C++ Developer - Options Market Making

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Maven Securities is hiring a C++ Developer for Options Market Making in London, onsite. You’ll work on the trading floor with traders and quants to expand market connectivity, optimize order execution, and build automated pricing and infrastructure to grow the options market making business. Core requirements are excellent C++ (11/14/17/20/23), template programming, ultra low latency design, performance tuning, and strong numerical skills, plus the ability to solve new problems quickly and communicate clearly. Knowledge of finance is helpful but not essential. To maximize your chances, tailor your CV to showcase low latency systems, exchange connectivity, and production impact with concrete metrics, demonstrate collaboration with cross functional teams, and be ready to discuss system design and testing.

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, 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:

• 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, C# or 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

If you don’t meet every requirement listed, we still encourage you to apply. We value potential and are excited to see what you can bring to the role.

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 
• Group Pension plan 
• Annual discretionary bonus 
• Fully catered breakfast, lunch and snacks
• 25 days’ annual leave
• Informal dress code 
• Private healthcare and life assurance
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Monthly company events
• Private Gym