Equity Options Quant Trader - Volatility Alpha

Trading Interview; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual discretionary bonus

Private healthcare

Life assurance

On-site gym

Breakfast, lunch, snacks

Monthly events

25 days annual leave

Job summary

Maven, a market-leading proprietary trading firm, is seeking an ambitious Equity Options Quant Trader to join the Vol Alpha Trading Team. This full-cycle role targets statistical arbitrage relative value volatility and dispersion trades across global equity options, with a current emphasis on US options.

The role covers alpha discovery, backtesting, and end-to-end trade execution, and requires collaboration with infrastructure and development teams to optimise electronic trading and manage risk

Qualifications

• 2–5 years’ experience in US equity options quantitative research or trading.
• Strong understanding of options markets, volatility, and equity derivatives.
• Interest in volatility relative value, carry, term structure, or dispersion strategies.
• Commercial trader mindset with appetite for risk ownership.
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced, opportunistic trading environment.
• Strong analytical and research skills.
• Familiarity with Python and SQL or similar programming and database languages.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and rationalise market flow to identify pricing dislocations
• Analyse and interpret other market participants’ positionings to identify trading opportunities
• Conduct research and backtests on pricing and structuring volatility curve, term structure, relative value and dispersion trades
• Contribute to new alpha discovery through market dynamics observations and quantitative research toolings
• Active participation in trading and risk-managing an extensive equity options portfolio as part of a team
• Active participation in the desk’s future build-out into a bigger set of alpha and systematic strategies
• Full end-to-end investment cycle from intuition, research, to execution
• Collaboration with infrastructure and development teams to optimise electronic trading execution and minimise dependencies

Skills

Python

SQL

Options markets knowledge

Job description

Maven, a market-leading proprietary trading firm, is seeking an ambitious Equity Options Quant Trader to join the Vol Alpha Trading Team. This full-cycle role targets statistical arbitrage relative value volatility and dispersion trades across global equity options, with a current emphasis on US options.

The role covers alpha discovery, backtesting, and end-to-end trade execution, and requires collaboration with infrastructure and development teams to optimise electronic trading and manage risk