About Akuna
Akuna Capital is a fast-growing derivatives trading firm located in downtown Chicago that specializes in market-making and arbitrage. Founded in 2011, Akuna has quickly expanded from a start-up to a successful leader on US options exchanges and has already begun international expansion. In July of 2013 Akuna opened a dedicated technology office in the Research Park of the University of Illinois. The office houses a blend of full-time developers and student interns working on Akuna’s mission-critical systems. We’ve grown significantly from humble but determined beginnings and still proudly retain the spirit of a smaller, entrepreneurial start-up.
Job Description
We have an opportunity for a motivated developer to join our performance team and contribute to the build-out of our proprietary options market-making trading platform. Your role will focus on high performance data parsing and how we transfer data to make it useable for the data analysts.
What you’ll do as a C++ Developer at Akuna:
- Data collection, real time data parsing and data storage
- Implement high quality services
- Engage traders and developers and articulate ideas clearly
- Participate in design sessions and code reviews
- Work on cross-functional teams
- Be mentored by Senior Developers to learn the trading system and domain
- Solve complex problems and troubleshoot issues
Qualities that make great candidates:
- 2-5 years of experience in developing performant, scalable applications in C++ (and at least 2 years with C++11)
- Experience with databases and data storage (HDF5 and Elasticsearch preferred)
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math or equivalent
- Experience with concurrent programming (e.g. multi-threaded, reactor, etc.)
- Experience with multi-core programming paradigms
- Understanding of distributed systems, data structures and algorithms
- Understanding concepts of networking (i.e. TCP, UDP, multicast)
- Capable of writing unit tests and functional tests
- Ability to break down large problems methodically
- Experience with Linux and Python
Please apply directly to our website: http://www.akunacapital.com/job-details/?jobid=80356&gh_src=