Trading Core Developer (C++)

Akuna Capital is a proprietary trading firm specializing in derivatives market making and sophisticated modeling with a commitment to cutting edge financial technology. Akuna’s unmatched growth profile and non-client structure provides a unique place for innovation and opportunity in the home of proprietary trading – Chicago.

Akuna is currently looking for a motivated developer to join our engineering team and contribute to the build-out of our proprietary trading platform infrastructure. Your role 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.

• Design, develop and support our core trading systems
• Work on cross-team projects that have high impact to our trading systems
• Plan, design and implement high quality Linux services
• Engage with traders and developers and articulate ideas clearly
• Build software using Agile methodologies
• Participate in design sessions and code reviews
• Solve complex problems and troubleshoot issues
• Design and implementation of database schemas/data storage

• Experience with low-latency, highly flexible trading system frameworks and libraries
• Understanding of distributed systems, data structures and algorithms
• Practical use of multi-threaded / multi-core programming paradigms
• Object-oriented design and programming experience
• Familiar with Object databases or similar
• Experience with Linux and Python required
• Understanding of Postgresql and HDF
• 2-5 years of experience developing performant, scalable applications in C++ (and least 2 years with C++11)
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math or equivalent