Responsibilities
- Own end‑to‑end delivery of internal web applications that power trader monitoring, production‑ops visibility, and research workflows.
- Establish and promote best practices for frontend and web tooling, providing shared frameworks that improve usability and consistency.
- Contribute to the team’s existing areas of responsibility, including integration with new assets and markets, profiling and optimisation of distributed systems, and improving trading system resilience.
- Collaborate closely with researchers, traders, and operations staff to translate complex requirements into reliable engineering solutions.
- Own the reliability of what you ship, participating in incident reviews and driving preventive improvements across the stack.
Requirements
- Computer Science degree or equivalent experience.
- 3+ years of software engineering experience building production systems.
- Strong programming skills in Python.
- Proficiency with JavaScript/TypeScript and at least one modern frontend framework (React, Vue, etc.).
- Experience with APIs and async/concurrent systems.
- Strong problem-solving skills, with attention to performance and reliability.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work across diverse technical domains.
Preferred Qualifications
- Prior experience developing or maintaining internal tooling, particularly for observability, monitoring, or analytics.
- Exposure to fast-moving environments and building internal web tooling from the ground up.
- Experience with containerisation and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
- Familiarity with the Bazel build system.
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.
