The Voleon Group ยท 21 hours ago
Staff Software Engineer, Trading Platforms
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$270K/yr - $300K/yr
7+ years expThe Voleon Group is a technology company that applies AI and machine learning techniques to finance. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to develop production trading systems and data pipelines, collaborating closely with finance and research teams to support complex trading behaviors.
Financial ServicesVenture Capital
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
Qualification
Required
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, Go and C++
Excellent communication and project management skills in complex technical domains
Track record mentoring engineers and leading technical direction
Preferred
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)
Benefits
Medical, dental, and vision coverage
Life and AD&D insurance
20 days of paid time off
9 sick days
401(k) plan with a company match
Company
The Voleon Group
The Voleon Group is a family of companies committed to the development & deployment of cutting-edge technologies in investment management.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageLeadership Team
Jon McAuliffe
Chief Investment Officer and Co-founder
Prem Gopalan
Chief Technology Officer
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