Software Engineer - Python, Business Operations

About Akuna:
Akuna Capital is an innovative trading firm with a strong focus on collaboration, cutting-edge technology, data driven solutions, and automation. 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. To do this successfully, we design and implement our own low latency technologies, trading strategies, and mathematical models.

Our Founding Partnersfirst 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, London, and Singapore. What you'll do as a Software Engineer - Business Operations at Akuna:
This role is the primary ongoing development resource for Business Operations technology, primarily supporting Procurement, Finance, and Human Resources. The current priority is a data infrastructure project that consolidates cost data from several internal systems into a unified cost-attribution framework, but the role is not scoped to that project alone - it will take on a broadening range of development work across these functions over time.

A defining requirement of this role is applying AI capabilities - through native AI features in existing tools, API integrations, and protocols such as MCP (Model Context Protocol) - to improve data workflows, reporting, and operational processes across these functions. In this role, you will:  Lead the development efforts for our FP&A Cost Attribution Project Serve as lead developer for the development of a bitemporal PostgreSQL database that enables traceable cost allocation, with a schema designed to become more granular as business requirements evolve

Build and maintain integrations pulling data from Jira, Net Suite, Device
42, 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

Work with the Procurement team to rebuild the current quote order management systems

Support Finance and HR operations by building data pipelines, automating reports, and integrating systems as needs arise

Act as a general-purpose development resource across these functions, prioritizing work in coordination with the Director of Operations Identify and implement native AI features within tools already in use by Procurement, Finance, HR, Compliance, and Risk, such as AI capabilities embedded in Net Suite, 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

Qualities that make great candidates:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience

Professional software development experience (minimum 3-5 years), with demonstrated ability to work as a sole or lead developer on cross-functional projects

Strong proficiency in a backend language commonly used for data integration and automation work, such as Python Strong SQL skills and relational database design experience; direct experience with PostgreSQL is preferred

Demonstrated experience building and consuming REST…