Junior Quantitative Developer & Strategist
Akuna CapitalBase Salary
$145k - $145k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and develop production code for trading strategies, including pricing models, execution logic, and performance optimization.
- Analyze and incorporate market signals into trading systems.
- Advance the existing codebase and propose new solutions and improvements.
- Collaborate with researchers, traders, and systems engineers to rapidly prototype performant production code.
Requirements
- A completed bachelor's, master's, or PhD degree in a technical field such as engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics, or a related subject by employment.
- Strong Python programming background and experience with object-oriented programming.
- Exposure to linear algebra and introductory statistics.
- Graduation by August 2026 or earlier and a 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.
- Additional qualifications may include generic or parallel programming and knowledge of numerical methods, statistics, optimization, signal processing, computer architecture, machine learning, or heterogeneous/high-performance computing.
- Exposure to financial markets and trading is beneficial but not required.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package may include employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage, retirement contributions, paid time off, and other benefits.
- The role is based in Illinois and requires legal authorization to work in the U.S. on the first day of employment, including F-1 students using OPT or STEM.
- Candidates must graduate by August 2026 or earlier and submit resumes in PDF format.
About Akuna Capital
Akuna Capital is an innovative trading firm with a strong focus on cutting-edge technology, data driven decisions and automation. Our core competency is providing liquidity as an options market-maker – meaning we provide 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. We are the leading options market-maker to successfully enter the industry in recent years with sustainable growth. By providing more liquidity to the markets through rapid innovation, we have the advantage of youth in remaining nimble and agile in an ever-changing competitive landscape. Akuna has no clients or external investors, we trade only with the company’s capital. We have dozens of employee-shareholders and this number continues to grow. We are really proud of what we have accomplished since inception, but even more excited for all that lies ahead of us. We are still building, accessing new markets, trading new products, and creating new strategies, giving you the opportunity to be involved in shaping the future of Akuna. Indeed, the great majority of Akuna’s growth profile is ahead of us. Visit Us: A 360 Virtual Reality Experience: https://vr.akunacapital.com