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.

The Maven Infrastructure team is a set of broad-minded technologists with diverse backgrounds, who focus on continuously improving the end-to-end performance, resiliency, scalability, visibility, and supportability of Maven's computing systems.

As a Network Engineer within our Infrastructure team, you will build a deep understanding of the data flows of Maven's trading systems, building network infrastructure and working collaboratively to optimize the performance of those systems. Your primary focus will be to work with developers, traders, and other infrastructure engineers to optimize our US network and datacenter infrastructure, but you’ll work closely with our global team of engineers to ensure we have a strong global network.

 What you will be doing: 

• Design, configure, and support our global network infrastructure, collaborating across teams to optimize for low latency trading applications.
• Build, support, and troubleshoot a hybrid wireless and wired high performance network environment
• Take an automated, data driven approach to diagnosing and solving complex network infrastructure issues such as micro-bursting, jitter and queuing.
• Proactively identify enhancements to existing configurations, technologies and procedures to improve performance
• Own and project manage global network initiatives from requirements gathering, design review, implementation, deployment and documentation
• Contribute to the documentation of network processes, systems, and configurations
• Collaborate with systems teams to build and manage manage datacenter infrastructure
• Maintain network security infrastructure to ensure perimeter protection and that internal environments remain appropriately separated

What we’re looking for: 

• Previous experience working on complex, high performance networks at a global scale
• Demonstrable experience implementing complex projects from initiation through production handover
• Experience with point to point low latency wireless networks and knowledge of RF principles
• Passionate about troubleshooting and getting to the root cause of incidents
• Be experienced with net-ops tools for configuration management, and network monitoring and analysis
• Experience with Cisco, Arista, and/or Juniper hardware and the associated network operating systems
•  Experience working with high performance networking fabrics or matrix switches
• Experience with optical tap and packet capture infrastructure
• Deep knowledge of multicast networking and configuration
• Strong working knowledge of Linux
• Scripting skills in python to automate tasks and perform analysis
• CCIE level knowledge and experience
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; experience collaborating in global teams

What we offer:

• Amazing opportunity to be a key member of a highly ambitious trading firm. 
• A decentralised global engineering environment
• Great friendly, informal and highly rewarding culture
• Fast growing global firm with plenty of opportunity where you will have significant impact

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.

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

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.

Quant Dev - Systematic Equities Trading

What we do:

Maven’s Systematic Equities team deploys research-driven strategies across global equity markets, powered by some of the most advanced technology available. Our approach to trading is scientific and process-driven, with a strong emphasis on a flexible research environment, providing us with efficient means to rapidly develop, test, and deploy new ideas. We empower our team members and maximise their ability to succeed by offering an environment that is open, collaborative, and supportive. We value creativity and are aggressive to capitalise on opportunities.

The role:

We are looking for an experienced Python Engineer (Platform / ML) to join the mid-frequency-equities desk and help build, maintain, and support all aspects of the trading platform. The role is hands-on and production-facing: you will be expected to react quickly to urgent desk needs, while making pragmatic trade-offs between optimal architecture and fast, reliable delivery.

• Data ingestion and processing pipelines
• Orchestration of all processes involved in the trading platform
• Trading and research platform development and support
• ML model training and inference infrastructure
• Production support for live trading systems
• Monitoring and alerting improvements
• AI tooling integration

Requirements:

• Excellent Python skills, with significant experience designing, developing, testing, and deploying complex and robust production systems
• Familiarity with Linux systems; comfortable debugging distributed/production issues
• Understanding of algorithm design and complexity
• Ability to prioritise effectively in a fast-paced environment whilst keeping longer-term objectives in mind
• Strong ownership mindset: incident handling, end-to-end problem solving, and pragmatic decision making under time pressure
• An interest in trading and finance; experience with systematic trading platforms/frameworks (incl. stat-arb environments) is a strong plus

Ideal experience would include:

• Engineering systems for live trading platforms or similarly demanding real-time environments
• Airflow, Argo, Dagster or equivalent
• Observability/monitoring stacks, dashboards and alert design
• ML infra, high-performance and GPU computing, MLOps 
• Docker, Kubernetes
• CI/CD

Why you should apply:

• A flexible environment where technology is an absolute key to our success
• Opportunity to be highly involved in the decisions that shape every aspect of how we operate
• Friendly, informal and collaborative environment where you’re empowered and supported to achieve your ambitions, learn and develop
• Competitive compensation with substantial impact-based upside

We are a small and nimble team that makes extensive use of CI/CD, AI tooling, and peer code review to ensure quality and maintainability while keeping time-to-market short. You will be able to see the impact of your work immediately and will be in a unique position to directly contribute to trading revenue. 

