Graduate Floor Trader 2027
- Pay
- $150,000 – $190,000 per year
- Location
- Chicago, IL
- Listed
- Today
The Role
We are seeking a junior trader to join our Options Market Making trading team in Chicago in September 2027. 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 6th September 2027.
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
- Excellent communicator and teamwork skills
- Ability to cultivate and maintain relationships with trading partners
- Ability to demonstrate 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
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
Pay and benefits
Total Compensation Range: $150,000-190,000
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.
From Maven Securities's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on November 11, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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The Graduate Floor Trader 2027 posting at Maven Securities states compensation of $150,000 – $190,000 per year. Final pay may depend on location, experience, and interview evaluation on Maven Securities's official career site.
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