Positional Options Trader

Optiver

Sydney, New South Wales💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-07 → 2026-09-24

Core

Senior trader executing options strategies across Asian equity and index markets to generate alpha and manage risk.

Role type

Senior Positional Options Trader

Builds

Proprietary trading positions in equity and index options

Domain

Financial Markets / Quantitative Trading

Deliverable

client delivery

Required skills

Equity/Index options trading, quantitative analysis, risk management, market microstructure understanding, trading under pressure

Preferred skills

Python/R coding, multi-asset class experience, mentoring junior traders, understanding of large market flows

Technologies

Python, R

Responsibilities

Trade options across Asian markets, analyze market opportunities and behavior, manage trading risk, collaborate with team on pricing and execution

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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About Optiver

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