Software Engineer - Python, Business Operations
Akuna CapitalBase Salary
$145k - $145k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead development of the FP&A Cost Attribution Project, including a bitemporal PostgreSQL database with an extensible, traceable cost-allocation schema.
- Build and maintain integrations with Jira, NetSuite, Device42, Bitbucket, and other internal data sources.
- Support the project through its Q1 2027 deployment target with schema documentation, handoff materials, and production maintenance.
- Lead engineering efforts for Business Operations teams and rebuild Procurement quote order management systems.
- Build data pipelines, automate reports, and integrate systems for Finance and Human Resources.
- Serve as a general-purpose development resource across Procurement, Finance, and HR while coordinating priorities with the Director of Operations.
- Identify and implement native AI features in tools used by Procurement, Finance, HR, Compliance, and Risk.
- Build custom integrations using APIs, MCP, or comparable protocols to connect LLMs with internal systems and workflows.
- Evaluate manual processes and implement AI-assisted or automated alternatives.
- Partner with Security to maintain security best practices and appropriate data-handling controls for AI and vendor-system integrations.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.
- 3–5 years of professional software development experience, including the ability to work as a sole or lead developer on cross-functional projects.
- Strong proficiency in a backend language used for data integration and automation, such as Python, plus strong SQL and relational database design skills.
- PostgreSQL experience is preferred.
- Experience building and consuming REST APIs, including authentication, error handling, and cross-system data transformation.
- Experience integrating with several systems such as Jira/JSM, NetSuite, Bitbucket/Git, and Device42, or transferable equivalents.
- Hands-on experience integrating Anthropic, OpenAI, or similar LLM/AI APIs into applications or workflows, including prompt construction and structured and unstructured output handling.
- Version control proficiency with Git and comfort working in a Bitbucket-based environment.
- Clear communication of technical concepts and tradeoffs to non-technical Finance, Procurement, and HR stakeholders.
- Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities across multiple business functions, and operate with minimal direct technical oversight.
- Prior experience in financial services, trading, or another data- and compliance-sensitive industry is preferred.
- Experience with cost allocation, chargeback, or FinOps-style frameworks is preferred.
- Experience building internal tools or dashboards for non-technical business users is preferred.
- Exposure to procurement or vendor management systems is preferred.
- Ability to respond quickly and accurately to changing market conditions and solve math and coding problems.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package that may include employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage, retirement contributions, and paid time off.
About Akuna Capital
Akuna Capital is an innovative trading firm with a strong focus on cutting-edge technology, data driven decisions and automation. Our core competency is providing liquidity as an options market-maker – meaning we provide competitive quotes that we are willing to both buy and sell. To do this successfully we design and implement our own low latency technologies, trading strategies and mathematical models. Our Founding Partners first conceptualized Akuna in their hometown of Sydney. 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, and London. We are the leading options market-maker to successfully enter the industry in recent years with sustainable growth. By providing more liquidity to the markets through rapid innovation, we have the advantage of youth in remaining nimble and agile in an ever-changing competitive landscape. Akuna has no clients or external investors, we trade only with the company’s capital. We have dozens of employee-shareholders and this number continues to grow. We are really proud of what we have accomplished since inception, but even more excited for all that lies ahead of us. We are still building, accessing new markets, trading new products, and creating new strategies, giving you the opportunity to be involved in shaping the future of Akuna. Indeed, the great majority of Akuna’s growth profile is ahead of us. Visit Us: A 360 Virtual Reality Experience: https://vr.akunacapital.com