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Software Engineer

2 months ago

Chicago, Illinois, United States Akuna Capital Full time


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 Partnersfirst 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 and London.


Akuna is looking for Software Engineers who are excited to apply their skills to low latency trading. Working directly with Traders and Researchers, you will focus on analysis, design, implementation, testing and delivery of Akuna's strategies to the market. Your goal is to develop software that incorporates vast amounts of data to drive sophisticated, ultra-fast strategies, capturing market opportunities before our competition. In this role, you will:

Lead in the design, implementation, and deployment of trading strategies using modern C++ technologies
Bring deep technical knowledge in areas such as parallel programming, trading systems, networking, and performance analysis
Be extremely hands-on, producing both detailed technical work and high-level architectural designs
Have leadership opportunities across both project and team management
Build software using Agile methodologies and modern software best practices
Work directly with Traders and Researchers to create and enhance high performance, low latency trading strategies


3+ years of experience developing performant, scalable applications in modern C++14 and beyond
Experience developing trading strategies and/or a demonstrated passion for financial markets
Experience using data to drive decision-making
Significant experience with distributed systems, data structures, and algorithms
Solid understanding of multi-threaded/multi-core programming paradigms
Highly collaborative in nature, with excellent written and verbal communication skills
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math or equivalent