Quantitative Developer
Description
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 Shanghai, Sydney, Singapore and London.
What you’ll do as a Quantitative Developer on the Quant Trading & Research team at Akuna:
Akuna’s Quantitative Trading and Research team creates trading strategies scientifically by combining its quantitative expertise with sophisticated understanding of derivatives and financial markets. The team is looking to add Quantitative Developers who will work alongside researchers, traders, and system engineers to develop software that incorporates vast amounts of data to drive sophisticated strategies, capturing market opportunities before our competition.
The successful candidate will have a strong programming background to produce trading solutions and high-performance production code. In this role you will:
- Design and develop production code of trading strategies: pricing models, execution logic and performance optimization
- Develop and improve data and research pipeline
- Advance existing codebase and propose new solutions and improvements
Requirements for this role:
- 3+ years of experience developing performant, scalable applications in modern C++
- BS/MS/PhD degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or equivalent
- Experience using data to drive decision-making
- Desire and ability to learn the intricacies of financial markets
- Willing to prepare and take English technical interviews
Qualities that make great candidates:
- Solid understanding of multi-threaded/multi-core programming paradigms
- Experience with high frequency trading system
- Deeper understanding of any of the following fields: Linear Algebra, Numerical Methods, Statistics, Optimization, Signal Processing, Computer Architecture, Machine Learning, Heterogeneous/High Performance computing
- The 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 are essential functions of the role
- Passion towards financial markets and trading
Skills
As published by greenhouse · 18 questions · 3 written answers
Basics
First Name, Last Name, Preferred First Name, Email, Phone, Resume/CV, Cover Letter, Location
Short answers (5)
- What's your legal full name please?
- If you selected "other" for "Which Chinese University did/do you attend", please indicate below. 如在上方选项中未找到您就读的国内学校信息，请在此处填写，谢谢。 optional
- If you selected 'Other', please list your university: 如在上方选项中未找到您就读的国外学校信息，请在此处填写，谢谢。 optional
- Graduation year and month for your highest education. 请告知您最高学历已结业或预计毕业时间（年、月)，谢谢。
- If you selected "Akuna Employee Referral", please list the Akuna Employee's name here: 如您在上方选择“Akuna员工推荐”，请告知对方姓名，谢谢。 optional
Pick from a list (10)
- Are you legally authorized to work in Shanghai? (In compliance with local laws and regulations, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in mainland China.) 请确认您的身份信息，谢谢。
- Which Chinese University did/do you attend? 如您目前或曾在国内就读，请填写您就读的国内学校信息（包含港澳台）；如您一直在国外就读，请选择“I do/did not attend Chinese university”选项，谢谢。
- Which International University do/did you attend? 如您目前或曾在国外就读，请填写您就读的国外学校信息；如您一直在国内就读，请直接选择“I do/did not attend international university”选项，谢谢。
- How did you first hear about Akuna? 请问您第一次听说Akuna是从哪里？
- How did you hear about this job? 请问您第一次听说这个职位信息是从哪里？
- Have you previously worked at a trading firm? 请问您是否在量化交易公司有过工作经验？
- How many years of C++ programming experience do you have? 请问您有多少年的 C++ 编程经验？
- Have you applied to a full time or internship position with Akuna in the past? 如您此前有申请过Akuna任意办公室任意职位，请选择"Yes"；如您是初次申请，请选择"No"，谢谢。
- Do you have any offer deadlines that we should be aware of? 请问您是否有Offer截止日期需要我们知晓和配合？
- I acknowledge the Privacy Policy located online at https://akunacapital.com/privacy-policy, including the references to the collection, use, and internal disclosures of my personal and/or sensitive information and acknowledge that my Personal Information may be transferred, accessed, stored or otherwise processed outside of Mainland China as described in the online Privacy Policy for the legitimate business interests of Akuna. I acknowledge uploading my English resume to complete my application.
Written answers (3)
- If you selected 'Other', how did you first hear about Akuna? (please be specific) 如您在上方选择“Other其他”，请告知具体信息，谢谢。 optional
- If you selected 'Other', please list how you heard about this job: 如您在上方选择“Other其他”，请告知具体信息，谢谢。 optional
- If you have upcoming deadlines, please explain which company and when the deadline is: 如有Offer截止日期，还请告知具体信息（如公司、截止日等），谢谢。 optional