Engineering Jobs at Optimal
Optimal has 2 open engineering roles.
About Optimal
Optimal Markets (Optimal Market Technologies) is a FINRA-registered broker-dealer that provides options trading and execution services. It operates an institutional alternative trading system (ATS) for options, designed to reduce market impact and provide access to liquidity, as well as execution services using algorithms, smart order routing, and API/FIX integration. Its platform serves agency and wholesale markets and uses a competition-for-order-flow model in which market makers compete for retail order flow based on execution quality. The company is focused on the US options market.
The open roles
- Senior Production Engineer: Chicago, USD 150k to 225k, Senior, posted 5 August 2026.
- Lead Sysadmin/SRE: New York City, USD 150k to 250k, Lead, posted 29 June 2026.
Also hiring at Optimal
Its roles are in Chicago, IL, US (2) and New York City, NY, US (1).
What engineering work involves at an early-stage startup
You own whole parts of the product rather than one service inside a large system. Expect to write the code, deploy it, and get paged when it breaks. Reviews are quick and the codebase is small, so a decision made on Tuesday can ship on Thursday.
Experience level
Open roles by the experience the posting asks for.