About Akuna
Empowering traders with cutting-edge technology
Key Highlights
- Founded in 2011, headquartered in Chicago
- Over 300 employees focused on derivatives trading
- Utilizes advanced quantitative strategies and technology
- Strong emphasis on a collaborative and innovative culture
Akuna Capital is a proprietary trading firm specializing in derivatives and market-making. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Chicago, Akuna leverages advanced technology and quantitative strategies to trade across various asset classes. The firm has grown to over 300 employees and is known for it...
🎁 Benefits
Akuna Capital offers competitive salaries, performance-based bonuses, equity options, generous PTO policies, and a flexible remote work policy to supp...
🌟 Culture
Akuna fosters a culture of collaboration and innovation, emphasizing the importance of technology in trading. The firm values transparency and encoura...
Job Description
About Akuna:
Akuna Capital is an innovative trading firm with a strong focus on collaboration, cutting-edge technology, data driven solutions and automation. We specialise in providing liquidity as an options market maker – meaning we are committed to providing competitive quotes that we are willing to both buy and sell. To do this successfully we design and implement our own low latency technologies, trading strategies and mathematical models. At Akuna we have a flat structure, where the best idea wins.
Our Founding Partners, including Andrew Killion, first conceptualized Akuna in their hometown of Sydney. They opened the firm’s first office in 2011 in the heart of the derivatives industry and the options capital of the world – Chicago. Today, Akuna is proud to operate from additional offices in Sydney, Shanghai, Singapore and London.
What you’ll do as a Software Engineer at Akuna:
- Work with a range of technology systems and problems, ranging from trading algorithms, performance optimisation, data infrastructure and analysis, to systems reliability and core infrastructure.
- Collaborate closely with colleagues from within the technology team and other departments including quant and trading to identify and deliver high impact projects.
- Be responsible for the full software development life cycle from requirements analysis, design, development, testing, deployment, and post deployment reliability and performance.
- Work with a range of programming languages and technologies, including C++ and Python
- Contribute innovative ideas and solutions to the team.
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent technical field
- 0-3 years' experience, must be graduated by July 2026 or prior
- Ability to complete technical interviews in at least one of either C++ or Python
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Passion for building high quality software within a fast-moving environment
- Familiarity with data structures, algorithms, and lower-level performance optimisation
- Familiarity with multi-threaded and distributed systems.
Please note: If you apply to multiple roles, you may be asked to complete multiple online assessments and interviews.
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