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Job description
## About Akuna: Akuna Capital is an innovative trading firm with a strong focus on collaboration, cutting-edge technology, data driven solutions, and automation. We specialize in providing liquidity as an options market-maker – meaning we are committed to providing 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 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, London and Singapore.
Responsibilities
## What you’ll do as a Broker Trader at Akuna:
- Make markets on options for brokers and banks through chat and voice platforms.
- Identify opportunities in the marketplace that will be represented in the team’s P&L.
- Work in a collaborative and comprehensive team environment.
- Learn systems and trading style from experienced traders.
Requirements
## Qualities that make great candidates:
- 2+ years of options market making experience in equities/index.
- Entrepreneurial self-starter ready to work in a fast paced, team environment.
- Strong mathematical aptitude to maximize trading opportunities in a high-pressure environment.
- Effective and efficient communication and superior interpersonal skills.
- Capable of developing and maintaining strong working business relationships.
- Ability to work alongside and communicate with screen traders.
- Passion for problem-solving and finding creative solutions in an ever-changing market.
- Existing business relationships with inter-dealer, floor or direct counterparty brokers and paper flow.
- Ability to react quickly and accurately to rapidly changing market conditions.
Conditions
## What Akuna offers:
- Minimum base salary starts at $145,000.
- Discretionary performance bonus as part of the total compensation package.
- Comprehensive benefits package including employer-paid medical, dental, vision, retirement contributions, paid time off, and other benefits.
About Akuna Capital
Akuna Capital is an American proprietary trading firm specializing in options market making, providing liquidity through competitive buy and sell quotes using proprietary low-latency technologies, trading strategies, and mathematical models. It operates with its own capital, has no clients or external investors, and focuses on collaboration across technology, trading, quant, and operations departments. Founded by partners from Sydney, it emphasizes innovation in derivatives trading.