Akuna Capital
Junior Quantitative Developer & Strategist
About this role
Join Akuna Capital's quantitative team in Chicago to design and implement trading strategies that power an options market-making firm. You'll develop production code for pricing models, execution logic, and market signal analysis while collaborating with researchers, traders, and engineers—no prior finance experience required.
What you'll do
- Design and develop production trading strategy code including pricing models and execution logic
- Analyze market signals and incorporate them into trading systems
- Optimize strategy performance in collaboration with researchers and traders
- Advance the existing codebase and propose new technical solutions
- Rapidly prototype performant code to accelerate the innovation cycle
- Work cross-functionally with system engineers on low-latency implementations
What they're looking for
- Python programming
- Object-oriented programming
- Linear algebra and statistics
- Problem-solving under pressure
- Generic or parallel programming (preferred)
- Machine learning or optimization (preferred)
- Financial markets fundamentals
- High-performance computing
Benefits
- Discretionary performance bonus
- Employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Retirement contributions
- Paid time off
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Exposure to cutting-edge trading technology and derivatives markets
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Akuna Capital
Akuna Capital is an options market-maker and trading firm that operates 24/7 across crypto and traditional markets globally. The company is hiring Systems Engineers, Software Engineers, Security Engineers, and Data Engineers to build and maintain low-latency trading infrastructure, core trading systems, large-scale data pipelines, and secure technical infrastructure.
View all jobs at Akuna CapitalLikely interview questions
- Walk us through a recent project where you optimized code for performance—what was the bottleneck and how did you solve it?
- Describe your experience with object-oriented programming and how you've structured large codebases.