C++ Developer - Options Market Making

Maven Securities; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Annual discretionary bonus

25 days’ annual leave

Informal dress code

Private healthcare and life assurance

Monthly company events

Job summary

Maven Securities is a market-leading trading firm expanding its software stack to support discretionary and systematic strategies. You will work on the trading floor with traders, researchers and developers to enhance market connectivity and execution.

Join a team delivering automated pricing systems and infrastructure for a growing options market making business, with immediate impact on trading revenue and a focus on quality and rapid delivery.

Qualifications

• Template programming experience is expected.
• Strong numerical abilities are required.
• Proven ability to solve unfamiliar problems quickly and creatively.
• Meticulous and detail-oriented approach to work.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Interest in trading and finance is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Develop low-latency market connectivity components and trading infrastructure.
• Contribute to the end-to-end software development lifecycle for market making.

Skills

Template programming

Performance tuning

Numerical skills

Creative problem solving

Attention to detail

Written and verbal communication

Interest in trading/finance

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.

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.

The skills you will have:

• 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

Things we would like to see but are 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
• Experience using AI-powered tools to improve efficiency and workflows.

What you will be doing with us:

• 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.

WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU

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

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. Completion of the questionnaire will not form any part of Maven’s decision-making process and candidates can withdraw their consent at any time . 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. completion of the questionnaire will not form any part of Maven’s decision-making process. Maven will not have information on whether or not a particular candidate completed the questionnaire.