Ready to kickstart your career in one of the world’s leading tech-driven trading firms? Optiver’s FutureFocus applications are now open.

Join FutureFocus, our immersive three-day program for pre-penultimate students in Australia and New Zealand.

Held in Sydney, on 25-27 September 2024, the program is designed to ignite your potential as a future trader, researcher or developer. Dive into the fundamentals of trading, gain unique insights into Optiver’s cutting-edge trading systems and build the key skills that our traders, researchers and developers use every day.

Plus, if you’ve excelled in the program, you could be fast-tracked in the application process for our 2025/26 Summer Internship Program in Sydney.

Why join FutureFocus?

As part of the three-day program, you’ll experience Optiver’s incredible culture and benefits (such as daily breakfast, lunch and coffee), as well as have the opportunity to:

• Kickstart your career in trading, research or tech: Learn the fundamentals of trading theory and discover how to build trading strategies for deployment in a virtual market.
• Gain hands-on experience: Immerse in Optiver’s dynamic trading floor and see the firm’s cutting-edge systems in action to understand how Optiver remains at the forefront of the global financial markets.
• Learn from industry experts: Receive mentorship and support from Optiver’s in-house education team and senior traders or developers, who are committed to ensuring you have the guidance and support needed to succeed.
• Build valuable connections: Connect with recent graduates as well as your cohort of future traders, researchers and developers.