Quant jobs / Akuna Capital

Junior Quantitative Developer & Strategist

An entry-level role on the quant team of an options market maker, turning research ideas into production trading code. It sits between researchers, traders and system engineers.

What you’d work on

Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.

Write production code for pricing and execution logic
Add market signals to the trading systems
Profile and speed up existing code
Prototype improvements and propose them to the team

What they ask for

Required

Degree in engineering, CS, maths, physics or similar, completed by start
Strong Python
Object-oriented programming
Linear algebra
Introductory statistics
Willingness to learn financial markets

Preferred

Generic or parallel programming
Numerical methods, optimisation or signal processing
Machine learning or high-performance computing
Some exposure to trading

Education: Bachelor's, master's or PhD in a technical field, completed by start; graduating by August 2027
Experience: New graduates; no finance experience required
Languages and tools: Python
Markets: options, multi-asset

How to prepare

Write clean object-oriented Python with tests
Refresh linear algebra and basic statistics
Learn how option pricing models are implemented in code
Practise profiling and optimising numerical code
Study how a market maker uses signals to quote

What to study

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