Trading Systems Engineer - Options Market Making

Maven Securities; Chicago (IL); Vor Ort; USD 80.000 - 110.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Free food

Social events

Informal dress code

Zusammenfassung

Maven Securities, based in Chicago, is seeking a Trading Systems Engineer to ensure optimal performance and availability of trading systems. You will be responsible for monitoring system performance, preventing incidents, and managing future releases.

If you're pragmatic, driven by quality, and skilled in Python and CI/CD environments, this role offers you the chance to contribute significantly within a friendly culture. The firm offers an engaging environment with opportunities for growth and social events.

Qualifikationen

• Pragmatic with a drive for quality and a sense of humour.
• Interest in performance tuning and optimisation.
• Good understanding of CI/CD environments.

Aufgaben

• Monitor and tweak trading systems for performance and stability.
• Prevent and resolve incidents in trading activities.
• Implement tools to automate trading processes.

Kenntnisse

Performance tuning and optimization

Good with Python

Experience in CI/CD

Linux system admin

Tools

Ansible

Octopus

TeamCity

Volt

Jira

Jobbeschreibung

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.