily and have no issues applying them to new situations. You thrive on solving problems and love thinking up brilliant ideas. You’ve got a flair for numbers and jump on any chance to use these skills. You are results driven to excel in this fast paced environment, and have the ability to think on your feet and make quick decisions. You are self-motivated and hungry for growth. You have a good sense of humour, nerves of steel and a thirst for success. If you really want to stand out from the crowd skills in Excel, VBA or Python will help you do that! But don’t worry if you haven’t developed these skills yet as we will provide training on the job. Eligibility All applicants must hold Chinese full working and residence rights. How to apply Log on to ww***com[点击查看] click on Job Opportunities. Submit your application including a cover letter, resume and a copy of your academic transcript.
Optiver is a trading firm with a difference. We are a market-maker who takes our people and our technology seriously. Our Trading and IT teams work together as the right and left hand of the business and it is this level of integration that keeps our Traders at the top of their game. We are proud of the state-of-the-art systems we have built, and consistently strive to improve every day. Our speed to the market is crucial to our success and this is why we concentrate on sourcing the most advanced software, the fastest applications and up to date technology. We have outstanding developers and engineers in our family who work across different areas within the business, from developing our automated trading platforms or analysing ways to optimise our systems, to deploying and managing new software and monitoring performance.
We are steeped in heritage having been founded in Europe in 1986, where we focused on equity options on the European Options Exchange. We have grown from strength to strength thanks to our great people, and brilliant minds, and are now one of the largest derivative trading groups on the Australian, Asian and European exchanges with a growing presence in the USA. We specialize dealing mainly in derivatives, shares and bonds. As we are a propriety trading firm, we are the principal investor in our business. What this means is that we have no clients and as a result we can afford to continually invest in our own growth. We have offices in Amsterdam, Chicago, Hong Kong, Sydney, Taipei and Shanghai. We have had a physical presence in Shanghai since early 2013 with a small “start-up” team. Our main focus in China is still on the proprietary financial derivatives trading business. Our company and the business we undertake are very unique in the financial sector in China at the moment.