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.

You will work alongside traders, quant researchers and other developers to help us design and build reliable, timely and accurate data and analytics to our trading and research teams. Our data pipelines handle terabytes of exchange traffic, performing numerous transformations in real-time. We perform analysis ranging from nanosecond-level investigations on low-latency trading systems to research on pricing algorithms and trading strategies.

The Skills you will have 

• Excellent Python skills, with significant experience designing, developing, testing, and deploying complex and robust production systems
• Solid experience with SQL and modern database technologies
• Very strong business communication skills and the ability to present information clearly and concisely
• Enthusiasm to rapidly learn new technologies and skills
• An efficient and diligent approach with a strong attention to detail
• The ability to solve new and unfamiliar problems quickly and creatively
• An interest in trading and finance

IDEAL EXPERIENCE WOULD INCLUDE

• Handling large data sets and time series data
• Data engineering best practices for both batch and streaming data pipelines
• Knowledge of data serialisation formats, messaging middleware, data lakehouse technologies etc
• Containerisation and orchestration techniques (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Modern C++ programming
• Front end development with React and Typescript
• Knowledge of financial markets & securities, especially equities and options

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 
• Fully catered breakfast, lunch and snacks. 
• 25 days’ annual leave
• Informal dress code 
• Private healthcare and life assurance
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Monthly company events
• Private Gym

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.

Maven has a culture that is relaxed and informal but highly rewarding of strong performance; We have offices in London, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, New York and Chicago. Our Infrastructure team is a set of broad-minded technologists, who focus on continuously improving the end-to-end resiliency, scalability, visibility and supportability of Maven's trading systems. 

The Team and the Role

The Linux Engineering team is responsible for the deployment, maintenance and stability of the Linux server estate at Maven. The Linux estate spans 10 datacentres between Europe and the US and supports  all trading applications. Our environment consists of both bare-metal deployments and containers supported in an expanding set of Kubernetes clusters all running on prem. The team sits in Chicago and London and covers the European and US market hours. 

We proactively monitor our infrastructure for faults and performance degradation, translate technical issues to our trading teams, design and test new hardware, kernels and operating systems, manage our centralised storage arrays that support our data pipelines, build and maintain databases and keep on top of updates in the Linux open source community. We use a lot of common open-source tooling to gather as much data from our platform as we can and we give ourselves time to properly dive into problems to make sure we have as clear a picture as possible. 

What are we looking for:

• Proven track record designing, building and supporting medium-sized Linux environments distributed around the globe with colleagues distributed geographically (RHEL and Debian)
• A drive for simplification, automation and self-service (ideally using python and ansible)
• Comfortable discussing filesystems, networking, kernel internals
• A desire to share and demonstrate work, techniques and tools to a broad audience
• Exposure to containerisation/virtualisation techniques 
• Experience of running and supporting large distributed data storage platforms would be a bonus. Knowledge of NFS, S3, iscsi, TCP over NVME etc
• Pragmatism - experience communicating and coordinating change across physically and technically diverse teams
• Measures rather than guesses - makes evidence backed decision and prefers the scientific method

What we can offer you:

• Competitive compensation 
• Group Pension plan 
• Annual discretionary bonus 
• Fully catered breakfast, lunch and snacks. 
• 25 days’ annual leave
• Informal dress code 
• Private healthcare and life assurance
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Monthly company events
• Private Gym

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.

OVERVIEW

As a global firm with trading strategies that operate worldwide, we want to create and maintain a globally consistent platform, removing as much work as possible from our trading and development teams when building, developing and running their applications. We are looking for an experienced technical operations specialist, DevOps engineer, or Platform Engineer to join a small existing team and help shape this vision.

The individual will have operational responsibility for several production trading and research environments and will need to understand how our systems work throughout the trading lifecycle, from the front to the back office. The role will require close collaboration with traders, developers, quant researchers, data engineers, and infrastructure teams to ensure our production systems are well-understood and properly configured. The individual will also be expected to advocate for operational efficiency and continuous improvement across all deployment aspects, as well as troubleshooting, monitoring, automation, and resiliency.

