Software Engineer - Python, Crypto

Akuna CapitalChicago, IL
Onsite

About The Position

We are seeking a Python Software Engineer to join our Crypto team, focused on building and maintaining the core infrastructure that powers our 24/7 crypto trading operations. The role involves developing and maintaining reliable, highly available, real-time systems that integrate with crypto exchanges, normalize market data, reconcile positions and risk, and support trader-facing applications used in production every day. You will collaborate closely with traders and other engineers to understand the evolving needs of the desk, help shape operational workflows, and advise on the design and implementation of scalable engineering solutions. In this role, you will work on: Data Pipelines: Real-time trade, position, and asset processing. Risk & Finance: P&L reconciliation and real-time risk calculations. Asset Management: Transfer optimization and automated inventory management across exchanges. Tooling: Trader-facing monitoring, alerting, and visualization tools.

Requirements

  • University degree in a technical field (Computer Science, Math, Physics, Engineering) or equivalent practical experience
  • Strong, production-level Python development skills
  • Experience building distributed, real-time, or event-driven applications using technologies such as Kafka, Docker, and Linux-based infrastructure
  • Experience working with trading systems, especially within the Crypto ecosystem
  • Ability to work pragmatically in a fast-paced environment where priorities can shift quickly based on rapidly changing market conditions
  • Ability to react quickly and accurately to rapidly changing market conditions
  • Ability to quickly and accurately respond and/or solve math and coding problems

Nice To Haves

  • Familiarity with C++

Responsibilities

  • Developing and maintaining reliable, highly available, real-time systems that integrate with crypto exchanges
  • Normalizing market data
  • Reconciling positions and risk
  • Supporting trader-facing applications used in production every day
  • Collaborating closely with traders and other engineers to understand the evolving needs of the desk
  • Helping shape operational workflows
  • Advising on the design and implementation of scalable engineering solutions
  • Working on real-time trade, position, and asset processing
  • Working on P&L reconciliation and real-time risk calculations
  • Working on transfer optimization and automated inventory management across exchanges
  • Working on trader-facing monitoring, alerting, and visualization tools

Benefits

  • employer-paid medical
  • dental
  • vision
  • retirement contributions
  • paid time off
  • discretionary performance bonus
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