About the job
Join Akuna Capital as a Performance Engineer:
At Akuna Capital, we pride ourselves on being a forward-thinking trading firm that emphasizes collaboration, cutting-edge technology, and data-driven solutions. As an options market-maker, our mission is to provide competitive quotes for buying and selling, which is supported by our commitment to designing and implementing innovative low-latency technologies, trading strategies, and mathematical models.
Founded by our visionary partners in Sydney, we established our first office in 2011 in Chicago, the heart of the derivatives industry. Today, we are proud to have expanded our presence with additional offices in Sydney, Shanghai, London, and Singapore.
Your Role: As a key member of our Performance Engineering Team, you will adopt a holistic and rigorous approach to enhance software, hardware, and strategy performance. This includes increasing our competitiveness across global exchanges. Your responsibilities will include identifying optimization opportunities and executing improvements through software enhancements, hardware analysis, and performance benchmarking.

