C++ Developer - Ultra Low Latency Execution Systems - Options Market Making

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 and other developers to help us expand system connectivity to new markets, optimise order execution algorithms and improve our trading strategies. In this role, the work you will do will have a direct, regular and highly visible impact on the firm's success.,

• 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
  
  Excellent C++(11/14/17/20/23)


• Template programming


• Ultra low latency design


• 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 in the other programming languages: Python, JavaScript


• 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