Akuna Capital

Akuna Capital

Performance Engineer

Chicago, IL

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 100 days ago
PythonC++ReactCommunicationCollaboration

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Entry-level history0
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Lottery odds40
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Green-card follow-through: 55%

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About the role

  • About Akuna: Akuna Capital is an innovative trading firm with a strong focus on collaboration, cutting-edge technology, data driven solutions, and automation.
  • This team is responsible for maintaining and increasing our competitiveness at the various exchanges Akuna does business with around the globe.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to the design and implementation of our trading engine by increasing its performance with projects such as benchmarking systems, evaluating new devices, latency, and throughput analysis
  • Develop tools and applications for benchmarking new devices and software
  • Use a data driven approach to collaborate with relevant Trading, Quant, and Technology teams to expand and improve our systems, footprint, and latency across different strategies and exchanges
  • Strong C++ or Python programming background with demonstrated experience developing performant, scalable applications

Skills

  • 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.
  • as a Performance Engineer at Akuna:

Compensation

  • In accordance with Illinois Equal Pay Act, the minimum base salary starts at $145,000.

Company info

  • 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.
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