Development Internship - Data Tooling, Summer 2023
About Akuna:
Akuna Capital is a young and booming 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, including Akuna's CEO 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 Sydney, Shanghai, Boston, London and Austin.
What you’ll do as a Development Intern on the Data Tooling Team at Akuna:
We are seeking Development Interns to join our innovative and growing technology team for our 10-week internship Akunacademy. At Akuna, we believe that our data provides a key competitive advantage and is a critical part to the success of our business. The goal of the Data Team is to “provide simple access to clean data,” and the Data Tooling team is primarily focused on the “simple access” portion.
Our platform starts with gathering data from disparate sources across the globe and ends with our users across Trading, Research and Development staff accessing complex datasets for a wide range of streaming and batch use cases. In this role you will:
- Work closely with developers, researchers, and traders to 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
- Work with the Data Infrastructure team to provide users simple access to the data platform
Qualities that make great candidates:
- Pursuing a BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Physics or related field
- Strong knowledge of computer science fundamentals
- Clear understanding of both object oriented and functional programming paradigms
- Familiarity with Python
- 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
- Must be graduating by August 2024 or prior
- Major GPA of 3.0 or above
- 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
Please note: if you have applied to multiple roles, you will be asked to complete multiple coding challenges and interviews.