Software Engineer Intern - C++
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.
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About the Role
You will work on high-performance, multithreaded, asynchronous, and distributed C++ systems during a 10-week summer internship. You will progress projects from design through delivery and maintenance, collaborate with Quant and Trading stakeholders, and develop reliable, efficient, scalable solutions.
Requirements
- Pursuing a bachelor's, master's, or Ph.D. in computer science, engineering, mathematics, physics, or an equivalent technical field
- Graduating by August 2028
- Legal authorization to work in the United States on the first day of employment, including F-1 students using OPT or STEM
- Modern C++ programming experience using C++20 or later, with C++23 preferred
- Experience with distributed systems, parallel processing, asynchronous architectures, networking, protocol encoding or decoding, lock-free data structures and algorithms, performance profiling, or scripting
- Familiarity with GDB, Valgrind, or address sanitizer
- Ability to communicate with Quant and Trading stakeholders and collaborate with developers
Responsibilities
- Work on high-performance C++ systems
- Progress projects from ideation and design through delivery and maintenance
- Add functionality to existing systems
- Implement new components
- Experiment with technologies and patterns
- Communicate with Quant and Trading stakeholders
- Collaborate with developers to deliver cohesive solutions
- Fix bugs and maintain systems
Benefits
- Discretionary performance bonus
- Employer-paid medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Retirement contributions
- Paid time off
