Akuna is currently looking for a motivated developer to join our engineering team and contribute to the development of innovative low-latency trading strategies that will directly influence Akuna’s bottom line. Your role will focus on analysis, design, implementation, testing and delivery of key trading system technology using the latest technologies. A pragmatic approach to technology solutions, using the latest open source software will be required. The successful candidate will be given a unique level of exposure to an industry-leading team of options traders who participate fully in the design and on-going enhancements to our proprietary trading platform.
What you’ll do as a C++ Developer at Akuna:
- Design, develop and support our Automated Trading Systems
- Collaborate with quantitative researches and traders on strategy development
- Plan, design and implement high quality Linux services
- Engage with traders and developers and articulate ideas clearly
- Build software using Agile methodologies
- Participate in design sessions and code reviews
- Work on cross-functional teams to troubleshoot and solve complex problems
- Design and implementation of database schemas/data storage
Qualities that make great candidates:
- Experience developing low-latency option trading strategies
- Understanding of distributed systems, data structures and algorithms
- Practical use of multi-threaded / multi-core programming paradigms
- Object-oriented design and programming experience
- Familiar with Object databases or similar
- Experience with Linux and Python required
- Understanding of Postgresql and HDF
- 2-5 years of experience developing performant, scalable applications in C++ (and least 2 years with C++11)
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math or equivalent
Location: Champaign, IL
Department: Development