Mavensecuritiesholdingltd
Trading Systems Engineer - Options Market Making
Chicago
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- Seniority
- Mid level
- Country
- US
- Work mode
- On-site / unstated
- First seen by hirly
- 15 Sept 2026
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the posting
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.
In this role you will be helping to improve performance and stability across our trading platforms at Maven, a critical role to ensure our day to day trading activities are optimised and uninterrupted. Your quest as guardian of the trading systems will involve monitoring, tweaking and preventing incidents from happening and if unsuccessful resolve them. You’ll also be the custodian of future releases, ensuring releases have a positive impact to trading by implementing tools to further automate our processes.
A Trading Systems Engineer is responsible to warrant the performance and availability of our Trading systems.
WHAT YOU ARE
Pragmatic with a drive for quality and a sense of humour
Interest in performance tuning and optimisation
Good with Python
Previous experience in a CI/CD environment and understand how to get the best out of 3rd party tools such as Ansible, Octopus, TeamCity, Volt, Jira
Linux system admin
Experience using AI-powered tools to improve efficiency and workflows.
WHAT WE OFFER
A great engineering environment whereby technology is key to our success.
The upside of start-up without the associated risks.
Great friendly, informal and highly rewarding culture.
Informal dress code, loads of free food and social events.
Fast growing global firm with plenty of opportunity where you will have significant impact.
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