Quant Strategist
Akuna Capital is a proprietary trading firm specializing in options market making. It provides liquidity across global financial markets using advanced technology, quantitative research, trading strategies, and automation.
About Akuna Capital
Akuna Capital is a global proprietary trading firm headquartered in Chicago, with offices in London, Sydney, Shanghai, and Singapore. The firm provides liquidity as an options market maker across global financial markets, covering products including commodities, indexes, and cryptocurrencies. Akuna designs and develops its own low-latency trading systems, mathematical models, strategies, and infrastructure through its Technology, Trading, Quant, and Operations departments. It also offers an Options 101 course introducing industry fundamentals and options trading concepts.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You design and develop production code for trading strategies, analyze market signals, improve the existing codebase, prototype trading solutions, monitor financial market developments, respond to changing market conditions, solve mathematical and coding challenges, and deepen your understanding of financial markets.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in a technical field such as engineering, computer science, mathematics, or physics
- 3+ years of experience in a quantitative or programming role
- Proficient programming skills in Python
- Ability to learn financial markets and trading mechanisms
- Understanding of linear algebra, numerical methods, statistics, optimization, signal processing, computer architecture, machine learning, and heterogeneous or high-performance computing
- Analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong interest in financial markets and trading
Responsibilities
- Design and develop production code for pricing models, execution logic, and performance optimization
- Analyze and incorporate market signals into trading systems
- Advance the existing codebase with new solutions, optimizations, and improvements
- Prototype trading solutions using quantitative analysis and market research
- Monitor industry trends and financial market developments
- Respond to changing market conditions and solve mathematical and coding challenges
- Develop knowledge of financial markets and strategic initiatives
Benefits
- Employer-paid medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Retirement contributions
- Paid time off
- Discretionary performance bonus
