Role at a glance
- Salary
- Not Disclosed
- Location
- Shanghai, China
- Work arrangement
- On-site
- Experience
- Entry Level 0-2 years' experience, must be graduating by Jul 2027 or prior
- Education
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent technical field
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Role Summary
Akuna is seeking a Junior C++ Developer to join its development team and contribute to building its proprietary trading systems. The role involves owning end-to-end delivery of projects using modern technologies and development approaches.
What You'll Do
- Work on high-performance and low-latency systems spanning exchange connectivity, trading algorithms, pricing, and automation.
- Collaborate with technology, quant, and trading colleagues to identify and deliver high impact projects.
- Be responsible for the full software development life cycle, from requirements analysis through post-deployment reliability and performance.
- Contribute innovative ideas and solutions to the team.
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View full postingQualifications
A BS, MS, or PhD in a technical field with 0-2 years' experience, familiarity with modern C++, and strong communication and collaboration skills.
Required
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent technical field
- 0-2 years' experience, must be graduating by Jul 2027 or prior
- Familiarity with modern C++ development and best practices
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Passion for building high quality software within a fast-moving environment
- Familiarity with data structures, algorithms, and lower-level performance optimisation
- Familiarity with multi-threaded and distributed systems
- Willing to communicate in English at the technical interviews
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About Akuna
Akuna Capital is an innovative trading firm with a strong focus on collaboration, cutting-edge technology, data driven solutions and automation. We specialise 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. At Akuna we have a flat structure, where the best idea wins.
Our Founding Partners, including Andrew Killion, 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 Shanghai, Sydney, Singapore and London.
What you’ll do as Junior Developer on the C++ Team at Akuna:
- Work on a range of high-performance and low-latency systems, ranging from exchange connectivity, trading algorithms, pricing, and automation.
- Collaborate closely with colleagues from within the technology team and other departments including quant and trading to identify and deliver high impact projects.
- Be responsible for the full software development life cycle from requirements analysis, design, development, testing, deployment, and post deployment reliability and performance.
- Contribute innovative ideas and solutions to the team.
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent technical field
- 0-2 years' experience, must be graduating by Jul 2027 or prior
- Familiarity with modern C++ development and best practices
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Passion for building high quality software within a fast-moving environment
- Familiarity with data structures, algorithms, and lower-level performance optimisation
- Familiarity with multi-threaded and distributed systems
- Willing to communicate in English at the technical interviews.
About the company
Akuna Capital
Mid-size Company
Akuna Capital is a proprietary trading firm specializing in derivatives trading and market making. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Chicago, the company leverages advanced technology and quantitative strategies to drive its trading operations in global financial markets. With a strong commitment to innovation and a dynamic work culture, Akuna attracts top talent in finance, technology, and mathematics, fostering an environment that encourages collaboration and growth. The firm's focus on agility and efficiency allows it to adapt quickly to market changes, positioning itself as a leader in the trading industry.