Akuna Capital
2022/23 User Interface (UI) Internship (Nov 2022)
Australia
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Opportunity details
- Internship, Clerkship or Placement
- AUD 100000 / Year
- $100,000 + super
- 2-6 vacancies
- Apply by 15 Jul 2022
- Start date 27 Nov 2022
What youโll do as a User Interface (UI) Intern at Akuna:
Our UI Developers are innovative, self-starters, and strong communicators. They are driven, adaptable, and creative problem solvers that make a real impact at Akuna. Our Developers work closely in a team-based approach with our trading and quant teams to design and implement elegant solutions to complex and interesting problems. We believe that teamwork is vital for success in this industry.
The UI Team uses cutting-edge technology while working on high performance/low latency systems. If you are excited to jump in and make a difference, Akuna could be the place for you!
Our UI Desktop Team fine-tunes our existing systems and works towards developing our next-gen UI solutions. The team uses C# to create multithreaded user interfaces which handle high volumes of data and provide traders with a real-time view of the markets. Performance is key and weโre always looking for more efficient and innovative ways to view the markets and provide applications that help traders in understanding market conditions and assessing risk.
To join this team, we are looking for candidates with an interest in user interface technologies and UX, as well as experience using a C-style object-oriented programming language: C#, Java, and/or C++.
Internship dates: 10 weeks from November 2022 โ to February 2023
This is a paid internship with an annual salary of $100K AUD pro-rata for the summer. We, further, provide travel and housing for anyone not living in Sydney.
Training: This internship will include a mixture of Akunacademy training sessions, project work, and mentoring opportunities- you will also be introduced to the Development Training Program. This program will teach you everything you need to know about the trading industry, financial theories, and options market making. You will have lectures, workshops, and intensive sessions to develop your coding skills, learn about our systems and build your technical skills. You will also be paired with a mentor to work together on your first project, and we offer extensive training to learn about market making, our systems, and financial theories.
Requirements for this role:
- Australian or NZ citizen or an Australian Permanent resident
- University Degree graduating between August 2023 and January 2024
- Ability to code in your chosen language C# or Java
- Strong understanding of algorithms and data structures
- Passion for innovation and building systems from the ground up
- Analytical problem-solving and adaptability
- Self-starter attitude with the ability to work independently
- Ability to work in a fast-paced team environment
- Strong verbal and written communication skills to obtain requirements and find solutions
Qualities that make great candidates:
- Bachelor, Honours, Masters or PhDs in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, or related degrees
- Distinction average & proven strong academics
- Awards, prizes, medals, competitions, & scholarships
- Achievements outside of studies through your hobbies & interests
Hiring criteria
- No experience required
- Australian Citizen +more
- Engineering & Mathematics +more
- Associate Degree or higher
Reviews
It is a mix of keeping old systems alive and trying to build new systems on infrastructure.
Working on the Vals/Quant team, my role involves both bridging the gap between our quant research work and our prop systems as well as building mechanisms to improve our research capability.
As a trader, I'm responsible for overseeing our automated trading systems. This includes making sure it's behaving the way we'd expect, working with Devs on bugs to fix, or testing new features to implement. I also conduct research on potential new opportunities, and build tools to help us capitalize on those opportunities. It's exciting to know that my actions daily have a clear and noticeable impact on the bottom line.
About the employer
Akuna Capital
4.4
100 - 500 employees
Trading
Akuna Capital is an innovative trading firm with a strong focus on collaboration, cutting-edge technology, data driven solutions and automation.
Pros and cons of working at Akuna Capital
Pros
There's a really diverse range of backgrounds, so there's always an opportunity to have interesting conversations. The work itself is challenging and fun.
The people. Everyone is highly motivated and super intelligent.
I've been given the freedom to work on projects I find particularly interesting. As Iโve improved, Iโve been given more responsibility and trust, and itโs rewarding to know that I contribute significantly to the company.
Working with some of the smartest and most driven people. Unique insight into an opaque industry. Very intellectual culture. Decent Work-Life-Balance for "high finance"
Collaborative environment, interesting work, flat work hierarchy, meritocracy, well compensated
Cons
Weird/late hours sometimes.
Steep learning curve, intense work and high expectations can be challenging.
Intense atmosphere sometimes causes stress
A bit of a steep learning curve because you need to learn so much so quickly