Jobs at Akuna Capital

Designs and operates secure, scalable hybrid-cloud platforms for a trading firm. Responsibilities include managing AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud environments; deploying Kubernetes, Spark, Kafka, and distributed databases; automating infrastructure with Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, and GitLab; improving cloud governance; monitoring production systems; maintaining CI/CD pipelines; troubleshooting Linux environments; and leading technical initiatives while mentoring engineers.

Maintain and improve Akuna’s Linux server platform supporting low-latency trading. Responsibilities include managing data-center infrastructure, deploying and operating Kubernetes services, automating software and hardware tasks, monitoring systems, tuning performance, supporting storage and virtualization platforms, and troubleshooting Linux, networking, and database issues. The role also involves evaluating technologies, maintaining scripts and tools, and independently owning infrastructure projects.

Manage and maintain Akuna’s Linux server platform supporting a high-performance trading environment. Responsibilities include infrastructure design, deployment, monitoring, performance tuning, automation, systems analysis, troubleshooting, and management of local and third-party data center infrastructure. The role also supports Kubernetes services, configuration management, virtualization, storage platforms, CI/CD tooling, databases, networking, and Linux kernel and low-latency optimization.

Develop and implement statistical and machine learning trading strategies and quantitative models. Design optimization algorithms for portfolio construction and explore new research opportunities within derivatives and market behavior.

Designs and operates hybrid-cloud platforms across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Responsibilities include managing Kubernetes, distributed data technologies, infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, cloud governance, security, observability, and production reliability. The role evaluates architectures, automates infrastructure, monitors cloud deployments, leads technical initiatives, and mentors engineers while collaborating with trading, development, infrastructure, and operations teams.

Conduct fundamental research on companies, industries, earnings, catalysts, corporate actions, and market-moving news to develop differentiated trade views. Analyze event-driven opportunities, build valuation models and research tooling, pitch long/short and volatility strategies, and defend recommendations to the Relative Value desk. The role also involves tracking information sources, developing options-market expertise, collaborating with traders, and using data, technology, and AI tools to improve research output.

Develop proprietary low-latency trading systems in modern C++, including exchange connectivity, trading algorithms, pricing, and automation. Own software projects across requirements analysis, design, development, testing, deployment, and post-deployment reliability. Collaborate with technology, quantitative, and trading teams to deliver high-impact projects while applying data structures, algorithms, multithreading, distributed systems, and performance optimization.

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.

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.

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.