Who we are
Akuna Capital is a fast-growing trading house that
specializes in derivative market-making and arbitrage. We pair up experienced
and talented traders with industry-leading low latency IT, giving the company a
huge advantage in the dynamic screen-based trading sphere. Founded in 2011, the
company trades on major derivative markets across the US, our offices are in Chicago,
Shanghai, Champaign and Boston.
Our traders and developers work collaboratively in order to
drive business outcomes and technical innovation, which is integral to our
success.
How
we’re Different
Our Shanghai office (Akuna Software Technologies) is growing fast!
Due to the growth in our Shanghai office and unbelievable opportunity in the Chinese market, we have a number of career – charging opportunities available for talented and passionate developers to join us.
What you’ll do
You will join our engineering team and contribute to the build-out of our proprietary options market-making trading platform infrastructure. You will be building and optimizing our automated trading systems and connections to the exchanges.
You will be working collaboratively with other top-class developers as well as researching and integrating new technologies into our systems as the opportunities arise. You will focus on analysis, design, implementation, testing and delivery of key trading system technology using the latest technologies.
A pragmatic approach to technology solutions, using the latest open source software will be required. The successful candidate will be given a unique level of exposure to an industry-leading team of options traders who participate fully in the design and on-going enhancements to our proprietary trading platform.
• 0 to 2 years in C++ development on Linux
• Core libraries – STL/Boost
• Experience in multithread programing
• Proven track record of building high performance, low latency, multithreaded trading platforms will be a big plus
• Optimization/Networking a plus (TCP/IP-UDP)
• Understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Object-oriented design and programming
• Good verbal and written English communication skills
• Strong problem solving skills and demonstrated ability to drive technical innovation and work in a self-sufficient manner
• A passion for delivering high quality software which is scalable, clean, fast and reliable
