Responsibilities
- Automate and improve high-stakes business workflows, integrating enterprise systems to ensure robust and compliant operations.
- Guide and support the growth of other engineers on the team by mentoring them and sharing your expertise, best practices, and knowledge.
- Work closely with your colleagues – i.e., your customers – to understand areas for improvement and develop plans.
- Automate and improve partially automated high-stakes business workflows to ensure the success of our business.
- Work with stakeholders and other engineers to design and implement solutions in ambiguous problem spaces.
- Design high-quality systems that work reliably.
Requirements
- 5+ years of backend and/or full-stack software engineering experience.
- Exceptional verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts clearly.
- Proven ability to design, develop, and deploy back-end applications based on provided specifications.
- Strong stakeholder communication skills, effectively engaging with individuals at varying levels of technical fluency.
- Excellent project management abilities, including setting realistic timelines, communicating progress, and delivering on commitments.
- Collaborative mindset, with enthusiasm for working in diverse teams.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline.
- Authorization to work in Canada.
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with modern deployment and build tooling, such as Kubernetes, Bazel, Apache Airflow, etc.
- Experience designing and building applications aimed towards non-technical stakeholders.
Top Skills
What We Do
Founded in 2007 by two machine learning scientists, The Voleon Group is a quantitative hedge fund headquartered in Berkeley, CA. We are committed to solving large-scale financial prediction problems with statistical machine learning.
The Voleon Group combines an academic research culture with an emphasis on scalable architectures to deliver technology at the forefront of investment management. Many of our employees hold doctorates in statistics, computer science, and mathematics, among other quantitative disciplines.
Voleon's CEO holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford and previously founded and led a successful technology startup. Our Chief Investment Officer and Head of Research is Statistics faculty at UC Berkeley, where he earned his Ph.D. Voleon prides itself on cultivating an office environment that fosters creativity, collaboration, and open thinking. We are committed to excellence in all aspects of our research and operations, while maintaining a culture of intellectual curiosity and flexibility.
The Voleon Group is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.
