Graduate Floor Trader 2027

The role

You will trade listed options on the CBOE SPX pit as an options market maker, providing liquidity on behalf of Maven. You will also build tools, scripts and pricing systems with traders and developers to improve the desk's trading and operations.

What you will do

• Execute trades
• Create tools and systems to advance the team's trading and operational processes
• Improve trading and automation tools to support research, pricing and execution
• Day-to-day responsibility for scripts that support trading activity
• Analyze trading strategies and suggest improvements to manage position sizes and exposure
• Design and improve trading strategies through data analysis, prototyping and collaboration with developers
• Proactively support operational tasks on the trading desks

Required qualifications

• Proactive self-starter with 0-2 years experience in options market making
• Ability to make decisions very quickly in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Ability to cultivate and maintain relationships with trading partners
• Demonstrated interest in financial markets
• Outstanding numerical and analytical skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Strong Python and Excel skills
• Embodiment of Maven's core values: integrity and fairness, market leading, creativity, individual and collective success, discipline and accountability

Benefits

• 401k
• Annual discretionary bonus
• 25 days' annual leave
• Informal dress code
• Private healthcare and life assurance
• Monthly company events
• 5 weeks of training in the London office

Before you apply

• Training of approximately five weeks in London is part of the Graduate Trader Training cohort starting 6 September 2027

About the company

Maven is a market-leading proprietary trading firm that allocates internal capital across discretionary, systematic and market-making strategies. It is a premier liquidity provider for global listed derivatives.