Compensation & Benefits Coordinator
You will assist in managing Akuna's benefits offerings and compensation. You will support the Compensation & Benefits Specialist and HR Team, administer US employee benefits and retirement programs, and proactively improve processes to enhance employee experience.
Software Engineer - C++, Trading Strategies
You will design and implement low-latency trading strategies using modern C++, working directly with traders and researchers to bring sophisticated, ultra-fast strategies to market. Your work involves data-driven decision-making and performance optimization.
Mid|Full-time|Financial services
Development Internship - C++, Summer 2026
You'll work on high-performance/low-latency systems, designing and implementing C++ solutions alongside trading and software teams. You'll contribute to trading infrastructure, algorithms, models, or performance engineering in a collaborative, flat-structured environment.
Intern|Internship|Financial trading
You will design and build mission-critical, low latency trading systems for Akuna Capital's proprietary options market-making platform, collaborating closely with traders to implement efficient and resilient Linux services using modern C++.
Mid|Full-time|Financial services
Junior Compliance Analyst
As a Junior Compliance Analyst at Akuna Capital, you will assist the Compliance team in ensuring regulatory obligations are met. You'll monitor surveillance systems, review trading activity, and investigate suspicious behavior to help maintain market integrity.
Junior|Full-time|Financial services
You will oversee multiple projects at once, driving timelines, motivating teams, and achieving project execution. You'll ask insightful questions to determine scope, goals, and resources, proactively identify risks, and streamline workflows to enable engineers to focus on execution.
You will maintain and optimize Akuna Capital's global low-latency trading network, collaborating with trading, IT, and development teams to configure and troubleshoot infrastructure. You'll be the sole network resource during core hours, ensuring stability of critical systems, and will provide evening/weekend support and travel to data centers.
Senior|Full-time|Financial services
You will develop trading strategies using statistical and machine learning algorithms, working with a team of mathematicians and technologists to create quantitative models and optimize low latency strategies. Your work will directly impact Akuna's strategy portfolio and market-making operations.
As a Quantitative Trader at Akuna Capital, you will manage trading strategies and improve profitability by converting ideas into quantitative models. You will implement trading signals that influence our automated trading, develop a deep understanding of derivatives theory and financial markets, and generate ideas on trading opportunities, product insights, risk management, and trading systems.
You will collaborate with trading, IT infrastructure, and development teams to configure and troubleshoot network infrastructure, provide day-to-day support including port configuration and cabling, and perform evening/weekend maintenance and data center travel.
Junior|Full-time|Financial trading
Join Akuna's Quantitative Trading and Research team to develop and enhance trading strategies using quantitative expertise. You'll design production code for trading models, analyze market signals, and improve our systems, directly impacting trading decisions and performance.
Mid|Full-time|Financial Services
As a Senior Systems Engineer at Akuna Capital, you will build and maintain low-latency trading infrastructure, design automation and orchestration solutions, and optimize global trading environments. Collaborating with developers, you'll tackle complex technical challenges and drive projects to completion.
You will design and build mission-critical, complex trading systems using modern C++ technologies, working closely with traders to enhance Akuna's proprietary options market-making platform.
You will develop trading strategies using statistical and machine learning algorithms, drive improvements in predictive models through signal and feature research, and design scalable machine learning workflows to support efficient and reproducible research.
You will make markets on SPX options for brokers using proprietary software on the CBOE floor, collaborating with experienced traders to identify and execute opportunities that directly impact team P&L.
Systems Engineer
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
You'll join Akuna Capital to design, deploy, and maintain the high-performance Linux server platform supporting our trading environment. Your work will automate daily software and hardware tasks, improving efficiency and reliability. This role offers a flat structure where **the best idea wins**, with direct impact on **low-latency trading technology**.
Software Engineer - Data Engineering
Design, build, and maintain systems to collect, store, process, and manage Akuna's data assets in support of trading, quant, and business operations. You will work with streaming and batch pipelines on a hybrid cloud architecture, collaborating closely with trading and quant teams.
Senior|Full-time|Financial services
Experienced Options Trader
You will manage a derivatives portfolio, dynamically control risk, and work with technology and quant teams to optimize trading algorithms. Your role is crucial in providing liquidity as an options market-maker, leveraging data-driven insights and collaborating with experienced traders.
You will make markets on options for brokers and banks via chat and voice, working in a collaborative team with experienced traders to identify and execute opportunities. Your prior experience will add immediate value while you learn Akuna's systems and trading style.
Senior|Full-time|Financial services
Quantitative Researcher - Prediction Markets
You'll develop **sports pricing models** for prediction markets, working with trading and development to deploy them. Your work directly impacts **in-play quoting** of sports contracts. This role offers a chance to **shape a new desk** at a leading trading firm.
You'll join Akuna Capital to design, deploy, and maintain a high-performance Linux server platform supporting our trading environment. You'll automate daily tasks and ensure system health. This role offers exposure to cutting-edge low latency technologies in a flat-structured, innovative trading firm.
Junior Quantitative Researcher
You'll join Akuna's Prediction Markets team to develop sports pricing models and data pipelines. You'll have a direct impact on a new desk, working closely with trading and development to deploy models into production.
2026 Virtual Quant Trading Challenge
You'll participate in a **virtual trading challenge** where you write your own market-making bots to compete on a simulated exchange. Your core impact is demonstrating your quantitative skills and Python proficiency to potentially expedite recruitment for **Quant full-time and internship roles**. The competition runs for one week and takes about 5-8 hours to complete.
Remote|Intern|Internship|Finance
You will join Akuna Capital's Performance Engineering Team to improve the performance of our trading engine through software optimizations, hardware analysis, and tool development. You'll collaborate with trading, quant, and technology teams, using a data-driven approach to identify bottlenecks and enhance system latency and throughput.
You'll design and maintain **low latency trading infrastructure** and build **automated deployments and tooling** for a global trading environment. You'll collaborate with developers to **optimize system performance and reliability** in a fast-paced team.
Broker Trader - Equities/Index
You'll join Akuna's SnP desk to make markets on options for brokers and banks via chat and voice platforms. Your day-to-day impact will be directly reflected in the team's P&L. This role offers a chance to learn from experienced traders in a collaborative environment while bringing immediate value from your existing options market-making experience.
Experienced Options Trader - SOFR
You'll join Akuna Capital's SOFR desk as a mid-to-senior electronic options trader, making markets and managing risk across CME SOFR options. You'll collaborate with **quant and technology teams** to refine volatility models and automated trading infrastructure. This role offers a **clear path to full desk ownership** for the right candidate.
You'll own projects end-to-end to accelerate **trading platform performance** using cutting-edge **FPGA technology** and high-performance computing architectures. You'll partner closely with low-latency, trading, and software teams to drive innovation. This role offers the opportunity to impact mission-critical systems at a leading options market-maker.
You'll lead the direction of Akuna's **machine learning infrastructure** and enable success of ML initiatives across the firm. Partnering with quantitative research and trading teams, you'll own the **full ML lifecycle** from research to deployment and monitoring.
You'll lead Akuna Capital's machine learning infrastructure, enabling the full ML lifecycle from research to deployment. Your work will power key trading and research initiatives with scalable, reliable platforms. This role offers high ownership and cross-team impact.
You'll design and maintain **low latency trading platforms** and **automated infrastructure** for a global market-making firm. Your work ensures the reliability and performance of our high-frequency trading environment. This role offers the chance to solve complex problems at scale.