The Voleon Group

Senior Software Engineer, Execution Engineering

The Voleon Group$130K — $180K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's, Master's, or Doctorate degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
  • 5+ years of experience in high-performance distributed systems
  • Expertise in building cloud-native systems on AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • Experience with data observability tools (e.g., CloudWatch, Grafana)
  • Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., CloudFormation, Terraform)
  • Comfort in containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Strong coding, analytical, debugging, and troubleshooting skills

Responsibilities

  • Design real-time distributed trading systems across global markets
  • Integrate new assets and markets while clarifying requirements
  • Own outcomes and support them through iteration and testing
  • Manage observability and remediation tools for trading performance
  • Enhance the resilience and performance of trading systems
  • Participate in on-call rotations for incident response and analysis
  • Lead cross-team projects and collaborate with non-engineering stakeholders
  • Mentor and develop other engineers and share knowledge

Benefits

  • Collaborative environment that fosters creative thinking and innovation
  • Opportunity to work with experienced engineers from top tech companies
  • Engagement in a culture that embraces experimentation
  • Chance to collaborate closely with top machine learning researchers
  • Potential for significant referral bonuses through the 'Friends of Voleon' program
Full Job Description
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.

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About The Voleon Group

The Voleon Group is a quantitative investment management firm that uses advanced mathematical and statistical techniques to identify and exploit market inefficiencies. The company was founded in 2007 by Michael Kharitonov and Jon McAuliffe and is based in San Francisco, California. Voleon's investment strategies are based on machine learning and artificial intelligence, and the company has a team of over 200 researchers and engineers working to develop and improve its algorithms. Voleon manages several funds, including a long/short equity fund and a futures fund, and has a strong track record of performance. The company is known for its rigorous approach to research and its commitment to transparency and ethical behavior.
Learn more about The Voleon Group
Size
200 employees
Industry
Founded
2007

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