Quant Trader: Positional Strategies & Alpha Discovery

Maven; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation package

Annual discretionary bonus

Enhanced annual leave after 2+ years

25 days annual leave

On-site private gym

Monthly company events

Private healthcare

Job summary

Maven Securities is a leading, employee-owned proprietary trading firm specialising in derivatives trading and quantitative methods. London-based, the Quantitative Positional Trading team seeks exceptional Quant Traders to drive growth in alpha strategies and asset classes.

The role emphasizes ownership of end-to-end investment processes—from market intuition to trade execution and performance attribution—with opportunities to shape the desk’s evolution as it expands.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in quantitative research or trading, prior derivatives desk experience preferred.
• Commercial trading mindset with appetite for risk ownership.
• Strong and effective communication for quick iteration in a fast-moving environment.
• Strong analytical skills and research capabilities.
• Familiarity with Python and SQL or similar programming and database languages.

Responsibilities

• Active participation in trading and risk management of systematic strategies and discretionary decision making.
• Active participation in optimising and parametrising execution systems.
• Conduct research and backtests on potential alphas across the volatility surface, term structure, 0DTE, relative value and dispersion trades.
• Perform analysis into PnL attribution, market dynamics and changes in volatility surfaces.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, tech and quant teams to modelling and execution improvements.

Skills

Quant trading

Quantitative research

Python

SQL

Communication

Tools

Python

SQL

Job description

Maven Securities is a leading, employee-owned proprietary trading firm specialising in derivatives trading and quantitative methods. London-based, the Quantitative Positional Trading team seeks exceptional Quant Traders to drive growth in alpha strategies and asset classes.

The role emphasizes ownership of end-to-end investment processes—from market intuition to trade execution and performance attribution—with opportunities to shape the desk’s evolution as it expands.