Trading Systems Engineer - Options Market Making

Mavensecuritiesholdingltd; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Friendly and informal culture

Free food and social events

Growth opportunities in a global firm

Job summary

Mavensecuritiesholdingltd in Chicago is seeking a Trading Systems Engineer to enhance the performance and stability of our trading platforms. This critical role involves monitoring and optimizing trading systems to ensure uninterrupted operations.

The ideal candidate should have expertise in performance tuning, Python programming, and experience in CI/CD environments. The role offers a dynamic and rewarding engineering culture with opportunities for significant impact within a fast-growing firm.

Qualifications

• Interest in performance tuning and optimization.
• Good with Python programming language.
• Experience in a CI/CD environment.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and enhance the stability of trading systems.
• Prevent incidents and resolve issues promptly.
• Ensure that system releases positively impact trading.

Skills

Performance tuning and optimization

Python

CI/CD environments

Linux system administration

Third-party tools

Tools

Ansible

Octopus

TeamCity

Volt

Jira

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

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.