ABOUT THE COMPANY:

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.

Overview

We are seeking a talented and motivated UI developer) to join our Market Making Technology team.

You will work closely with our existing UI developers and UX designers to deliver the next generation of Maven's trading applications along with its underlying web platform, component library and design system.

The role will involve

• UI development
• Delivery of new applications and bringing new functionality to existing apps
• Contributing to our core UI framework, including creation of modular components in React and TypeScript
• Participating in discussions on direction and code review
• Collaboration with backend developers to ensure seamless integration
• Supporting our suite of trading applications by troubleshooting, debugging and fixing UI related issues

Must have skills and experience

• Excellent UI development skills in JavaScript/TypeScript, including component and library development
• Proven experience and a keen interest in UX and UI design principles
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Pragmatic self-starter with the ability to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines

 Desirable / nice to have

• Experience with React, component libraries and design systems
• Experience working on complex and data rich user interfaces running across multiple desktops
• Experience working in the financial sector

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

As a Trader Graduate, you will complete an intensive training programme run by our most talented traders, including theory training, education sessions, live-market trading, and programming courses. We will teach you the skills to trade with the latest available tools and we aim to give you responsibility for the profit and loss of your book as soon as you are ready.

We are looking for final year applicants from any quantitative background with a competitive nature and a strong understanding of probability and statistics to join our Graduate Trader Programme in Amsterdam. The programme start date will be Monday 7th September 2026.

Training Location 

All Graduates will complete an initial 3-month training period in London. Upon completion of training, candidates will be relocate to our Amsterdam office to join Options Market Making trading desks.

What we’re looking for

• Strong numeracy and a good understanding of probability and statistics
• Competitive nature and a curiosity to learn with a keen interest in financial markets 
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to solve problems creatively 
• Good communication skills and drive to work collaboratively  
• A final year undergraduate student or a final year masters student 
• Familiarity with programming languages such as Python, VBA, SQL, R, C++ or C#

What we offer:

• Opportunity to execute live trades within 3 months of starting
• Direct exposure and graduate training from industry leaders 
• Informal, friendly and highly rewarding culture with a  relaxed dress code and frequent social events.
• Fast growing global firm where your work will have a significant impact
• Extensive support network throughout your programme 

Please only apply to one of our Intern or Graduate programmes, as we are only able to consider your application for one programme. 

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 an ambitious and proactive European Single Stock Options Market Maker with a proven profit / risk management history to be a part of our equity options market making desk. The eligible candidate has extensive experience trading single stocks options on multiple European exchanges as well as the ability and leadership skills to build out expanding desks. 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Day-to-day responsibility of trading and managing a part of the single stocks options book
• Rigorous risk management and compliance with regulatory rules
• Improving option pricing and trading strategies through close collaboration with a team of fundamental stock analysts 
• Designing, implementing and improving strategies through data  analysis, prototyping and collaboration with developers
• Driving pricing and execution improvements through combining systematic and quantitative skills with product knowledge 

CANDIDATE SPECIFICATIONS:

• At least 3 years experience trading European single stock options in a market making role
• Successful track record of proven P&L and market share
• Good understanding of the market structure of European single stock options
• Outstanding numerical, analytical skills and excellent attention to detail
• Familiarity with automated options trading strategies and a proactive interest in their development
• Ability to take a high level of responsibility in an expanding, highly successful firm
• Embodiment of Maven’s core values: Integrity and fairness, market leading, creativity, individual and collective success, discipline and accountability
• Experience in programming is a plus

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

As a Trader Intern, you will complete a 9 week training programme in Options Market Making run by our traders, including trading simulation, project work and programming courses. Throughout the internship you will gain insight into the work of our market making desks whilst having the opportunity to get to know us at our regular social events. At the end of the internship, you will be considered for a place on our 2027 Amsterdam Graduate Trader Programme. 

During the Internship, you will spend your first 3 weeks in our London office for a fast-paced, interactive introduction to Trading, before returning to Amsterdam for the remaining 6 weeks of the programme. 

You must be in your penultimate year of university in order to be eligible for this position. We are looking for candidates from any quantitative background with a competitive nature and a strong understanding of probability and statistics to join our team for the summer. The programme will run from 22nd June - 21st August 2026. 

What we are looking for:

• Strong numeracy and a good understanding of probability and statistics
• Competitive nature with a curiosity to learn with a keen interest in financial markets 
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to solve problems creatively 
• Good communication skills and drive to work collaboratively  
• A penultimate year student with a bachelor's degree or higher in a quantitative field

What we offer:

• Insight into the work of our market making desks 
• Direct training from industry leaders 
• Fully stocked kitchen with free breakfast and lunch
• Informal, friendly and highly rewarding culture with a relaxed dress code and social events
• Extensive support network throughout your programme 

Following the Internship, successful candidates will be considered for a place on our 2027 Graduate Trader Programme in Amsterdam.