We are looking for Junior Quantitative Developers to work with a small team of quantitative developers and traders in our Cambridge office. Our projects encompass data collection, analysis, back-testing, and live trading. You will work closely with traders to develop trading strategies from idea to implementation. A successful candidate will be a talented programmer with quantitative skills who enjoys finding elegant solutions to complex problems.

What you’ll do as a Junior Quantitative Developer at Akuna:

• Back-test low-latency and in-house trading strategies
• Build pipelines for large-scale data collection
• Create intuitive data visualizations
• Optimize calculation-intensive code
• Extend a real time trading infrastructure
• Research improvements to our models

Qualities that make great candidates:

• BS/MS/PhD in a technical field – Physics, Math, Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent
• Comfortable working with the Python data analysis stack (numpy, pandas, bokeh, etc.) in a POSIX environment
• Experience delivering complex software projects using engineering best practices
• An ability to work independently and communicate complex technical ideas
• An interest in machine learning, option theory and statistical arbitrage