We are just at the beginning of an exciting transformation project to consolidate and standardise how we run and research our applications inside Maven, and the individual will have the opportunity to shape the future of this platform

The role is based in London, but the team will be globally distributed. Communication skills, a pragmatic approach to problem-solving under time pressure, and a positive mindset are essential for success in this role. Candidates will likely have at least 2+ years of experience in a similar position. In particular, we are looking for:

• a highly motivated individual with creative problem-solving skills;
• a self-starter attitude and proactive problem ownership mindset;
• Ability to prioritise effectively whilst keeping longer-term objectives in mind;

This is an opportunity for someone who wants to have a meaningful impact within Maven to help define and shape a role that uniquely interfaces with all other functions within the firm.

MUST HAVE 

• Building systems with a constant focus on reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
• Designing and programming in a variety of languages and technologies. 
• Working on legacy code as well as green field development.
• Initiative driving projects to completion.
• Learning and promoting new technologies with a focus on best practices.
• Experience building and automating various operations tasks using scripting languages such as Python, including configuration checks, system health monitoring, alerting, reliability report generation, etc.
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to steep learning curves and navigate large volumes of information

NICE TO HAVE 

• Multiple years of server-side development.
• Exposure to Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, Kafka, Prometheus, and other modern deployment tooling
• Experience working closely with both traders and automated strategies in a similar front-office environment to identify and implement operational improvements
• Knowledge of standard IT and software engineering tooling such as git, jira, TeamCity, confluence, ansible, etc.
• Familiarity with SQL, HTTP messaging, and network protocols
• Experience managing operational risk in a trading environment

WHY SHOULD YOU APPLY?

• An excellent engineering environment where technology is key to our success
• Flexible work-from-home options 1 day a week
• Highly competitive compensation plus annual discretionary bonus
• Working with a team of high-performing individuals, we all push each other forward
• Informal dress code and excellent work/life balance
• A fast-growing global firm with plenty of opportunities where you will have a significant impact

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.

Overview:

Where technology meets trading, the Maven FPGA team is pushing the bleeding edge of hardware and proprietary designs to maintain and gain advantage in an increasingly competitive environment. With operations in London, New York, Hong Kong and Chicago, we build technology in support of global trading operations across multiple exchanges, asset classes, and trading strategies. Our teams are small and nimble, with a firm commitment to growth, and a strategic view of investment in people, tools, and the necessary platforms to extend our leadership.

The Role:

Within our team, you will work with traders and technologists to seek and exploit opportunities to gain competitive advantage through FPGA systems. By means of reduced latencies, higher throughput, or increased robustness, you will enable the company to increase the efficiency of existing strategies and open up entirely new trading opportunities previously inaccessible. With a number of greenfield projects in scope, candidates who are proactive and self-driven can grow into leadership roles for the firm’s future. Whilst financial experience is a plus, your engineering talents, problem solving abilities, and eagerness to take on new challenges are of significantly higher importance to us.

The skills you will have:

• SystemVerilog
• Source control management
• 5+ years FPGA experience
• Automated verification
• HLS or other DSP flow experience for FPGA
• Comfortable attacking new and unfamiliar problems
• Interest in trading

Things we would like to see but are not essential:

• Python, TCL
• Low latency design
• ASIC
• Network and packet processing
• Financial market data
• Trading systems
• Software development

WHAT WE OFFER

• Competitive compensation 
• Group Pension plan 
• Annual discretionary bonus 
• Fully catered breakfast, lunch and snacks. 
• 25 days’ annual leave
• Informal dress code 
• Private healthcare and life assurance
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Monthly company events
• Private Gym

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

If you don’t meet every requirement listed, we still encourage you to apply. We value potential and are excited to see what you can bring to the role.

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 
• Fully catered breakfast, lunch and snacks
• 25 days’ annual leave
• Informal dress code 
• Private healthcare and life assurance
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Monthly company events
• Private Gym

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

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

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

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.

Our Benefits

At Maven our goal is to create an environment that empowers and motivates our employees to maximize their potential. Our comprehensive benefits package is designed to optimize performance, reward our employees, and allow them time to pursue their passions.

Benefits at Maven include medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their dependents, employer paid short term and long term disability and life insurance, as well as paid parental leave. Maven also offers retirement plans with an employer match and an annual learning and development stipend for all employees.

Compensation 

Salary Range: $150000 - $200000, plus a discretionary bonus.