Voleon Senior Software Engineer on the Software Platform team designing and evolving distributed systems powering research and trading workflows. Lead complex projects and provide technical leadership and mentorship.
Responsibilities
We look for engineers who are motivated by solving complex problems through strong fundamentals and thoughtful system design. You’ll work in a highly collaborative environment that values experimentation, clear ownership, and efficient execution. Our team includes experienced engineers from leading technology companies and top academic programs, working closely with infrastructure specialists and machine learning researchers to build resilient, high-leverage systems that power the firm.
Design and implement distributed scheduling and workflow systems
Improve job prioritization, resource allocation, and orchestration across hybrid environments
Build scalable, reliable platform services and storage abstractions
Lead complex projects from design through production delivery
Improve system reliability, observability, and operational performance
Provide technical leadership and mentorship across the team
Lead complex projects from start to finish, which includes gathering project requirements, translating them into a rational software design, reasoning effectively about supporting or dependent technologies, and communicating effectively with collaborators and teammates
Provide technical guidance to engineering and research staff
Mentor and grow individual contributors to continuously up-level the team
Qualification
Computer Science / Engineering degree
Required
Computer Science / Engineering degree, or equivalent experience
5+ years of software engineering experience
Proven track record of software design and implementation with focus on correctness, robustness, efficiency, and scale
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 and APIs, highly-available systems, and/or large-scale data infrastructure
Experience with data storage and management technologies (e.g. PostgreSQL, Artifactory, Ceph, Redis)
Familiarity with job scheduling and orchestration technologies (e.g. Airflow, Slurm)
Familiarity with cloud-based data storage, querying, and processing technologies
Work with large codebases and experience building modular, extensible, and maintainable software
Strong communication skills and a proven ability to explain complex ideas with clarity and simplicity
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Benefits
highly competitive compensation and benefits packages
