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.

Maven Securities US Limited, Chicago, IL

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 ROLE:

• Monitor the risk exposures that result from the activity of each relevant trading desk and adjust volatility parameters as required to ensure that the company’s pricing is in line with the market.
• Set the trading parameters of the execution systems used by the company to ensure competitive participation in the marketplace.
• Follow the trading flow to ensure optimal positioning to absorb the supply and demand disbalances that occasionally drive market prices.
• Develop and maintain a daily trading plan to anticipate various trading scenarios and set out intended courses of action depending on each outcome.
• Monitor key trading statistics to ensure that trading activities are appropriately adjusted as soon as deviation from prescribed KPIs becomes apparent.
• Liaise with brokers, assess pricing structures, and provide up-to-the-minute pricing quotes based on market conditions and data analysis.
• Monitor the trading behavior and determine whether the quoting behaviors of the systems are sound and competitive based on a thorough understanding of the market and relevant data.
• Make adjustments to trading logic by preparing or requesting the relevant change to the quoting script and following through with its implementation and release into production and by making changes to internal trading systems.
• Identify and implement modifications to internal trading systems, including assessing the logic amendment required, formulating a request, discussing with key stakeholders, including the Head of Desk, submitting feature change requests, and working with the technology team to see the change through implementation.
• Establish and refine metrics that enable the trading desk to assess the pricing dislocation in risk factors relevant to the desk: implied vs realized volatility, implied vs realized skew, kurtosis, and future spread level.
• Investigate trades that challenge the competitiveness or the sound functioning of systems through detailed and thorough review of to-the-microsecond and order-by-order market data, and make improvements to that research framework.
• Train and guide juniors and experienced hires to ensure that all team members have a thorough understanding of the tools that underpin trading activities.

Salary: $150,000-180,000 per annum.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

•  Requires Master’s degree in Finance, Financial Engineering, Quantitative Finance, or a related field of study, plus one (1) year of experience with financial theory; relative value trading; systematic position taking; modeling; developing and maintaining a daily trading plan; risk monitoring; C++ scripting and/or Python scripting. 

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.

#LI-DNI

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.

We are seeking a highly motivated and technically adept individual to join our expanding operations team in the United States. Beginning with hands-on, in-depth training provided by the global operations team, you will quickly assume a key role as the primary contact for all operational activities supporting the rapidly growing US trading desks. Covering an ever-expanding product base, you’ll play a critical role in building and optimizing robust operational processes, ensuring data integrity across all trade, position, and cash management activities.

Maven’s Operations team thrives on proactive collaboration, strong financial and technical expertise, and the innovative use of technology. You will be empowered to leverage automation, advanced data analytics, and the latest operational tools to enhance efficiency, drive process improvements, and support business growth. Working cross-functionally, you will build trusted relationships across the business, positioning yourself as a subject matter expert across multiple disciplines.

ROLE SPECIFICATIONS

• Monitoring of US trading activity and responding to trader inquiries including booking trades, position organisation and drop copy/FIX messaging monitoring
• Daily monitoring and resolution of trade breaks and fails with prime brokers, clearers, and counterparties
• Daily monitoring and processing of trade lifecycle and corporate action activity in line with trading desk decisions and prime broker elections
• Reconciliation of all trade & cash activity, PnL, positions, and cash balances across all relevant portfolios and accounts   
• Work closely with line manager, managing duties and tasks set in a proactive organised manner
• Monitor group email inbox in relation to resolving breaks, settlement activity, fails, buy-ins etc as necessary
• Assist London & Hong Kong Operations teams as needed during US hours
• Perform BAU duties to a high standard and provide assistance in team projects

CANDIDATE SPECIFICATIONS

• BA in business/accounting/finance or related discipline
• 2-5 years operational experience gained at a market making or proprietary trading firm
• Ability to respond in an accurate manner to queries from front office and other Business Support Teams
• Experience working in a high-pressure & high-volume environment with ability to deliver results in time sensitive situations
• Knowledge of equity and listed derivative instruments including lifecycle events such as corporate actions and exercise / assignments, respectively
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills 
• Knowledge of VBA/Python/SQL is advantageous

WHAT WE OFFER:

• A great environment whereby technology is key to our success.
• The upside of start-up without the associated risks.
• Friendly, informal and highly rewarding culture.
• Informal dress code.
• Great offices with free food and plenty of social events.
• Fast growing global firm with significant opportunity to build a long term career.
• Annual base compensation $85,000 - $110,000 USD plus eligibility for a discretionary bonus

Senior Quantitative Researcher - Options Market Making 

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 role: 

As a Senior Quantitative Researcher, you will lead projects that have a direct impact on our trading performance. You will work collaboratively with other researchers and traders from various scientific fields and prestigious academic institutions, to develop innovative real-time trading models and solutions for low latency trading systems for exchange-traded options. You will share your knowledge and expertise with other researchers to tackle various challenging projects including but not limited to option pricing and volatility models, algorithm design and alpha research.

