Software Engineer Intern - Python, Summer 2027
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 join the Post Trade Technology or Data Engineering team for a 10-week internship, working with software engineers and traders to design and implement solutions to complex problems. You will take ownership of a project, build high-performance systems that process and analyze trading and market data, and present your work at the end of the program.
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
- Major GPA of 3.5 or above
- Legal authorization to work in the U.S. on the first day of employment, including F-1 students using OPT or STEM
- Strong programming skills in object-oriented Python development
- Demonstrated experience with distributed systems
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to communicate with the trading team, obtain requirements, find solutions, and implement them cleanly and concisely
- Ability to create an understandable and testable codebase
- Ability to respond quickly and accurately to mathematics and coding problems
- Passion for innovation and building systems from the ground up
- Adaptability
- Ability to work independently
Responsibilities
- Design and implement solutions to complex problems
- Take full ownership of an assigned project
- Build systems that process and analyze large volumes of trading and market data
- Present project work and accomplishments at the end of the program