About Akuna: 

Akuna Capital is an innovative trading firm with a strong focus on collaboration, cutting-edge technology, data driven solutions, and automation. We specialize 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. 

Our Founding Partners 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 Sydney, Shanghai, and London. 

What you’ll do as a Trade Support Engineer at Akuna: 

We are seeking a Trade Support Engineer to join our dynamic team at Akuna. This is a role that will focus on optimizing and managing the production trading environment. This person will be responsible for installing and managing production trading applications at both the desktop and server level, and actively supporting production trading activities.  In this role, you will: 

• Work closely with Development, Trading, and Infrastructure teams to make continuous improvements, troubleshoot issues, and configure the trading system 
• Work on automating daily and repetitive tasks 
• Learn and support the in-house and third-party software applications in our production trading system 

Qualities that make great candidates: 

• Minimum 2 years of relevant experience and qualifications  
• Familiar with Linux (RedHat, Ubuntu, etc.), automation tools, and not afraid of the command line 
• Experience with Python, Bash, Databases structures, and scripting techniques 
• Ability to learn and apply new concepts quickly 
• Understanding of the importance of risk & compliance procedures and controls 
• Team player with the ability to build relationships with multiple teams and offices 
• Excellent oral and written communication skills 
• Ability to make sound decisions in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment 
• On-call availability to work outside of core business hours or on weekends or holidays 
• The ability to react quickly and accurately to rapidly changing market conditions, including the ability to quickly and accurately respond and/or solve math and coding problems are essential functions of the role