Python Developer- Trading Infrastructure Team
Chicago, IL

Job Description

About Akuna:

Akuna Capital is a young and booming trading firm with a strong focus on collaboration, cutting-edge technology, data driven solutions and automation. We specialize 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.

Our Founding Partners, Andrew Killion and Mitchell Skinner, 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, and Boston.

What you'll do as a Python Developer on the Trading Infrastructure team at Akuna:

Akuna Capital is looking for mid-level and Senior Python Developers to join our growing development team and enhance our trading, position, and risk monitor systems! This person will work closely with some of our quants, developers, and traders on creating programs that generate new signals driving the trading systems, as well as rebuilding our existing systems to make them more flexible and scalable. This is a great opportunity for anyone that is looking to have ownership over new and exciting projects. This is a foundational piece of our infrastructure and the right applicant will bring an interest in writing clean and maintainable code, building large distributed systems. In this role, you will:

* Work on data retrieval, processing, validation and modeling
* Take inputs from traders and generate trading signals
* Work with various data sources/ inputs using Python
* Experience the full software development life cycle (requirements analysis, design, development, unit testing, execute and deployment, and post implementation support)

Qualities that make great candidates:

* 3+ years working with Python in a professional production environment
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Engineering, Math or equivalent
* Must have strong writing and verbal communication skills and must be able to work in an agile development environment
* Proven ability to communicate with less technical users to understand requirements and implement appropriate solutions
* Exposure to trading and finance is an asset
* Comfortable with JavaScript, HTML or CSS a plus