Senior Software Engineer - Python (Cryptowatch)
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This is a fully remote role.
Cryptowatch is Kraken's professional charting, trading, and market analysis platform. This is an opportunity for an engineer who is passionate about writing fast, efficient software in Python to join the backend development team. On this team the backend engineering team build new functionality for our clients.
What you will do:
- Build out the Python backend that deals with historical trading data, reconciliation, performance and more (known as “Portfolio”)
- Work closely with frontend developers to design APIs that make sense
- Help write good documentation to ensure the least amount of friction for client developers
About you:
- You are passionate about writing fast, efficient software in Python
- You are comfortable in PostgreSQL
- You have worked on a team before, understand software development methodologies, and write code with maintainability in mind
- You have a security mindset, understand common threats, and how to avoid them
- You are a team player who values pragmatism, transparency, communication and can take feedback
- You are good at async communication and understand the nuances of remote collaboration
- Know the basics of trading, accounting and tax gain/loss computation and relief methodologies
- Know how to optimise for large data sets
- Be familiar with GraphQL, Kubernetes and Django
- Care about Developer Experience
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