Junior Quantitative Developer & Strategist

Akuna Capital is an innovative trading firm with a strong focus on collaboration, cutting-edge technology, data driven solutions and automation.

We specialize 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.

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, London, and Singapore.

What you’ll do as a Junior Quantitative Developer & Junior Quantitative Strategist at Akuna:

Akuna’s Quant team creates trading strategies scientifically by combining its quantitative expertise with sophisticated understanding of derivatives and financial markets.

The team is looking to add both Junior Quant Developers and Junior Quant Strategists who will make a direct and measurable impact on our trading decisions and performance.

We are searching for creative thinkers with strong programming backgrounds who can convert ideas into trading solutions, tighten our innovation cycle through rapid prototyping of performant production code, and have the desire to develop a deep understanding of financial markets.

No prior experience with financial markets is required.

In these roles you will:

• Design and develop production code of trading strategies: pricing models, execution logic and performance optimization along with researchers, traders, and system engineers.
• Analyze and incorporate market signals in our trading systems.
• Advance existing codebase and propose new solutions and improvements.

Qualities that make great candidates:

• Bachelors, masters, or PhD degree in a technical field – Engineering, Computer Science, Math, Physics (or related subject) must be completed upon employment
• Strong Python programming background
• Experience in object-oriented programming
• Exposure to linear algebra and introductory statistics