The Voleon Group

Staff Software Engineer, Strategy Platform

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

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in backend, data pipelines, or platform engineering.
  • Experience managing platform systems relied upon by other teams.
  • Proven ability to make decomposition decisions in active systems.
  • Strong debugging skills and a knack for understanding complex codebases.
  • Computer Science degree or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, operate, and evolve significant platform components.
  • Manage data access, validation, orchestration, and cataloging.
  • Create smooth deployment processes for research to production transition.
  • Develop tooling for unifying data from various vendors.
  • Support data pipelines meeting strict latency and accuracy standards.
  • Coordinate platform migrations to shared abstractions with minimal disruption.
  • Lead cross-departmental projects involving data integration and observability.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on a central platform team involved in critical trading infrastructure.
  • Engagement in diverse projects spanning multiple departments.
  • Focus on cutting-edge ML-driven trading strategies.
  • Support for professional growth in a rapidly scaling company.
Full Job Description
Strategy Platform owns the infrastructure between quantitative research and live trading. Our systems orchestrate the transformation of external market data into features consumed by ML-driven trading strategies, manage strategy deployments from research handoff through production, and provide the tooling that lets researchers iterate quickly without compromising production reliability.

This is a central platform team. We are consolidating and unifying systems that grew organically to serve different parts of the trading lifecycle, building and migrating to shared abstractions across data ingestion, feature computation, deployment and production trading operations. The team balances deep knowledge of how our trading strategies operate with building foundational layers that support the company's continued rapid growth.

The Role

You will own significant pieces of our platform end to end: designing, building, operating, and evolving them. Concretely:
  • Own how data is accessed, validated, orchestrated, and catalogued across research and production
  • Engineer smooth deployment processes for research experiments into production
  • Develop tooling to integrate data from diverse vendors, unifying symbol mappings for data consistency
  • Support data pipelines with strong temporal semantics under a range of latency and correctness requirements
  • Sequence platform migrations that move the firm toward shared abstractions while minimizing disruption to active trading systems
  • Lead complex projects spanning the company, collaborating across research, legal, trading, finance operations, data, and infrastructure teams
  • Build tooling to support integration with new assets and markets
  • Improve observability across the strategy lifecycle, including data cataloguing, experiment tracking, and production SLAs


You might be a good fit if you have
  • 5+ years of experience in backend, data pipelines, or platform engineering
  • Owned platform systems that other teams depend on daily, made real decomposition decisions (data access layers, API versioning, data models, migration sequencing), and improved those systems while they were actively in use
  • Strong debugging and observability instincts. You orient quickly in unfamiliar codebases and datasets, particularly across data pipelines with many upstream sources and downstream consumers
  • Computer Science Degree, or equivalent experience


Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience with Airflow, Dagster, Spark, Iceberg, Trino, Flink, or similar data infrastructure
  • Familiarity with ML infrastructure patterns (feature stores, model serving, experiment tracking)
  • Python Fluency


"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
Industry
Founded
2007

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