Junior Floor Trader

Mavensecuritiesholdingltd; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k

Annual discretionary bonus

25 days’ annual leave

Informal dress code

Private healthcare

Monthly company events

Job summary

Mavensecuritiesholdingltd is seeking a junior trader in Chicago to join its Options Market Making team in September 2026. This role involves executing trades, creating tools for trading processes, and collaborating with in-house traders and developers to optimize strategies.

Prospective candidates will undergo training in London for 5 weeks before relocating to Chicago. The position offers competitive compensation, including an annual discretionary bonus, private healthcare, and 25 days of annual leave.

Qualifications

• 0-2 years of experience in Options Market Making.
• Ability to make quick decisions in a high-pressure environment.
• Proactive self-starter.

Responsibilities

• Execute trades.
• Create tools to improve trading processes.
• Analyze strategies and suggest improvements.
• Support operational tasks on the trading desk.

Skills

Decision-making under pressure

Options Market Making experience

Data analysis

Tools

Pricing tools

Trading scripts

Job description

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 global listed derivatives. We leverage cutting edge execution and pricing technologies to elevate and improve how financial markets operate.

THE ROLE:

We are seeking a junior trader to join our Options Market Making trading team in Chicago in September 2026. The role’s primary function will be to provide liquidity and execute trades on behalf of Maven while physically located in the CBOE SPX trading pit, leveraging Maven’s proprietary pricing and tooling. The role will additionally involve collaborating with Maven’s in‑house traders, and developers to improve all facets of trading on the desk including tooling, pricing and execution

While the role will ultimately be in Chicago, prospective candidates will be expected to undergo training as part of our Graduate Trader Training cohort in London for a duration of approximately five weeks beginning on 7th September 2026.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

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

CANDIDATE SPECIFICATIONS:

• 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

  WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU:

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

  Total Compensation Range: $150,000-190,000