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C++ Developer - Options Market Making

MavenAmsterdam, Netherlands · Posted Jan 7, 2025
Full-timeEst. 90,000 EUR
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Description

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.

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
  • Experience using AI-powered tools to improve efficiency and workflows.

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
  • 25 days’ annual leave
  • Informal dress code
  • Private healthcare and life assurance
  • Monthly company events

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