Software Engineer Intern - Data Engineering, Summer 2024

Akuna Capital

Oct 4, 2023

Applications are closed

Internship
Full-time
Summer Internship
Data
Chicago

Requirements

Pursuing a Bachelors, Masters or PhD in technical field – Computer Science/Engineering, Math, Physics or equivalent
Graduating by August 2025
Strong knowledge of computer science fundamentals
Clear understanding of both object oriented and functional programming paradigms
Ability to learn about technical systems and concepts quickly
Asks good questions, identifies black boxes, and is eager to learn about new topics
Desire to take ownership of small-scale projects
Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Flink/Spark/Kafka-Streams, and/or AWS Cloud technologies is a plus
Ability to communicate complex technical topics in a clear and concise ways
Passionate, pragmatic problem solver able to independently pursue solutions to complex problems
Understanding of the core concepts of distributing computing, database design, and data storage
Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required on the first day of employment including F-1 students using CPT, OPT or STEM

Responsibilities

Work closely with Engineers, Quants, Traders and Support personnel to create and maintain datasets that play a key role in our business
Design and build Scala/Python applications that provide performant access to our data
Monitor and validate our data pipelines by building monitoring and analysis tools
Gain exposure to the financial markets and trading through the development and use of our datasets
Evaluate and select open source or proprietary tools required to meet our data requirements
Design and develop tooling that enables users to answer key research questions and solve data problems
Collaborate with many teams on data intensive projects such as gathering requirements from stakeholders for a new tool or platform, advising and assisting users in integrating existing tooling and patterns into their applications or research, or consulting with a trader or researcher to help them build a new dataset or pipeline

Akuna Capital

The New Wave in Tech and Trading

Finance

Industry

201-500

Employees

2011

Founded Year

Mission & Purpose

Akuna Capital is an innovative trading firm with a strong focus on cutting-edge technology, data driven decisions and automation. Our core competency is providing liquidity as an options market-maker – meaning we provide 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, London, and Boston. We are the leading options market-maker to successfully enter the industry in recent years with sustainable growth. By providing more liquidity to the markets through rapid innovation, we have the advantage of youth in remaining nimble and agile in an ever-changing competitive landscape. Akuna has no clients or external investors, we trade only with the company’s capital. We have dozens of employee-shareholders and this number continues to grow. We are really proud of what we have accomplished since inception, but even more excited for all that lies ahead of us. We are still building, accessing new markets, trading new products, and creating new strategies, giving you the opportunity to be involved in shaping the future of Akuna. Indeed, the great majority of Akuna’s growth profile is ahead of us.