Akuna Capital
Performance Engineer
Chicago, IL
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 9 days ago
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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
- This can be achieved through software optimizations, analysis of hardware, orchestration of physical installations, analysis of exchange specific protocols, or building tools for gauging Akuna's performance.
- 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.
Compensation
- In accordance with Illinois Equal Pay Act, the minimum base salary starts at $145,000.
Company info
- We are seeking to grow our Performance Engineering Team, which is focused on a rigorous and holistic approach to improving software, hardware, and strategy performance.
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