Our Emerging Talent Programmes provide opportunities to join Maven at an early stage in your career, whether that is during school, having just left school, university or having completed your PhD.
We believe everyone is entitled to a fair opportunity and make extraordinary efforts to seek potential candidates from a diverse range or establishments and backgrounds. Our programmes aim to quickly equip you with the knowledge and skills you’ll need to be successful in your career. We offer dedicated classroom learning, online courses and hands-on projects from day one.
If you have any queries, please reach out to us at emergingtalent@mavensecurities.com
Market making involves buying and selling financial products, allowing market participants to trade with us whenever they want to via exchanges. This is commonly known as liquidity provision and is an important service provided by our teams.
We offer regular entry to Emerging Talent Programmes for our Market Making teams across all locations. With dedicated trainers and a clear curriculum, you will receive market-leading instruction and support, whilst you learn to be a trader.
We are recruiting for final year university students or recent graduates from any quantitative background to join our Options Market Making Team in our Amsterdam office for 2026.
As a Trader Intern, you will complete a 9-week training programme in Options Market Making run by our Traders. Training will include trading simulation, theory training and project work. We are looking for penultimate year university students from a quantitative background with a competitive nature. At the end of the Internship, you will be considered for a place on our 2027 Graduate Trader Programme.
As a Quant Researcher you will work collaboratively with traders and software developers to tackle problems fundamental pricing, algorithm design and signal generation. We will teach you the skills to develop expertise in doing quantitative research for options market making in equities, commodities and fixed income. You will complete Quant Graduate training in London, where you learn about financial markets, our platform and specific quant research field for OMM, apply your academic research abilities and learn how to perform research on real-world data of varied volume and sampling frequency across a variety of domains. For those on our Chicago programme, after your initial training, you will relocate to our Chicago office.
Please note, this position is aimed at those who have fewer than 3 years professional work experience - if you have any questions regarding eligibility, please contact emergingtalent@mavensecurities.com
On our Graduate Developer Programme, you will learn how to deliver impactful software that solves Maven's most diverse problems, from low-latency software to large scale data analysis using Python, Modern C++ and C#. You’ll achieve this through a combination of classroom sessions, real world projects and team rotations to broaden your experience working alongside some of the industry’s best developers.
We are looking for final year applicants from any STEM background with a particular interest in building high performing systems to join our 2026 Graduate Developer Programme.
As a Software Developer Summer Intern you will complete a bespoke nine week program run by Maven’s talented developers. The programme will involve two weeks of hands on training in one or more of our core technologies (C#, C++, Python) and a seven week project placement directly supporting one of our technology teams. We are looking for penultimate year applicants with a particular interest in programming to join our team for the summer. At the end of the Internship, you will be considered for a place on our 2027 Graduate Developer Programme.
During your Trading Spring Week Programme, you will gain an introduction to market making in a simulated trading environment while also developing your professional skills.
You will have the chance to immerse yourself in Maven’s informal and high-performing culture while simultaneously receiving market-leading instruction and support from our dedicated trainers.
We are looking for students graduating in 2028 from any quantitative background to join our Trading Spring Week Programme in London. Following completion of the programme, you will be considered for a place on our 2027 Trader Summer Internship.
We are looking for students graduating in 2028 from any computer science and/or engineering background to join our Technology Spring Week Programme in London. You will be considered for a place on our 2027 Technology Summer Internship.
When applying for any of our roles, make sure you have carefully read the job description and meet the job requirements and eligibility criteria.
When preparing your CV, make sure you highlight the following: your educational background including relevant projects, work experience, and other experiences that demonstrate qualities such as motivation - these do not have to be related to Technology or Trading.
We can only accept your application for one of our Emerging Talent Programmes, please make sure that you only apply for the one you’d like to be considered for.
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We partner with The Talent Foundry to increase social mobility by working in partnership with schools, to help young people from underserved communities discover what they are amazing at and develop valuable new employment skills. Maven recently hosted 45 students from 5 schools in the London Office for workshops and coaching sessions. Maven volunteers share information on their career path, provide guidance, and motivations and act as role models to the students on the programme.
Maven supports Tintagel Tutoring to provide free 11+ tutoring to disadvantaged children in the Midlands. Their goal is to assist all students in achieving their full potential with the guidance they provide. In addition to the tutoring programme, we offer webinars for their partner school, Arthur Terry, a secondary and sixth-form college in Birmingham. These inspirational webinars educate secondary and 6th-form students about different career paths and inspire them to have aspirations beyond their current boundaries.
We partner with Blackbullion, a financial well-being platform and app to equip young people with money skills for life. Blackbullion recently supported us to launch our second scholarship, which was awarded to 8 Spring Week interns on our 2025 Spring Week Programme.
We partner with Rare, an award-winning recruitment company with a strong focus on diversity to ensure our recruitment process is bias-free. Rare is supporting Maven to enhance our hiring data allowing us to look not just at someone’s achievements, but at the context in which those achievements occurred. Rare also provides us with Hemisphere, a product that drives self-directed learning to address personal bias in hiring managers. This blends videos, educational animations and interactive exercises into an e-learning platform for interviewers and hiring managers.
Maven works with MyPlus to support us to ensure our recruitment processes are inclusive for all candidates who apply. MyPlus also helps students with disabilities discover job opportunities with disability-inclusive employers and provides advice, guidance and support on the application and hiring process. We are thrilled to announce that Maven was the 2024 winner of the MyPlus ‘Most Progressed Inclusive Recruitment’ Award.
We offer visa sponsorship for our Graduate roles, which will be discussed at later stages with candidates.
For our Internship programmes, you must hold the right to work in the region you are applying for at the time of application
We are unable to expedite applications on an individual basis, due to our interview timelines.
For our advice on how to best prepare, please check out the top tips tab on our webpage.
We are currently accepting applications for our Trader Graduate Programme in our Amsterdam & Chicago offices. For our Trader Internship Programme, we are accepting applications in our London, Amsterdam & Chicago offices. Please see each job posting for further information.
If you have previously applied for one of our Graduate and Intern programmes and been unsuccessful, you will be able to re-apply after 2 years. You can only apply to one role each year, so please ensure you apply to the role you’d like to be considered for.
We aim to get back to you as soon as possible, and within two weeks after completing your online assessment.
Yes, please contact emergingtalent@mavensecurities.com
If you experience a technical difficulty during any of the assessments, please reach out to the following:
Numerical assessment: support@vidcruiter.com
Probability assessment: support@vidcruiter.com
Coding assessment: support@hackerrank.com
Arctic Shores assessment: https://help.arcticshores.com/hc/en-gb
