Job Summary:
Akuna Capital is an innovative trading firm focused on collaboration and cutting-edge technology. They are seeking a Software Engineer for their Data Engineering team to design and maintain systems for managing data assets, ensuring data is reliable and accessible for various business units.
Responsibilities:
• Work within a growing Data Engineering division supporting the strategic role of data at Akuna
• 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
• Build and deploy batch and streaming pipelines to collect and transform our rapidly growing Big Data set within our hybrid cloud architecture utilizing Kubernetes/EKS, Kafka/MSK and Databricks/Spark.
• Mentor junior engineers in software and data engineering best practices
• 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
• Challenge the status quo and help push our organization forward, as we grow beyond the limits of our current tech stack
Qualifications:
Required:
• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Math, or equivalent technical field
• 5+ years of professional experience developing software applications
• Java/Scala experience required – Python experience a significant plus
• Highly motivated and willing to take ownership of high-impact projects upon arrival
• Prior hands-on experience with data platforms and technologies such as Delta Lake, Spark, Kubernetes, Kafka, ClickHouse, and/or Presto/Trino
• Experience building large-scale batch and streaming pipelines with strict SLA and data quality requirements
• Must possess excellent communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• 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
• Demonstrated experience working on an Agile team employing software engineering best practices, such as GitOps and CI/CD, to deliver complex software projects
• The ability to react quickly and accurately to rapidly changing market conditions, including the ability to quickly and accurately respond and/or solve math and coding problems are essential functions of the role
Company:
Akuna Capital is a proprietary trading firm specializing in derivatives market-making. Founded in 2011, the company is headquartered in Chicago, USA, with a team of 201-500 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.