Staff Software Engineer, Credit Execution

Position Overview

• Location Type: [Not Specified]
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Salary: $270,000 - $300,000 (Base salary range)

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 Staff Software Engineer on the Credit Execution Engineering team, you will develop the company's production trading systems and data pipelines, working closely with finance and research teams to support diverse requirements and complex trading behaviors. You’ll work in a collaborative environment that encourages creative thinking and efficient implementation, embracing experimentation.

Requirements

• Computer Science Degree or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of software engineering experience building high-performance systems
• Experience operating and scaling mission-critical, large-scale production systems in languages such as Python and Go
• Excellent communication and project management skills in complex technical domains
• Ability to understand user stories and design solutions around real-world requirements
• Track record mentoring engineers and leading technical direction

Responsibilities

• Design real-time distributed trading systems that place orders across global markets and asset classes (Go)
• Own observability and remediation tooling used to analyze trading performance and risk (Go / Python)
• Integrate with new assets and markets and drive clarity on the resulting requirements
• Improve the resilience and performance of our trading systems
• Develop tooling to integrate data from diverse vendors
• Lead complex projects spanning across the company
• Collaborate across research, legal, trading, finance operations data, and infra teams to deliver end-to-end trading systems
• Mentor and develop other engineers on the team, and share your practices and knowledge with the team and company

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise in building and optimizing data pipelines
• Experience with profiling and performance optimizations on highly available systems
• Experience with designing DR-aware robust software solutions
• Exposure to modern Python data science tooling

Compensation

• The base salary range for this position is $270,000 to $300,000 in the location(s) of this posting. Individual salaries are determined through a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and geography. Base salary does not include other forms of total compensation, such as bonus compensation and other benefits.