# Software engineering at a proprietary trading company: Optiver

DevFeed: [Software engineering at a proprietary trading company: Optiver](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/software-engineering-at-a-proprietary-trading-company-optiver-18175.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/optiver>)

Author: Gergely Orosz

Published: 2026-08-11T16:17:39Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [The Pragmatic Engineer](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-pragmatic-engineer.md>)

Topics: [Software Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software-engineering.md>), [Latency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/latency.md>), [AI Models](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-models.md>), [Hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hardware.md>)

Tags: [ai-models](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-models.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hardware.md>), [latency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/latency.md>), [software-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-engineering.md>)

## AI overview

The article examines software engineering at Optiver, including a shift from latency-focused work toward building better AI models and ownership of the stack from applications through custom hardware.

## Source excerpt

A shift from a focus on latency to building better AI models, owning the full stack from applications to building custom hardware, very different incentives to most tech companies in play, and more