Quantitative Developer
Akuna Capital is a proprietary trading firm specializing in options market making.
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.
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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will develop and optimize production code for trading strategies, including pricing models and execution logic. You will improve data and research pipelines, enhance the existing codebase, and propose new technical solutions. You will work with researchers, traders, and system engineers to build data-driven trading software.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience developing performant, scalable applications in modern C++
- BS, MS, or PhD degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or equivalent
- Experience using data to drive decision-making
- Desire and ability to learn the intricacies of financial markets
- Willingness to prepare for and take English technical interviews
- Understanding of multi-threaded and multi-core programming paradigms
- Experience with high-frequency trading systems
- Understanding of Linear Algebra, Numerical Methods, Statistics, Optimization, Signal Processing, Computer Architecture, Machine Learning, or heterogeneous and high-performance computing
- Ability to react quickly and accurately to changing market conditions and solve math and coding problems
- Passion for financial markets and trading
Responsibilities
- Design and develop production code for trading strategies, including pricing models, execution logic, and performance optimization
- Develop and improve the data and research pipeline
- Advance the existing codebase and propose new solutions and improvements