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Senior Software Engineer, Execution Engineering

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Doctorate degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
  • 5+ years of software engineering experience architecting and operationalizing high-performance, scalable, reliable, and resilient distributed systems
  • Proven expertise in building cloud-native, distributed systems on AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • Demonstrated experience with modern cloud technologies and data observability tools

Responsibilities

  • Design real-time distributed trading systems that place orders across a global set of markets and asset classes
  • Integrate with new assets and markets and drive clarity on the resulting requirements
  • Take ownership of entire outcomes, and continue to support and grow them through iteration, documentation, and testing
  • Improve the resilience and performance of our trading systems

About the company

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The Voleon Group

Investment Management

Founded in 2007 by two machine learning scientists, The Voleon Group is a quantitative hedge fund headquartered in Berkeley, CA. We are committed to solving large-scale financial prediction problems with statistical machine learning. The Voleon Group combines an academic research culture with an emphasis on scalable architectures to deliver technology at the forefront of investment management. Many of our employees hold doctorates in statistics, computer science, and mathematics, among other quantitative disciplines. Voleon's CEO holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford and previously founded and led a successful technology startup. Our Chief Investment Officer and Head of Research is Statistics faculty at UC Berkeley, where he earned his Ph.D. Voleon prides itself on cultivating an office environment that fosters creativity, collaboration, and open thinking. We are committed to excellence in all aspects of our research and operations, while maintaining a culture of intellectual curiosity and flexibility. 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.

Company details

Company typeSME
IndustryInvestment Management
Company size51 - 200

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Job description

Voleon is a technology company that applies state-of-the-art AI and machine learning techniques to real-world problems in finance. For nearly two decades, 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.

Your Team

As a Senior Software Engineer on our Execution 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 will be expected to work closely with both our traders and research teams to contribute to a platform that supports a diverse set of requirements and complex trading behaviors.

 

We look for brilliant people with a passion for solving problems through innovation and engineering fundamentals. 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.

Responsibilities

  • Design real-time distributed trading systems that place orders across a global set of markets and asset classes

  • Integrate with new assets and markets and drive clarity on the resulting requirements

  • Take ownership of entire outcomes, and continue to support and grow them through iteration, documentation, and testing

  • Own observability and remediation tooling used to analyze trading performance and risk

  • Improve the resilience and performance of our trading systems

  • Participate in on-call rotations and drive incident response, root-cause analysis, and postmortems

  • Lead projects spanning a number of engineering teams and collaborate with non engineering stakeholders

  • Mentor and develop other engineers on the team, and share your practices and knowledge with the team and company

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Doctoret degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience) 

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience architecting and operationalizing high-performance, scalable, reliable, and resilient distributed systems

  • Proven expertise in building cloud-native, distributed systems on any one of AWS, Azure, or GCP

  • Demonstrated experience with modern cloud technologies and data observability tools (e.g., CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus), and Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., CloudFormation, Terraform)

  • Experience designing telemetry standards (structured logs, metrics, distributed traces) and building dashboards and actionable alerting

  • Comfortable working in a containerized environment with Docker, Kubernetes, etc

  • Strong coding, analytical, debugging, and troubleshooting skills including use of industry standard tools

  • Great at communicating and influencing stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

  • Familiarity with the trading domain; experience in trading/execution systems (Order Management Systems, market data, order lifecycle)

  • Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and support decision-making

  • Track record mentoring engineers and leading technical direction

 

“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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