C++ Developer - Market Making

Maven, a proprietary trading firm formed in 2011, is all about trust, your impact, freedom, and team. We have an internal open-source approach to create a technology environment that is low bureaucracy and high engineering freedom, fostering close collaboration between Trading and Tech to ensure novel solutions have swift impact.

Maven has a culture that is relaxed and informal but highly rewarding of strong performance. There's no dress code, a hybrid working model, plenty of free food and regular social events. We have offices in London, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Sydney and New York and will be opening our Chicago office in early 2022.

Maven's code base is in C++ 20 and we have a modern stack throughout, making extensive use of template and meta programming, Python, FPGA and Julia.

Working from our new Chicago office, 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.

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.

The skills you will have:

• Excellent C++(11/14/17)
• 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 optimization for modern Intel architecture

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.
• Participate in software engineering processes such as peer review, project planning and daily stand-up meetings.