C++ Developer - Options Market Making

Maven; City Of London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A proprietary trading firm in London is seeking a Software Developer to enhance market making strategies and develop low latency connectivity components. The ideal candidate has strong programming and numerical skills, with a keen interest in trading and finance. You will collaborate with traders and engineers to deliver impactful software that drives trading efficiency. The firm offers competitive compensation and numerous perks.

Benefits

Competitive compensation

Annual discretionary bonus

Fully catered breakfasts, lunches and snacks

25 days' annual leave

Informal dress code

Private healthcare and life assurance

Monthly company events

Private gym

Qualifications

• Ability to solve unfamiliar problems quickly and creatively.
• Strong attention to detail and efficient approach.

Responsibilities

• Develop software for market making alongside traders and developers.
• Create low latency exchange connectivity components for new markets.

Skills

Template programming

Performance tuning and analysis

Good numerical skills

Problem-solving

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Interest in trading and finance

Job description

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. 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.

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

Qualifications

• 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

Desirable (not essential)

• Knowledge of financial markets & securities (particularly futures and options)
• 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

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

What you will be doing with us

• Developing the full lifecycle of software for market making, collaborating with traders and developers in other teams such as FPGA, data analytics and UI
• Developing low latency exchange connectivity components for new markets

We pride ourselves on delivering well-engineered software into production with immediate impact on trading revenue. We rely on automated testing and peer code review to ensure quality and maintainability while keeping time-to-market short.

What we can offer you

• Competitive compensation
• Annual discretionary bonus
• Fully catered breakfasts, lunches 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. Maven is an equal opportunity employer and this data will be used for opportunity monitoring purposes.

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