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Quantitative Researcher

Posted 26 Mar 2024
Work experience
0 to 1 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Degree level
Required language
English (Fluent)

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Maven is a proprietary trading and market making organisation formed in 2011. We employ the most talented traders, developers and engineers in the market, executing a diverse range of strategies across global equities and derivatives. We are the most active participant in many of the products we trade, contributing significant liquidity to markets around the world.

Maven has a culture that is relaxed and informal but highly rewarding of strong performance; there's no dress code, plenty of free food and regular social events. We have offices in London, Hong Kong and New York and will be opening a new Chicago office as part of our plans to expand our coverage of derivatives markets.

The Role:

Maven is looking for an ambitious quantitative researcher to join the quantitative team in its options market making business. The successful candidate will research and design option pricing models and work on volatility fitting.

This is a full-time, permanent role based in London (with the possibility of transferring to Hong Kong or the US later).

CANDIDATE SPECIFICATIONS

Required:

  • Quantitative experience with options
  • Experience working with large time series data
  • Excellent programming skills including experience with Python
  • 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
  • Outstanding analytical and statistical skills
  • Excellent attention to detail and fast problem-solving skills
  • Strong communication skills
  • The embodiment of Maven’s core values: Integrity and fairness, creativity, individual and collective success, discipline and accountability

We are a firm that specialises in the proprietary trading of financial instruments. Founded in 2011, Maven is a young and dynamic organisation with growing presence on a number of markets. We employ a small team of experienced trading and technology professionals.
Our objective is to develop an organisation which is nimble and energetic, suited to grow in the rapidly evolving…


We are a firm that specialises in the proprietary trading of financial instruments. Founded in 2011, Maven is a young and dynamic organisation with growing presence on a number of markets. We employ a small team of experienced trading and technology professionals.

Our objective is to develop an organisation which is nimble and energetic, suited to grow in the rapidly evolving landscape of the global financial markets.

Don't forget to keep up to date with all our news and latest opportunities on social media:

Twitter: @MavenGradJobs
Facebook: @MavenGradCareers
LinkedIn: Maven-Securities

Finance & Banking
London
110 employees

What employees are saying

Nima Noorizadeh

Trader

At Mavens inception in 2011, the founders sat together to discuss the core principles that would form the bedrock of the firm. Among the many topics we discussed two stood out for me; rewarding entrepreneurialism and collaboration.
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Tom Murphy

Market Making

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