Staff Software Engineer, Back Office

Position Overview

• Location Type: Not Specified
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not Specified

Voleon is a technology company applying state-of-the-art machine learning techniques to real-world problems in finance. They are a multibillion-dollar asset manager with ambitious goals for the future. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Back Office Engineering team, you will be developing the company’s production trading systems and the data pipelines that drive their machine learning efforts. You’ll work closely with both finance and research teams, contributing to a platform supporting diverse requirements and complex trading behaviors.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience in a related technical field.
• 7+ years of software engineering experience designing and building high-performance, reliable systems.
• Proven expertise in operating and scaling large-scale, mission-critical production systems.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python.
• Strong communication and project management skills, particularly in navigating complex technical domains and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and optimize robust, scalable data infrastructure and real-time stream processing systems using tools like Python, Airflow, Go, and Apache Beam.
• Develop and maintain observability and remediation tools to monitor and analyze trading performance and risk.
• Lead efforts to integrate new financial assets and markets, clarifying requirements and ensuring seamless functionality.
• Enhance the resilience, scalability, and performance of accounting and reporting systems.
• Build advanced tooling to unify data from diverse vendors, standardizing symbol mappings for consistency and accuracy.
• Lead complex, company-wide projects by collaborating with research, legal, trading, finance operations, data, and infrastructure teams.
• Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from various data sources.
• Guide and support the growth of other engineers on the team through mentoring and knowledge sharing.

Company Information

Voleon is a technology company that applies state-of-the-art machine learning techniques to real-world problems in finance. They have led their industry for over a decade and work at the frontier of applying machine learning to investment management. They are looking for brilliant people with a passion for solving problems through innovation and engineering fundamentals. They embrace experimentation and encourage a collaborative environment.