Trading Systems Engineer - Options Market Making ((253) Maven Securities · Chicago, United Stat[...]

Tradermath; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 110.000 - 150.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Great engineering environment

Friendly culture

Informal dress code

Free food and social events

Impactful role

Zusammenfassung

Maven is a market-leading firm focusing on discretionary and systematic trading across global derivatives. This role is pivotal to keep our trading platforms performing at peak and available, guarding stability during busy market hours.

You will monitor, tune, and prevent incidents, and act as the custodian of upcoming releases, implementing automation tools to improve efficiency and reliability across trading systems.

Qualifikationen

• Proficiency in Python and scripting for automation.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment tooling.
• Hands-on Linux system administration and tuning.

Aufgaben

• Monitor and improve performance and stability of trading platforms.
• Tweak configurations and proactively prevent incidents.
• Resolve incidents when they occur and document lessons learned.
• Own future releases and ensure positive impact to trading systems.
• Develop automation tools to streamline processes.

Kenntnisse

Python

CI/CD

Linux 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.