C# Developer

Akuna Capital is a proprietary trading firm specializing in derivatives market making and sophisticated modeling with a commitment to cutting edge financial technology. Akuna’s unmatched growth profile and non-client structure provides a unique place for innovation and opportunity in the home of proprietary trading – Chicago.

Akuna is currently seeking a C# Developer to join our growing team. We are looking for a motivated developer who will play a key role in taking our proprietary market-making trading GUIs to the next level. The ideal candidate enjoys working with the latest .Net technologies and tools in a fast paced and collaborative environment. The successful candidate is performance-minded and seeks to question and enhance current architecture beyond his/her responsibilities. He/she will be given a unique level of exposure to an industry-leading team of options traders who participate fully in the design and on-going enhancements to our proprietary trading platform.

• Plan, design and develop high quality desktop and tablet applications
• Propose and deliver scalability and performance enhancements to our GUIs
• Research and incorporate latest features in .NET and WPF to our architecture
• Engage traders and developers and articulate ideas clearly
• Build software using Agile methodologies
• Participate in design sessions and code reviews
• Work on cross-functional teams
• Be mentored by senior developers to learn the trading system and domain

• Computer Science or equivalent degree is required
• 3+ years of experience in developing GUI applications in C#
• Experience with WPF is required
• Exposure to data structures and algorithms
• Familiar with multi-threaded programming paradigms
• Object oriented design and programming
• Options trading industry experience is a plus
• Exposure to unit testing is a plus
• Experience with Windows Forms is a plus