Jobs at Akuna Capital

• Conduct deep fundamental research on companies, industries, and corporate events to develop differentiated views the desk can trade
• Own the desk's information edge by tracking earnings, guidance, corporate actions, and market-moving news so the desk is informed before it matters

• Lead the development efforts for our FP&A Cost Attribution Project

Serve as lead developer for the development of a bitemporal PostgreSQL database that enables traceable cost allocation, with a schema designed to become more granular as business requirements evolve
Build and maintain integrations pulling data from Jira, NetSuite, Device42, and Bitbucket, among other data sources, to support cost attribution logic
Support the project toward its Q1 2027 deployment target, including schema documentation and handoff materials, and maintain the system once in production

• Perform analysis of security incidents and threat actors utilizing the MITRE ATT&CK framework to enhance detection capabilities
• Investigate and respond to security incidents reported by the Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP), security controls, and end users, while developing effective triage processes to ensure prompt and thorough incident handling

• Ensure cloud services are leveraged to their full potential (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and best practices are being followed
• Help manage our public cloud growth and continuously improve Akuna’s hybrid-cloud operating model

• Design and develop data capture pipelines to enable the pricing of a variety of sports contracts (match outcomes, player props, in-game events)
• Develop and calibrate pricing models using historical data in service of in-play quoting of sports contracts.

• Contribute to the design and implementation of our trading engine by increasing its performance with projects such as benchmarking systems, evaluating new devices, latency, and throughput analysis
• Develop tools and applications for benchmarking new devices and software

• Develop trading strategies using statistical and machine learning algorithms
• Drive improvements in predictive models through rigorous signal and feature research

• Ask insightful and targeted questions to determine project scope, goals, timelines, resourcing needs, and deliverables.
• Proactively identify potential risks and challenges ahead of time to keep projects on track and prevent unforeseen obstacles

• Design and develop production code for trading strategies, including pricing models, execution logic, and performance optimization while collaborating closely with researchers, traders, and system engineers.
• Analyze and incorporate market signals into our trading systems to enhance decision-making and ...