About Akuna
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 Partners first 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.
What you’ll do as a C++ Developer at Akuna:
- Design and build mission critical and complex trading systems
- Plan, design and implement high quality Linux services using modern C++ technologies
- Build software using Agile methodologies
- Participate in design sessions and code reviews
- Work on cross-functional teams to troubleshoot and solve complex problems
Qualities that make great candidates:
- 3+ years of experience developing high-performance, scalable applications in modern C++
- A working knowledge C++17/20 and strong experience with template meta-programming is a plus
- Experience with Linux and Python required
- Understanding of distributed systems, data structures and algorithms, object-oriented design
- Practical use of multi-threaded/multi-core programming paradigms
- A curiosity about and demonstrated interest in the C++ language and modern CPU architecture is a plus
- Ability to take on projects and drive them through to completion
- Familiarity with trading and trading systems is a plus, though definitely not a requirement (we have internal training for this)
- Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Engineering, Maths or equivalent
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