Trading Systems Engineer - Options Market Making

Full Time

ChicagoPosted 6 weeks ago

Role Overview

Mavensecuritiesholdingltd is hiring a Trading Systems Engineer - Options Market Making. This is a full-time role in Chicago. Part of Mavensecuritiesholdingltd's Trading hiring. Full responsibilities, required qualifications, and the apply link are listed in the description below.

Salary Context

Salary is not disclosed in this posting. Market median for Trading roles is $150k-$200k (based on 81 comparable listings). Many employers share specifics during the interview process or after an initial screen.

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Job 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.

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

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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Frequently Asked Questions

How do I apply for the Trading Systems Engineer - Options Market Making position at Mavensecuritiesholdingltd?

Use the Apply button above to submit your application directly to Mavensecuritiesholdingltd. Most applications take less than 5 minutes if your resume and contact details are ready, and you'll be routed to the employer's official application system to finish.

Where is the Trading Systems Engineer - Options Market Making position at Mavensecuritiesholdingltd located?

This position is based in Chicago. Mavensecuritiesholdingltd has not indicated remote or hybrid options for this role, so candidates should plan for on-site work.

What does a Trading Systems Engineer - Options Market Making at Mavensecuritiesholdingltd earn?

Mavensecuritiesholdingltd has not disclosed a salary range in this posting. Many employers share specifics later in the interview process; you can also ask during a recruiter screen if compensation transparency is important to you.

When was the Trading Systems Engineer - Options Market Making role at Mavensecuritiesholdingltd posted?

This role was posted on May 27, 2026 (43 days ago). It's still listed as actively hiring; we re-confirm openings against the source system multiple times per day and remove closed roles.