Akuna Capital is looking for an experienced Developer to join our growing development team and enhance our risk monitoring systems. This system is responsible for live monitoring of all our trading activities and basic risk views. This is a foundational piece of our infrastructure and the right applicant will bring an interest in writing clean and maintainable code, building large complex systems, and database development.

This person will work closely with our Head of Risk, Risk Analyst, Quants, Developers, and Traders, and will be responsible for delivering highly performant intraday and end of day risk reporting for all desks to manage their portfolio. This is a brand-new and exciting opportunity for anyone that is looking to have ownership over, and be responsible for, bringing new projects to life.

What you’ll do as a Developer at Akuna:

• Data retrieval, processing, validation and modeling
• Work with various data sources/ inputs using Python
• Experience of the full software development life cycle (requirements analysis, design, development, unit testing, deployment, and maintenance)
• Owning the risk reporting framework
• Work alongside our risk and compliance teams
• Respond to regulator and exchange inquiries
• Work with traders and trading platform developers on risk work

Qualities that make great candidates:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math or equivalent
• 3+ years working with Python in a professional production environment
• Experience using SQL to work with large datasets a plus
• Must have strong writing and verbal communication skills and must be able to work in a team environment
• Excellent organizational skills and work ethic
• Exposure to trading and finance is an asset