The Voleon Group

Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Data Engineering Team

The Voleon Group$130K — $180K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent
  • 5+ years of software engineering experience
  • Strong software design and implementation skills with focus on efficiency and scale
  • Experience with large codebases and modular software development
  • Proficiency in languages like Python, Go, Java, or C++
  • Hands-on experience in Linux/UNIX environments
  • Experience in designing scalable services and robust data infrastructure

Responsibilities

  • Engage in diverse software development tasks, including data processing and delivery systems
  • Support trading operations with high-quality data delivery
  • Build scalable ingestion and distribution systems with fault tolerance
  • Lead complex projects from requirements gathering to stakeholder communication
  • Provide technical guidance to engineering and research teams
  • Mentor teammates to foster professional growth

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with a team of engineers from leading tech companies
  • Collaborative environment encouraging creativity and experimentation
  • Focus on personal and team growth through mentorship
  • Strong emphasis on team culture of kindness and support
  • Engagement with machine learning researchers for impactful projects
Full Job Description
Your Team

As a Senior or Staff Software Engineer on our Data Engineering team, you will contribute to scaling and advancing our entire data operation. This includes procurement and ingestion of new datasets, enabling the use of data in research and production environments, building data-related systems and tooling, and collaborating closely with various teams to facilitate data consumption. You will work with our team lead to design, scope, and deliver large scale projects within the team. You will collaborate closely with a diverse group of engineers, and directly impact the team's productivity and successful delivery. You will help to define the team's technical roadmap towards achieving strategic-level engineering goals. You'll participate in mentorship and development of other engineers on the team, and shaping our company's engineering culture.

We seek brilliant thinkers who are passionate about taming complexity and solving problems through innovation and rigorous engineering. You'll work in a collaborative environment that encourages creativity and experimentation, and values efficiency and attention to detail. Our engineers come from leading technology companies and top academic programs. Our team partners closely with machine learning researchers. We pride ourselves on being kind, friendly, and down-to-earth, and look for people who share those qualities.

Responsibilities
  • Engage and collaborate in diverse software development work, including design and implementation of data processing technologies, sourcing and delivery systems and pipelines, development of data related tools and libraries, and more.
  • Support our trading operations and promote our research effort through reliable delivery of high-quality data.
  • Build scalable and robust ingestion and distribution systems, and fault-tolerant production-critical pipelines.
  • Lead complex projects from start to finish, including gathering requirements, creating a robust software design, reasoning about supporting or dependent technologies, and communicating effectively with stakeholders, collaborators, and teammates.
  • Provide technical guidance to engineering and research staff.
  • Provide mentorship and support to help grow your teammates and up-level the team.


Requirements
  • Computer Science / Engineering bachelor's degree (or equivalent)
  • 5+ years of relevant software engineering experience
  • Proven track record of software design and implementation with focus on correctness, robustness, efficiency, and scale
  • Experience working with large codebases and building modular, extensible, and maintainable software
  • Expertise in a modern programming language, such as Python, Go, Java or C++
  • Hands-on experience developing in a Linux/UNIX environment
  • Design and implementation of scalable services, highly-available systems, and/or robust data infrastructure
  • Strong communication skills and a knack for explaining complex ideas with clarity and simplicity


Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience with data storage and management technologies (e.g. PostgreSQL, Artifactory, Ceph, Redis)
  • Cluster management and containerization technologies (e.g. Kubernetes, Docker)
  • Job scheduling and orchestration technologies (e.g. Airflow, Slurm)


"Friends of Voleon" Candidate Referral 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
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Founded
2007

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