Python Developer - Data & Analytics Team - Market Making

Overview

Maven is a market-leading proprietary trading firm allocating internal capital across discretionary, systematic, and market-making strategies. Our collective expertise spans traders, engineers, and technologists, unified by an unwavering dedication to enhance our efficiency as a premier liquidity provider for globally listed derivatives. Our engineering teams design and build groundbreaking execution, pricing, and data systems that elevate and improve how financial markets operate.

• You will work alongside traders, quant researchers and other developers to help us design and build reliable, timely and accurate data and analytics for our trading and research teams.
• Our data pipelines handle terabytes of exchange traffic, performing numerous transformations in real-time.
• We perform analysis ranging from nanosecond-level investigations on low-latency trading systems to research on pricing algorithms and trading strategies.

• Excellent Python skills, with significant experience designing, developing, testing, and deploying complex and robust production systems
• Solid experience with SQL and modern database technologies
• Very strong business communication skills and the ability to present information clearly and concisely
• Enthusiasm to rapidly learn new technologies and skills
• An efficient and diligent approach with a strong attention to detail
• The ability to solve new and unfamiliar problems quickly and creatively
• An interest in trading and finance

• Handling large data sets and time series data
• Data engineering best practices for both batch and streaming data pipelines
• Knowledge of data serialization formats, messaging middleware, data lakehouse technologies etc
• Containerisation and orchestration techniques (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Modern C++ programming
• Front end development with React and Typescript
• Knowledge of financial markets & securities, especially equities and options

• Competitive compensation
• Annual discretionary bonus
• 25 days’ annual leave
• Informal dress code
• Private healthcare
• Monthly company events
• Private Gym