As a Staff Software Engineer, you will develop trading systems and data pipelines, work with finance and research teams, and mentor engineers.
Voleon is a technology company that applies state-of-the-art AI and machine learning techniques to real-world problems in finance. For more than a decade, we have led our industry and worked at the frontier of applying AI/ML to investment management. We have become a multibillion-dollar asset manager, and we have ambitious goals for the future.
As a Staff Software Engineer on our Credit Execution Engineering team, you will be developing the company's production trading systems and data pipelines. You will be expected to work closely with both our finance and research teams to contribute to a platform that supports a diverse set of requirements and complex trading behaviors.
Your Team
We look for responsible people with a passion for solving problems. You’ll work in a collaborative environment that encourages creative thinking and efficient implementation. We embrace experimentation. You’ll work alongside experienced engineers recruited from leading technology companies and universities. You and your team will collaborate closely with top machine learning researchers.
Your colleagues will include internationally recognized experts in artificial intelligence and machine learning research as well as highly experienced finance and technology professionals. The people who shape our company come from other backgrounds, including concert music performances, humanitarian aid, opera singing, sports writing, and BMX racing. You will be part of a team that loves to succeed together.
In addition to our enriching and collegial working environment, we offer highly competitive compensation and benefits packages, technology talks by our experts, a beautiful modern office, daily catered lunches, and more.
Responsibilities
- Design real-time distributed trading systems that place orders across global markets and asset classes (Go)
- Own observability and remediation tooling used to analyze trading performance and risk (Go / Python)
- Integrate with new assets and markets and drive clarity on the resulting requirements
- Improve the resilience and performance of our trading systems
- Develop tooling to integrate data from diverse vendors
- Lead complex projects spanning across the company. Collaborate across research, legal, trading, finance operations data, and infra teams to deliver end-to-end trading systems
- Mentor and develop other engineers on the team, and share your practices and knowledge with the team and company
Requirements
- Computer Science Degree or equivalent experience
- 7+ years of software engineering experience building high-performance systems
- Experience operating and scaling mission-critical, large-scale production systems in languages such as Python and Go
- Excellent communication and project management skills in complex technical domains
- Ability to understand user stories and design solutions around real-world requirements
- Track record mentoring engineers and leading technical direction
Preferred Qualifications
- Expertise in building and optimizing data pipelines
- Experience with profiling and performance optimizations on highly available systems
- Experience with designing DR-aware robust software solutions
- Exposure to modern Python data science tooling
Compensation
The base salary range for this position is $270,000 to $300,000 in the location(s) of this posting. Individual salaries are determined through a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and geography. Base salary does not include other forms of total compensation, such as bonus compensation and other benefits. Our benefits package includes medical, dental, and vision coverage, life and AD&D insurance, 20 days of paid time off, 9 sick days, and a 401(k) plan with a company match.
“Friends of Voleon” Candidate Referral Program
If you have a great candidate in mind for this role and would like to have the potential to earn $15,000 if your referred candidate is successfully hired and employed by The Voleon Group, please use this form to submit your referral. For more details regarding eligibility, terms, and conditions, please make sure to review the Voleon Referral Bonus Program.
Equal Opportunity Employer
The Voleon Group is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.
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Top Skills
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