Software Engineer; Entry-Level; C++

Akuna Capital is an innovative trading firm with a strong focus on collaboration,cutting-edge technology, data-driven solutions, and automation. We specialize in providing liquidity on a variety of exchanges across various asset classes, primarily asan options market maker. To do this successfully, webuildandmaintainour own low-latency technologies, including application frameworks, trading strategies, and mathematical models.

Our Founding Partners first conceptualized Akuna in their hometown of Sydney, Australia. 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 tooperatefromadditionaloffices around the world:

Sydney, Shanghai, Singapore, and London.

C++ software engineers at Akunahavethe opportunity to work on a variety of high-performance systems thatpowerthe firm’s core business operations.

Our engineers work on small-to-medium-sized teams thatfrequentlyinterface with Quant and Trading, allowing them to buildexpertisein a specific domain area whilemaintainingbroader exposure to the needs of their end-users.

Akuna’s C++ systems are heavily multithreaded, asynchronous, and distributed by nature, which comes with a slew of challenges; our engineers are tasked with ensuring these systemsarereliable,efficient, scalable,and flexible enough foreven the mostniche use cases. Entry-level engineer sin particularareresponsible forday-to-day upkeep of core systems, servicing lower-risk feature requests, and executing individual projects on behalf of theirteam’sstakeholders.

Akuna islooking for software engineers who are motivated,can solve complex problems, and are willing to reach forcreativesolutions when faced with novel problems. We value innovation, hard work, and knowledge, and we wantour engineers to make a direct impact on the firm. Whether you are interested in algorithms and data structures, concurrency, networking and protocols, performance tuning, data capture and analysis, mathematical modeling, hardware, or something else,there’sengaging work to be done.

• Pursuing a bachelor’s,master’s, orPh.D. in a technical field (computer science/engineering, math,physics, or equivalent)

• Graduating by August 2027

• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. as of the first day of employment, including F-1 students using OPT or STEM

Previous experience in finance or trading isnotrequired.

Many of ourengineersjoined

Akuna with little-to-nopriorknowledgeof the markets, and we pride ourselves on our ability to onboard those new to the industry. Training and continuous education are provided for all engineers to ensure they can buildthe requisite technical and non-technical skillset for success.

• Experience programming in modern C++ (C++20or later;C++23preferred)

• Experience with several of the following

• Distributed systems

• Parallel processing

• Asynchronous architectures

• Networking or protocol encoding/decoding

• Lock-free data structures and algorithms

• Performance profiling (e.g.perf,gprof,vtune)

• Scripting, such as in Python orshell

• Familiarity with standard debugging tools(e.g.GDB,Valgrind, address sanitizer)

• The ability to effectively communicate with non-technical stakeholders in Quant and Trading to obtain requirements, workshop solutions, and implement agreed-upon roadmaps

• The ability to react quickly and effectively 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

• A passion forbuildingcomplexsystems from the ground up

• The ability to collaborate with other…