Akuna Capital
Platform Engineer Intern, Summer 2027
Chicago, IL · Intern · Internship
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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.
- Each intern takes full ownership of their project, and at the end of the program, has the opportunity to present their work and accomplishments.
Responsibilities
- Support and design the ongoing growth, design, and expansion of our Platform offerings to meet the needs of our internal stakeholders with scalable, reliable, and highly available systems
- Produce clean, well-tested, and documented code with a clear design to support production infrastructure and systems
Requirements
- Pursuing a bachelor's, master's, or Ph.D. in a technical field (computer science/engineering, math, physics, or equivalent)
- Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required on the first day of employment including F-1 students using OPT or STEM
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Kubernetes, and AWS Cloud
- Experience with cloud computing, networking, data engineering and security
- Ability to react quickly and accurately to rapidly changing market conditions, including the ability to quickly and accurately respond and/or solve math and coding problems, is an essential function of the role
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, Singapore, and London.
- as a Platform Engineer Intern at Akuna:
Compensation
- In accordance with the Illinois Equal Pay Act, the minimum annualized 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.
- We are an AI-friendly company and encourage employees to leverage AI in their daily work.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required on the first day of employment including F-1 students using OPT or STEM
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