Quantitative trading and market-making firm with in-house technology infrastructure
Maven Securities runs a multi-strategy trading operation across global equities and derivatives, paired with an engineering organization building low-latency connectivity, automated pricing, and risk tooling in-house. The tech stack—Python, Julia, C++, FPGA, Kafka, Kubernetes—reflects a firm that treats infrastructure as a competitive edge. Current project velocity shows focus on options market making, exchange connectivity expansion, and LLM-powered risk monitoring, while hiring remains finance-heavy (nearly 5:1 ratio of traders/finance to engineers), typical of prop shops where trading logic drives engineering requirements.
Maven Securities is a proprietary trading and market-making firm founded in 2011, based in London and operating across equities, options, and global derivatives markets using both fundamental and quantitative strategies. The firm operates on its own capital and structures itself as a technology-enabled trading operation—engineering and technology are internal functions serving the trading desk rather than external products. With 201–500 employees, Maven maintains offices in the United Kingdom, United States, Netherlands, China, and Monaco. The company operates a mix of trading desks, quantitative research, and infrastructure engineering teams, with active hiring across finance, engineering, compliance, and data roles.
Core languages: Python, Julia, C++, C#, SystemVerilog. Infrastructure: Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, RabbitMQ. Specialized: FPGA for low-latency trading, Arista/Cisco/Juniper networking. Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana. BI: Power BI, Excel, VBA.
Options market making, automated pricing systems, low-latency exchange connectivity for new markets, regulatory reporting automation, LLM-powered risk monitoring, equity portfolio strategies, and algorithmic order execution optimization.
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