Financial Market Specialist

1 week ago


Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Akuna Capital Full time
About Us
Akuna Capital is a pioneering trading firm that excels in collaboration, cutting-edge technology, data-driven solutions, and automation. We specialize in providing liquidity as an options market maker – offering competitive quotes that we are willing to both buy and sell. To achieve 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 prevails.

Our Founding Partners conceptualized Akuna in their hometown of Sydney. They established the firm's first office in 2011 in the heart of the derivatives industry and the options capital of the world – Chicago. Today, Akuna operates from offices in Sydney, Shanghai, Singapore, Boston, and London.

Your Role
We are seeking Traders with market-making experience to join our dynamic team in Sydney. The ideal candidate will be a motivated individual with a desire to make an immediate impact at a growing firm. Akuna Capital is committed to mentoring new Traders to help them apply their prior experience to the problems we're solving.

As a Delta One Trader, you will leverage your previous experience in a market making environment with our proprietary technology to quickly add value to our growing market making business.

Key Qualities
The following qualities make great candidates:
  1. At least 2 years of relevant work experience
  2. Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Actuarial Science, or a related/equivalent field
  3. Strong math aptitude, numerical and quantitative analysis skills
  4. Entrepreneurial self-starter ready to work in a fast-paced, team environment
  5. Passionate about problem-solving and finding creative solutions in an ever-changing market
  6. The ability to communicate effectively and efficiently while fostering external professional relationships
  7. Detail-oriented
  8. Proficiency in Python required, C++ experience is a plus


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