The Voleon Group · 10 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer, Post-Trade Financial Systems
Berkeley, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$225K/yr - $255K/yr
5+ years expThe Voleon Group is a technology company that applies AI and machine learning techniques to finance. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Back Office Engineering team, you will develop production trading systems and data pipelines, collaborating closely with finance and research teams to support complex trading behaviors.
Financial ServicesVenture Capital
Responsibilities
Design and optimize robust, scalable data infrastructure and real-time stream processing systems to support historical and live pipelines using tools like Python, Airflow, Go, and Apache Beam
Develop and maintain observability and remediation tools to monitor and analyze trading performance and risk, ensuring reliability and transparency in operations
Lead efforts to integrate new financial assets and markets, clarifying requirements and ensuring seamless functionality within existing systems
Enhance the resilience, scalability, and performance of accounting and reporting systems to meet evolving business needs
Build advanced tooling to unify data from diverse vendors, standardizing symbol mappings to ensure consistency and accuracy across systems
Lead complex, company-wide projects by collaborating cross-functionally with research, legal, trading, finance operations, data, and infrastructure teams to deliver comprehensive end-to-end accounting and reporting systems
Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from various data sources
Guide and support the growth of other engineers on the team by mentoring them and sharing your expertise, best practices, and knowledge
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience in a related technical field
5+ years of software engineering experience designing and building high-performance, reliable systems
Proven expertise in operating and scaling large-scale, mission-critical production systems, with proficiency in programming languages such as Python
Strong communication and project management skills, particularly in navigating complex technical domains and cross-functional collaboration
Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and provide leadership in driving technical direction and system architecture
Preferred
Expertise in building and optimizing data pipelines (e.g., Apache Airflow, Spark, Kafka)
Experience with profiling and performance optimizations on distributed systems
Familiarity with modern Python data science tooling (pandas, polars, dask, duckdb, etc.)
Experience with modern data engineering technologies
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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