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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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Senior Software Engineer - Python (Cryptowatch)

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