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Tech Lead Quoting
Chicago
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 continues to scale its operations while preserving the dynamic energy and innovative culture of a start-up, but without the associated risks.
The Role:
- Manage the Quoting Tech team of professional engineers including C++ Developers & C# Developers responsible for developing & supporting Maven’s Options Market Making applications.
- Ensure the Quoting Tech team keeps the production environment stable & adds features to the applications within rapid turnarounds & tight timelines.
- Oversee the development of Maven’s Options Market Making applications.
- Prioritize & schedule the work of direct reports.
- Provide guidance to team members, identify areas of improvement & provide feedback to ensure continuous development.
- Lead the team direction by initiating & implementing changes and improvements.
- Ensure that the team is properly sourced & trained and that effective promotion and retention programs are implemented.
- Manage the team’s resources including technology & training needs.
- Oversee the design, development, & deployment of new trading applications produced by the team.
- Write low-latency software, using C++ & Python for analysis.
- Work with low latency coding & apply knowledge of quoting within Options Market Making & derivatives trading & quoting algorithms.
- Requires Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field of study, plus five (5) years of experience with IT management; Python; C++; low latency coding; quoting within Options Market Making; derivatives trading and quoting algorithms; and/or, Options Market Making.
Salary: $200,000-245,000 per annum.
Maven Securities US Limited
WHAT WE OFFER:
- Amazing opportunity to be a key member of a highly committed employee-owned trading firm.
- The upside of start-up without the associated risks.
- Great friendly, informal and highly rewarding culture.
- Informal dress code.
- Fast growing global firm with plenty of opportunity where you will have significant impact.
- Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance coverage for employees and their dependents. 401k with employer match. Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, and Life Insurance. Annual learning and development stipend.
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