Software Engineer Intern - C++, Summer 2027

<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW256449397 BCX0"> <p><strong><span data-contrast="none">About Akuna</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="none">Akuna Capital is an innovative trading firm with a strong focus on collaboration,&nbsp;cutting-edge&nbsp;technology, data-driven solutions, and automation. We specialize in providing liquidity on a variety of exchanges&nbsp;across various asset classes, primarily as&nbsp;an options market maker. To do this successfully, we&nbsp;build&nbsp;and&nbsp;maintain&nbsp;our own low-latency technologies, including application frameworks, trading strategies, and mathematical models.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="none">Our Founding Partners first conceptualized Akuna in their hometown of Sydney, Australia. 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&nbsp;operate&nbsp;from&nbsp;additional&nbsp;offices around the world:&nbsp;Sydney, Shanghai, Singapore, and London.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="none">What&nbsp;you’ll&nbsp;do as a&nbsp;C++&nbsp;Software Engineer Intern at Akuna:</span></strong><span data-contrast="none">&nbsp;</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="none">C++ software engineer&nbsp;interns at Akuna&nbsp;have the opportunity to&nbsp;work on a variety of high-performance systems that power the firm’s core business operations.&nbsp;Our&nbsp;interns are&nbsp;embedded&nbsp;on small-to-medium-sized teams that&nbsp;frequently&nbsp;interface with Quant and Trading, allowing them to&nbsp;focus on&nbsp;a specific domain area while&nbsp;still experiencing the day-to-day life of an Akuna software engineer. Akuna’s C++ systems are heavily multithreaded, asynchronous, and distributed by nature, which comes with a slew of challenges; our engineers are tasked with ensuring these systems are reliable, efficient, scalable, and flexible enough for even the most niche use cases.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="none">Over their 10-week Akunacademy experience, software engineer interns will work on one or more valuable projects, progressing from ideation and design all the way to delivery and maintenance. These projects range from adding functionality onto existing systems to implementing brand new componentry to experimenting with new technologies and patte