Jobs at Akuna Capital

Provide production support for proprietary trading systems, including installation, configuration, troubleshooting, release management, monitoring, and environment operations. Automate workflows, build secure deployment pipelines, and collaborate with development, trading, and infrastructure teams to resolve critical incidents. The role requires Linux administration, Python and Bash scripting, database knowledge, strong communication, cross-functional teamwork, and on-call availability.

Own production support for proprietary trading systems, including installation, configuration, troubleshooting, release management, automation, pipeline development, and environment monitoring. Collaborate with trading, development, and infrastructure teams to resolve critical incidents and support evolving system architecture. The role requires Linux, Python, Bash, database, communication, cross-functional collaboration, incident management, and on-call capabilities.

Design, implement, and deliver mission-critical low-latency trading systems in modern C++ on Linux. Build scalable services, participate in Agile development, design sessions, and code reviews, and collaborate with traders and quantitative researchers. Troubleshoot complex issues across teams while applying distributed systems, algorithms, data structures, object-oriented design, and multithreaded programming.

Design, implement, test, and deploy low-latency trading strategies in modern C++. Collaborate with traders and researchers to build high-performance software driven by large-scale data and mathematical models. Apply expertise in parallel programming, distributed systems, networking, and performance analysis while contributing to architecture, Agile development, and potentially project or team leadership.

The Project Manager oversees multiple projects, driving timelines, motivating teams, and ensuring efficient communication while identifying risks and aligning project goals with stakeholder expectations.

As a Performance Engineer, you will enhance the trading engine's performance through software optimizations, benchmarking tools, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to identify improvement opportunities.

As a Software Engineer at Akuna, you will develop trading systems using modern C++ technologies, implement Linux services, and collaborate with traders.

As a Quantitative Researcher, you will develop trading strategies and improve predictive models using statistical and machine learning algorithms, while collaborating with trading teams.

As a Software Engineer on the Data Engineering team, you will design and maintain data platforms, build and deploy pipelines, and mentor junior engineers while working on high-impact projects across various teams.

Manage APAC tax compliance and reporting, including income tax, GST/VAT, withholding tax, transfer pricing, tax provisions, audits, and regulatory research. Coordinate with external advisors, tax authorities, auditors, Finance, Legal, and HR. Support tax planning, business expansions, process improvements, controls, and automation while communicating tax developments and ensuring compliance across APAC jurisdictions.

One-week, in-person micro-internship introducing options trading: crash courses on risk management, game theory, and decision making; hands-on trading simulations; desk shadowing; lectures, networking, and social events. Transportation, accommodation, and a competitive stipend provided.

As a Quant Strategist, you will develop and enhance trading strategies using quantitative expertise, focusing on programming, analysis, and market signals collaboration.

Invite to join Akuna Capital's Talent Community for first access to new roles, events, and company updates. Communications are limited; resumes are kept on file and candidates contacted for roles matching their experience.

Develop and maintain Business Operations engineering projects including a bitemporal PostgreSQL cost-attribution system. Build integrations with Jira, NetSuite, Device42, Bitbucket, and other sources. Integrate LLM/AI APIs and native AI features into workflows, automate reports and pipelines for Procurement/Finance/HR, and ensure secure data-handling. Lead development, document schemas, and support deployment and ongoing production maintenance.

As a Quantitative Researcher, you will develop sports pricing capabilities by designing data pipelines, calibrating pricing models, and deploying models into trading strategies.

10-week platform engineering internship building and automating scalable, reliable hybrid-cloud platform systems. Interns design, implement, and test production infrastructure, collaborate with platform teams, and own a project to improve platform capabilities.

Join the UI team for a 10-week summer internship to design, build, test, and maintain real-time C# .NET desktop trading applications. Collaborate with traders, quants, and engineers, implement unit and integration tests, evaluate UI technologies, and participate in Agile/Scrum and application support processes. Interns own a project and present outcomes at program end.

10-week quant intern will design and implement production trading code, build pricing and execution models, analyze market signals, optimize performance, and collaborate with researchers, traders, and engineers to improve trading systems.

Work on high-performance, low-latency C++ systems for trading: maintain core systems, implement lower-risk features, execute individual projects, and collaborate with Quant and Trading. Focus areas include concurrency, networking, profiling, and performance tuning while supporting multithreaded, asynchronous, and distributed architectures.

Develop and prototype production trading code (pricing models, execution logic, performance optimizations), analyze and incorporate market signals, and collaborate with researchers, traders, and engineers to improve trading systems.