Junior Developer - C++
Akuna Capital
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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 Junior Developer on the C++ Team at Akuna:
- Work on a range of high-performance and low-latency systems, ranging from exchange connectivity, trading algorithms, pricing, and automation.
- Collaborate closely with colleagues from within the technology team and other departments including quant and trading to identify and deliver high impact projects.
- Be responsible for the full software development life cycle from requirements analysis, design, development, testing, deployment, and post deployment reliability and performance.
- Contribute innovative ideas and solutions to the team.
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent technical field
- 0-2 years' experience, must be graduating by Jul 2027 or prior
- Familiarity with modern C++ development and best practices
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Passion for building high quality software within a fast-moving environment
- Familiarity with data structures, algorithms, and lower-level performance optimisation
- Familiarity with multi-threaded and distributed systems
- Willing to communicate in English at the technical interviews.
About this role
Akuna Capital's Shanghai office is hiring Junior C++ Developers to work on proprietary trading systems that power options market making. You'd own projects across the full development lifecycle—from requirements through deployment—touching high-performance, low-latency infrastructure like exchange connectivity, trading algorithms, and pricing engines. The role involves close collaboration with quant researchers and traders to identify and ship high-impact solutions.
This is an in-office position suited for recent graduates or those with up to two years of experience in C++. You'll need solid fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and performance optimization, plus working knowledge of multi-threaded and distributed systems. Strong communication skills matter here, both for technical interviews conducted in English and for working across a flat organizational structure where ideas are evaluated on merit.
If you're drawn to building robust, performant software in a fast-moving quantitative finance environment and have the technical foundation to contribute meaningfully from day one, this could be a strong fit.
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