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 we are now one of the largest derivative trading groups on the Australian, Asian and European exchanges with a growing presence in the USA. We specialise 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.