Trading Systems Engineer - Options Market Making at Maven (Chicago, IL)
Maven· Chicago, IL·
Job description
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.
In this role you will be helping to improve performance and stability across our trading platforms at Maven, a critical role to ensure our day to day trading activities are optimised and uninterrupted. Your quest as guardian of the trading systems will involve monitoring, tweaking and preventing incidents from happening and if unsuccessful resolve them. You’ll also be the custodian of future releases, ensuring releases have a positive impact to trading by implementing tools to further automate our processes.
A Trading Systems Engineer is responsible to warrant the performance and availability of our Trading systems.
WHAT YOU ARE
- Pragmatic with a drive for quality and a sense of humour
- Interest in performance tuning and optimisation
- Good with Python
- Previous experience in a CI/CD environment and understand how to get the best out of 3rd party tools such as Ansible, Octopus, TeamCity, Volt, Jira
- Linux system admin
- Experience using AI-powered tools to improve efficiency and workflows.
WHAT WE OFFER
- A great engineering environment whereby technology is key to our success.
- The upside of start-up without the associated risks.
- Great friendly, informal and highly rewarding culture.
- Informal dress code, loads of free food and social events.
- Fast growing global firm with plenty of opportunity where you will have significant impact.
Why work at Maven
- High-Impact Environment: Work directly with internal capital on sophisticated trading strategies, with a flat structure that values autonomy and ownership.
- Technology-Driven Culture: A strong emphasis on engineering and technology as core to the business, offering challenging roles in C++, Python, FPGA, and platform engineering.
- Global Opportunities: With offices in London, New York, Chicago, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, and Monaco, there are opportunities for international mobility and exposure to global markets.
- Strong Compensation: Competitive compensation is implied by the firm's ability to attract talent from top-tier firms like Jane Street, Optiver, and Goldman Sachs linkedin.com.
- Values-Driven: The firm explicitly values integrity, humility, creativity, and discipline, aiming to balance bold ambition with a modest and supportive culture mavensecurities.com.
- Work Policy: Likely hybrid/office-based given the nature of trading (roles in Chicago, London, Amsterdam, New York, and Hong Kong are clearly location-specific).
- Employee Rating: 4.1/5.0 on LinkedIn (108 reviews), with high marks for Work-Life (3.9), Compensation (3.8), and Culture (3.5) linkedin.com.