C# Developer - Trading & Pricing Applications - US Options Market Making

Posted:
9/18/2024, 1:18:21 AM

Location(s):
Illinois, United States ⋅ Chicago, Illinois, United States

Experience Level(s):
Junior ⋅ Mid Level ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Software Engineering

Pay:
$117/hr or $243,360 total comp

ABOUT THE COMPANY:

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.

Maven is looking for outstanding C# software developers with the engineering, analytical and quant skills to help drive our continuing success to the next level. You will have:

  • Excellent C# combined with strong knowledge of our business area
  • Experience with at least one database (we use various relational, no-sql and time-series databases as appropriate)
  • 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

YOUR ROLE

Sitting on our trading floor, you will work alongside traders and developers to help us optimise our pricing libraries, to improve our trading tools, to extend our systematic trading strategies and to build cutting edge web-based user interfaces.

  • Full lifecycle development of software for market making.
  • Collaborate with the SRE's and the IT Infrastructure Team to ensure software can be supported and runs smoothly in production. Assist them with first-line support when necessary.
  • Participate in software engineering processes such as peer application design, code review and daily stand-up meetings
  • Customisation and testing systems and developing new functionality needed by US based traders
  • Liaising with London and Hong Kong development teams to facilitate smooth working process between offices

WHAT WE OFFER

  • Competitive compensation 
  • Annual discretionary bonus 
  • 25 days’ annual leave
  • Informal dress code