Akuna Capital

Software Engineer - Data Engineering

Chicago, IL · Internship

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 9 days ago

PythonJavaScalaReactDatabricksAWSKubernetesCI/CDKafkaSparkData EngineeringResearchCommunicationCollaborationProblem Solving

About the role

About Akuna: Akuna Capital is an innovative trading firm with a strong focus on collaboration, cutting-edge technology, data driven solutions, and automation.
If you are a current student or recent graduate, please take a look at our Entry Level and Intern positions.

The Akuna Data Engineering team is composed of world-class talent responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the systems, applications, and infrastructure needed to collect, store, process, manage, and query Akuna's data assets.
The Akuna Data Engineering team plays a crucial role in ensuring that trustworthy data is available, reliable, and accessible to support various data-driven initiatives within Akuna's Quant, Trading, and Business Operations business units.
Drive the ongoing design and expansion of our data platform across a wide variety of data sources, supporting an array of streaming, operational and research workflows
Work closely with Trading, Quant, Technology & Business Operations teams throughout the firm to identify how data is produced and consumed, helping to define and deliver high impact projects
Produce clean, well-tested, and documented code with a clear design to support mission critical applications
Build automated data validation test suites that ensure that data is processed and published in accordance with well-defined Service Level Agreements (SLA's) pertaining to data quality, data availability and data correctness
5+ years of professional experience developing software applications
Experience building large-scale batch and streaming pipelines with strict SLA and data quality requirements
Demonstrated experience working on an Agile team employing software engineering best practices, such as GitOps and CI/CD, to deliver complex software projects

Java/Scala experience required - Python experience a significant plus
Prior hands-on experience with data platforms and technologies such as Delta Lake, Spark, Kubernetes, Kafka, ClickHouse, and/or Presto/Trino
Demonstrated experience working with diverse data sets and frameworks across multiple domains - financial data experience not required, but a strong plus
Recent hands-on experience with AWS Cloud development, deployment and monitoring necessary

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.

In accordance with Illinois Equal Pay Act, the minimum base salary starts at $145,000.

We are a data-driven organization, leveraging our data as a key competitive advantage essential to our success.

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