What we’re looking for: 

• Academic degree in applied mathematics, computer science, statistics engineering or physics. PhD or any other track record in conducting independent research. 
• Minimum 3+ years of experience in the financial industry, particularly electronic options trading. 
• Ability to research advanced algorithms, develop predictive models and verify complex hypotheses using large datasets.
• Proactive interest in improving existing trading strategies and identifying new opportunities. 
• A collaborative bridge between developers, and traders who aligns technical work with commercial impact and the broader strategic vision, and a real team player with other quants in the team.

Why you should apply: 

• Rare opportunity to take a high level of responsibility at a fast-growing global trading firm 
• Opportunity to be highly involved in the decisions that shape our trading
• Flexible research environment to iterate on your ideas quickly and see the impact of your work in production
• Leadership opportunities as the team grow
• Great engineering environment where technology, creativity and innovation is key to our success
• An environment where you’re empowered and supported to achieve your ambitions
• Friendly, informal and highly rewarding culture
• The upside of a start-up without the associated risks

WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU

• Competitive compensation 
• Annual discretionary bonus 
• Fully catered breakfast and lunch
• 25 days’ annual leave
• Informal dress code 
• Private healthcare and life assurance
• Group Pension plan 

The Options Market Making team at Maven Securities operates under a strict direct sourcing model. We are committed to managing all recruitment activities internally to ensure a consistent and transparent candidate experience. As such, we do not accept unsolicited CVs or introductions from recruitment agencies. If you're interested in this opportunity, please apply directly.

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 ROLE

You'll join an Options Market Making desk as a Trading Analyst. You'll analyse trading data, prototype strategies with traders, and build tools that help the desk make better decisions.

We've invested in modern tooling — including AI — so you can move fast and spend your time on the problems that matter. Markets generate questions faster than anyone can answer them, and your job is to figure out which ones matter, find good answers, and explain what you've found to people who'll act on it.

We're looking for someone who's curious about markets, thinks creatively about problems, and is willing to challenge an answer — whoever or whatever produced it.

WHAT THE WORK LOOKS LIKE

• Digging into trading data, surfacing patterns, and producing analysis the desk can act on
• Working directly with traders to prototype ideas, test hypotheses, and iterate on strategies
• Building scripts, dashboards, and automated workflows that make the desk smarter over time
• Framing trading problems in ways that get the most out of our tooling
• Spotting operational improvements, data anomalies, and strategy refinements — and bringing them to the desk

WHO YOU ARE

How you think

• You enjoy deep analysis of problems and get energized by questions you don't yet know how to answer
• You don't trust an output just because it looks polished — you verify and iterate
• You're comfortable testing ideas under uncertainty
• You explain complex things clearly

What you know

• Strong Python — you can write it, read it, debug it, and confidently review code
• Solid numerical and analytical skills — comfortable with statistical reasoning and data interpretation
• SQL, or the willingness to learn it quickly
• Some experience with AI tools for analysis, coding, or research — we don't expect mastery, but you should have been experimenting

Who you are

• Interested in financial markets, derivatives, and how markets work
• You take ownership of outcomes, not just tasks
• You make the people around you more effective
• You're adaptable — the tools and landscape shift constantly

NICE TO HAVE

• Experience in a trading environment or financial services
• Experience building dashboards, data pipelines, or analytical tools
• A portfolio, GitHub profile, or side projects — we care more about how you think and build than where you studied

WHY MAVEN

• Your analysis will directly shape trading decisions from day one
• Competitive compensation in a high-performance environment
• Be part of a firm that embodies integrity and fairness, market leadership, creativity, individual and collective success, discipline and accountability

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 ROLE: We are looking for ambitious and proactive Options Market Makers with a proven profit / risk management history to be a part of our expanding trading desk. The eligible candidate must be willing to trade a variety of instruments to help expand the expansion of our US office in Chicago. 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Day-to-day responsibility of the options book
• Rigorous risk management and perfect compliance with regulatory rules
• Improving strategies through analysis, prototyping and collaboration with developers
• Proactive behavior in helping other books achieve their goals through observation and analysis of trading behavior
• Designing and implementing new trading strategies
• Openness to trading new products and willingness to set them up
• To comply with all applicable Compliance policies, procedures, laws and regulations.

CANDIDATE SPECIFICATIONS:

• Prior options trading experience
• Successful track record of proven P&L and market share
• Good understanding of trading systems
• Outstanding numerical and analytical skills
• Familiarity with automated options trading strategies and an interest in their development
• Proactive interest in improving existing trading strategies and identifying new opportunities
• Ability to take a high level of responsibility in an expanding, highly successful firm
• Excellent attention to detail
• Fast problem solving skills
• Embodiment of Maven’s core values: Integrity and fairness, market leading, creativity, individual and collective success, discipline and accountability
• Programming skills (desirable)

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.