Akuna’s Quantitative Trading and Research team is looking to add Junior Quant Developers to a team of mathematicians, statisticians and technologists. This team creates trading strategies scientifically by combining its quantitative expertise with sophisticated understanding of derivatives and financial markets.

The successful candidate will have a strong programming background, familiarity with advanced mathematical techniques and the fluency of leveraging both skills to produce high-performance production code and trading solutions.

What you’ll do as a Junior Quantitative Developer at Akuna:

• Design and develop production code of trading strategies: pricing models, execution logic and performance optimization along with researchers and traders
• Design and develop front-end analytical and visualization tools
• Advance existing codebase and propose new solutions and improvements

Qualities that make great candidates:

• Pursuing a BS/MS/PhD in a technical field – Math, Physics, Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent
• Strong Python or C++ programming background
• Experience in object-oriented, generic and multithreaded programming
• Understanding in advanced Mathematics: Analysis, Linear Algebra, Statistics and Optimization
• Disciplined and rigorous mind of development