C++ Developer - Market Making

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. We leverage groundbreaking execution and pricing technologies to elevate and 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.

• Template programming
• 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

• Knowledge of financial markets & securities (particularly futures and options)
• Experience with No
  
  SQL 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

If you don’t meet every requirement listed, we still encourage you to apply. We value potential and are excited to see what you can bring to the role.

• 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

We pride ourselves on being able to rapidly deliver well-engineered software into production. You will be able to see the impact of your work immediately and will be in a unique position to have a direct impact on trading revenue. We make extensive use of automated testing and peer code review to ensure quality and maintainability while keeping time-to-market short.

• Competitive compensation
• Annual discretionary bonus
• Fully catered breakfast, lunch and snacks
• 25 days’ annual leave
• Informal dress code
• Private healthcare and life assurance
• Monthly company events
• Private Gym

Maven is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive culture for our employees. It is crucial for us to understand the demographics of our candidate pool to measure our recruitment practices. There is no requirement for any candidate to answer our demographic questions. For candidates who complete the questionnaire, their data will be anonymised and used only in the aggregate to inform our attraction strategy.

Maven is an equal opportunity employer and this data will be used for opportunity monitoring purposes.