Akuna Capital

Junior Developer - C++

Shanghai, China

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Role family: Engineering
Seniority: Entry level
Country: CN
Work mode: Remote-friendly
First seen by hirly: 21 Sept 2026

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About Akuna

Akuna Capital is an innovative trading firm with a strong focus on collaboration, cutting-edge technology, data driven solutions and automation. We specialise 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. At Akuna we have a flat structure, where the best idea wins.

Our Founding Partners, including Andrew Killion, 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 Shanghai, Sydney, Singapore and London.

What you’ll do as Junior Developer on the C++ Team at Akuna:

Akuna is looking for Junior C++ Developers to join our development team and contribute to building our proprietary trading systems. Our engineers use modern technologies and development approaches while owning the end to end delivery of projects. In this role you will:

Work on a range of high-performance and low-latency systems, ranging from exchange connectivity, trading algorithms, pricing, and automation.

Collaborate closely with colleagues from within the technology team and other departments including quant and trading to identify and deliver high impact projects.

Be responsible for the full software development life cycle from requirements analysis, design, development, testing, deployment, and post deployment reliability and performance.

Contribute innovative ideas and solutions to the team.

Qualities that make great candidates:

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent technical field

0-2 years' experience, must be graduating by Jul 2027 or prior

Familiarity with modern C++ development and best practices

Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Passion for building high quality software within a fast-moving environment

Familiarity with data structures, algorithms, and lower-level performance optimisation

Familiarity with multi-threaded and distributed systems

Willing to communicate in English at the technical interviews.

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