Akuna Capital

Akuna Capital

Software Engineer - Data Engineering

Chicago, IL · Senior · Internship

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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.

Responsibilities

  • 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

Requirements

  • Prior hands-on experience with data platforms and technologies such as Delta Lake, Spark, Kubernetes, Kafka, ClickHouse, and/or Presto/Trino
  • Recent hands-on experience with AWS Cloud development, deployment and monitoring necessary

Nice to have

  • Java/Scala experience required - Python experience a significant plus
  • Demonstrated experience working with diverse data sets and frameworks across multiple domains - financial data experience not required, but a strong plus

Skills

  • 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.

Compensation

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

Company info

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