The Voleon Group

The Voleon Group

Senior Software Engineer, Post-Trade Financial Systems

Berkeley, CA · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 96 days ago
PythonDistributed SystemsMachine LearningPandasAirflowData EngineeringData ScienceProject ManagementAccountingResearchLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoring

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 colleagues will include internationally recognized experts in artificial intelligence and machine learning research as well as highly experienced finance and technology professionals.

Responsibilities

  • Design and optimize robust, scalable data infrastructure and real-time stream processing systems to support historical and live pipelines using tools like Python, Airflow, Go, and Apache Beam
  • Develop and maintain observability and remediation tools to monitor and analyze trading performance and risk, ensuring reliability and transparency in operations
  • Lead efforts to integrate new financial assets and markets, clarifying requirements and ensuring seamless functionality within existing systems
  • Build advanced tooling to unify data from diverse vendors, standardizing symbol mappings to ensure consistency and accuracy across systems
  • Lead complex, company-wide projects by collaborating cross-functionally with research, legal, trading, finance operations, data, and infrastructure teams to deliver comprehensive end-to-end accounting and reporting systems
  • Guide and support the growth of other engineers on the team by mentoring them and sharing your expertise, best practices, and knowledge
  • 5+ years of software engineering experience designing and building high-performance, reliable systems
  • 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.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience in a related technical field
  • Proven expertise in operating and scaling large-scale, mission-critical production systems, with proficiency in programming languages such as Python
  • Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and provide leadership in driving technical direction and system architecture
  • Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from various data sources

Nice to have

  • Experience with profiling and performance optimizations on distributed systems
  • Familiarity with modern Python data science tooling (pandas, polars, dask, duckdb, etc.)
  • Experience with modern data engineering technologies
  • "FRIENDS OF VOLEON" CANDIDATE REFERRAL PROGRAM

Compensation

  • 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.

Benefits

  • 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.
  • As a Senior Software Engineer on our Back Office Engineering team, you will be developing the company's production trading systems and the data pipelines that drive our machine learning in both production and research.
  • You and your team will collaborate closely with top machine learning researchers.

Company info

  • You will be part of a team that loves to succeed together.

Equal opportunity

  • 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.

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