C++ Developer - Options Market Making (CHI)
About The Position
Maven is a market-leading proprietary trading firm deploying its own capital across discretionary, systematic, and market-making strategies. Backed by deep expertise in trading, technology, and research, we are relentlessly focused on improving liquidity across global listed derivatives. Through advanced execution and pricing technologies, we improve how financial markets operate. Working on our trading floor, you will work alongside traders, quant researchers and other developers to help us expand system connectivity to new markets, optimise order execution algorithms, improve our trading strategies and build new automated pricing systems and infrastructure to support the expansion of our options market making business. The work you do will have a direct, regular and highly visible impact on the firm's success.
Requirements
- Excellent C++ (11/14/17/20/23)
- Template programming
- Ultra low latency design
- Performance tuning and analysis
- Good numerical skills
- The ability to solve new and unfamiliar problems quickly and creatively
- An efficient and diligent approach with a strong attention to detail
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- An Interest in trading and finance
Nice To Haves
- Knowledge of financial markets & securities (particularly futures and options)
- Experience in the other programming languages: Python, C# or JavaScript
- Experience with NoSQL and time-series databases
- Knowledge of multiple derivative exchange platforms
- Network communication protocols UDP and TCP
- Network acceleration using proprietary drivers and kernel bypass
- Understanding of and optimisation for modern Intel architecture
- Experience using AI-powered tools to improve efficiency and workflows.
Responsibilities
- Full lifecycle of software development for market making, working alongside traders and developers in other teams, such as FPGA, data analytics and UI developers
- Developing low latency exchange connectivity components for new markets
- Expand system connectivity to new markets
- Optimise order execution algorithms
- Improve our trading strategies
- Build new automated pricing systems and infrastructure to support the expansion of our options market making business
Benefits
- medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their dependents
- employer paid short term and long term disability and life insurance
- paid parental leave
- retirement plans with an employer match
- an annual learning and development stipend for all employees
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
