Graduate Software Engineer

About Akuna:

Akuna Capital is an innovative trading firm with a strong focus on collaboration, cutting-edge technology, data driven solutions and automation. We specialise 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. To do this successfully we design and implement our own low latency technologies, trading strategies and mathematical models. At Akuna we have a flat structure, where the best idea wins.

Our Founding Partners, including Andrew Killion, first conceptualized Akuna in their hometown of Sydney. 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, Boston and London.

What you'll do as a Junior Software Engineer at Akuna:

Akuna is looking for a Graduate Software Engineer to join our development team and contribute to building our proprietary trading systems. Our engineers use modern technologies and development approaches while owning the end to end delivery of projects. In this role you will:

1. Work with a range of technology systems and problems, ranging from trading algorithms, performance optimisation, data infrastructure and analysis, to systems reliability and core infrastructure.
2. Collaborate closely with colleagues from within the technology team and other departments including quant and trading to identify and deliver high impact projects.
3. Be responsible for the full software development life cycle from requirements analysis, design, development, testing, deployment, and post deployment reliability and performance.
4. Work with a range of programming languages and technologies, including C++ and Python.
5. Contribute innovative ideas and solutions to the team.

Qualities that make great candidates:

1. BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent technical field.
2. 0-2 years' experience, must be graduating by Jul 2025 or prior.
3. Ability to complete technical interviews in at least one of either Python or C++.
4. Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
5. Passion for building high quality software within a fast-moving environment.
6. Familiarity with data structures, algorithms, and lower-level performance optimisation.
7. Familiarity with multi-threaded and distributed systems.

Please note: If you apply to multiple roles, you may be asked to complete multiple coding challenges and interviews.