Voleon
Senior Software Engineer, Strategy Research Analytics
Remote, United States · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$15k-$500kDetected 81 days ago
PythonSQLAWSLinuxMachine LearningSparkAirflowData ScienceIncident ResponseResearch
About the role
- Voleon is a technology company that applies state-of-the-art AI and machine learning techniques to real-world problems in finance.
- We have become a multibillion-dollar asset manager, and we have ambitious goals for the future.
- Your Team The Research Analytics team sits within Research Engineering and works closely with Data Scientists and Researchers across all of Voleon's core strategies.
Responsibilities
- Own implementation and on-going operation of recurring analytics pipelines (e.g., Airflow DAGs) including monitoring, alerting, and reliability improvements
- Lead architectural evolution of the analytics platform, including schema standardization, DAG consolidation, and modernization of legacy workflows
- Drive cross-team technical alignment when consolidating duplicated or inconsistent analytics outputs
- Build and maintain base analytics tables and metrics with strong schema discipline and reproducible computation
- Define and implement reliability standards (SLOs, observability patterns, runbooks) adopted across analytics pipelines
- Optimize distributed compute and SQL query performance; design data layouts (partitioning, file sizing) for columnar storage
- Mentor engineers through design reviews and raise the bar for operational and modeling rigor
- As a Senior Software Engineer in Strategy Research Analytics, you will lead the design, evolution, and long-term architecture of Voleon's analytics infrastructure supporting research reporting and analysis across strategies.
- You will own critical recurring analytics pipelines and foundational datasets, while guiding the transition from fragmented, bespoke workflows toward a standardized, observable, and query-native analytics platform.
- In addition to hands-on implementation, you will shape technical direction, establish reliability standards, and drive consolidation efforts that improve consistency, scalability, and reproducibility across research analytics systems.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience
- 6+ years of experience building and operating analytics or data infrastructure systems
- Strong proficiency in Python and SQL
- Deep experience with distributed query engines and large-scale compute systems
- Expertise in metadata management, data lineage, and applying robust data governance principles
Nice to have
- Experience leading architectural migrations or major refactors of data platforms
- Familiarity with AWS cloud technologies and on-prem compute clusters (e.g., Slurm, SSH, Unix)
- "Friends of Voleon" Candidate Referral Program
Compensation
- $15k-$500k
Company info
- Stabilize existing analytics pipelines to ensure critical data is available for our data scientist and research partners
- Implement monitoring/alerting and operational runbooks; participate in incident response and postmortems
- Standardize outputs from strategy workflows into a unified analytics schema (tables, metrics definitions, partitioning strategy)
- Improve dataset discoverability via documentation, schema contracts, and metadata/lineage primitives
- Optimize query performance and cost for distributed engines (Presto/Spark) and columnar formats (Parquet/ORC)
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.
- 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.
Visa & Work Authorization
- ational 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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