Staff Software Engineer, Securities Engineering

Posted 21 Days Ago
2 Locations
Remote
Hybrid
225K-255K Annually
Senior level
Financial Services
The Role
As a Senior Software Engineer at Voleon, you'll develop production trading systems and data pipelines for machine learning applications. You'll collaborate with finance and research teams, optimize trading performance, and mentor other engineers. The role demands expertise in high-performance systems and strong communication skills.
Summary Generated by Built In

Voleon is a technology company that applies state-of-the-art machine-learning techniques to real-world problems in finance. For more than a decade, we have led our industry and worked at the frontier of applying machine learning to investment management. We have become a multibillion-dollar asset manager, and we have ambitious goals for the future. 


As a Staff Software Engineer on our Securities Engineering team, you will be developing the company's production trading systems and the data pipelines that drive our machine learning in both production and research. You will be expected to work closely with both our finance and research teams to contribute to a platform that supports a diverse set of requirements and complex trading behaviors.


Your Team


We look for brilliant people with a passion for solving problems through innovation and engineering fundamentals. You’ll work in a collaborative environment that encourages creative thinking and efficient implementation. We embrace experimentation. You’ll work alongside experienced engineers recruited from leading technology companies and universities. You and your team will collaborate closely with top machine learning researchers.

Responsibilities

  • Design real-time distributed trading systems that place orders across a global set of markets and asset classes (Go / C++)
  • Build and optimize large-scale data infrastructure and stream processing systems for historical and real-time machine learning feature pipelines (Python/Airflow/Go/beam)
  • Own observability and remediation tooling used to analyze trading performance and risk (Go / Python / React)
  • 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, unifying symbol mappings for data consistency
  • Lead company spanning complex projects. 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

Requirements

  • Computer Science Degree or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years of software engineering experience building high-performance systems
  • Experience operating and scaling mission-critical, large-scale production systems in languages such as Python, Go and C++
  • Excellent communication and project management skills in complex technical domains
  • Track record mentoring engineers and leading technical direction

Preferred Qualifications

  • Expertise in building and optimizing data pipelines (e.g., Apache Airflow, Spark, Kafka)
  • Experience with profiling and performance optimizations on distributed systems. (Go / C++)
  • Exposure to modern Python data science tooling. (pandas, polars, dask, duckdb etc)

Compensation


The base salary range for this position is $225,000 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. Our benefits package includes medical, dental, and vision coverage, life and AD&D insurance, 20 days of paid time off, 9 sick days, and a 401(k) plan with a company match.


“Friends of Voleon” Candidate Referral Program


If you have a great candidate in mind for this role and would like to have the potential to earn $15,000 if your referred candidate is successfully hired and employed by The Voleon Group, please use this form to submit your referral. For more details regarding eligibility, terms, and conditions, please make sure to review the Voleon Referral Bonus Program.

 

Equal Opportunity Employer


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.

 

Vaccination Requirement


The Voleon Group has implemented a policy requiring all employees who will be entering our worksite, including new hires, to be fully vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccine. This policy also applies to remote employees, as such employees will be asked to visit our offices from time to time. To the extent permitted by applicable law, proof of vaccination will be required as a condition of employment. This policy is part of Voleon’s ongoing efforts to ensure the safety and well-being of our employees and community, and to support public health efforts.


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Top Skills

C++
Go
Python
The Company
HQ: Berkeley, CA
169 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2007

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.

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