About Akuna:

Akuna Capital is an innovative trading firm with a strong focus on collaboration, cutting-edge technology, data driven solutions, and automation. We specialize 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.

Our Founding Partners 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, London, and Boston.

What you’ll do as a Software Engineer on the Pricing & Analytics Infrastructure team at Akuna:

Akuna’s Pricing & Analytics Infrastructure team builds the foundations for trading by combining quantitative expertise with our advanced coding framework. We are looking for an exceptional candidate who can combine optimization and refactoring of existing code with design and implementation of new methods. We create and distribute a suite of multi-platform function libraries to deliver efficient trading solutions and high-performance production code supporting Data, Pricing, Quant Research and Execution services within Akuna. In this role, you will:  

• Solve coding and design problems that are beyond the reach of many quants
• Solve quantitative and numerical problems that are beyond the reach of most developers
• Take ownership of reusable solutions, and responsibility for your own bugs
• Build the frameworks for future quantitative library development at Akuna
• Extend and improve our existing high-performance pricing libraries
• Write production-quality infrastructure, and deliver tactical solutions in the same framework
• Code optimization, generalization, and refactoring

Qualities that make great candidates:

This is a demanding technical and quantitative position, and requires C++ skills. Any successful applicant must have 5 years of professional work experience developing software applications in C++.  We expect a solid understanding of modern C++ (C++03 to C++17 and beyond). We also demand fluency in designing and programming both at a high level of abstraction, and at the level of bytes and pointers.

Other qualities we are looking for include:

• MS/PhD degree in a technical discipline: Electrical Engineering, Physical or Computer Science
• Ability to solve problems independently, collaborate with peers, and respond to client needs
• Experience with Cuda or cross-language FFI development and numerical methods
• Understanding of build orchestration and tooling, especially in a POSIX environment
• Exposure to and/or the desire and ability to learn the intricacies of financial markets and trading
• Independent work, while also being a team player with a can-do attitude