Akuna is looking for motivated, self-starters to join our growing engineering team and contribute to the build-out of our proprietary options market-making trading platform. You will focus on analysis, design, implementation, and testing & delivery of Akuna’s trading system using the latest technologies. A pragmatic approach to technology solutions using the latest open source software will be required. Successful candidates will work closely with an industry-leading team of options traders who participate fully in the design and on-going enhancements to our proprietary trading platform.

What you’ll do as a C++ Developer at Akuna:

• Design and build mission critical and complex trading systems
• Plan, design and implement high quality Linux services using modern C++ technologies
• Build software using Agile methodologies
• Participate in design sessions and code reviews
• Work on cross-functional teams to troubleshoot and solve complex problems

Qualities that make great candidates:

• 3+ years of experience developing performant, scalable applications in C++ (and least 2 years with C++11)
• Experience with Linux and Python required
• Understanding of distributed systems, data structures and algorithms
• Practical use of multi-threaded / multi-core programming paradigms
• Object-oriented design and programming experience
• Familiar with Object databases or similar
• A curiosity and demonstrated interest in C++14 and beyond
• Ability to take on projects and drive them through to completion
• Familiarity with trading and trading systems is a plus
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math or equivalent