Akuna Capital
Software Engineer - Python, Business Operations
Chicago, IL · Mid
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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.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development efforts for our FP&A Cost Attribution Project
- Build and maintain integrations pulling data from Jira, NetSuite, Device42, and Bitbucket, among other data sources, to support cost attribution logic
- Support the project toward its Q1 2027 deployment target, including schema documentation and handoff materials, and maintain the system once in production
- Lead engineering efforts in support of our Business Operations teams
- Support Finance and HR operations by building data pipelines, automating reports, and integrating systems as needs arise
- Identify and implement native AI features within tools already in use by Procurement, Finance, HR, Compliance, and Risk, such as AI capabilities embedded in NetSuite, Jira, Confluence, or other platforms
- Build custom integrations using APIs, MCP, or comparable protocols to connect large language models to internal systems and workflows
- Evaluate current manual processes across these functions and propose and implement AI-assisted or automated alternatives
- Work with the Security team to maintain security best practices and appropriate data-handling controls when integrating AI tooling with internal or vendor systems
- Professional software development experience (minimum 3-5 years), with demonstrated ability to work as a sole or lead developer on cross-functional projects
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience
- Strong proficiency in a backend language commonly used for data integration and automation work, such as Python
- Version control proficiency with Git and comfort working in a Bitbucket-based environment
Nice to have
- direct experience with PostgreSQL is preferred
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.
- as a Software Engineer - Business Operations at Akuna:
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.
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