The Voleon Group ยท 1 day ago
Senior / Staff Software Engineer - Batch and Realtime Streaming
Berkeley, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$225K/yr - $310K/yr
5+ years expThe Voleon Group is a technology-driven firm specializing in AI and machine learning for finance. They are seeking a Senior/Staff Software Engineer to architect, develop, and maintain their Batch and Realtime Streaming platform, collaborating with researchers and finance professionals to enhance their machine learning systems.
Financial ServicesVenture Capital
Responsibilities
Architect, design, and implement core components for a Batch and Realtime Streaming platform, including data ingestion pipelines, storage systems, serving layers, and API interfaces
Ship new features by collaborating across research, legal, trading, finance operations data, and infra teams for trading systems
Collaborate with ML researchers and data scientists to understand their workflows and design intuitive interfaces (APIs, SDKs, UIs) for seamless feature discovery, access, and reuse
Ensure data quality, consistency, and lineage for features, building robust mechanisms for versioning, monitoring, and governance
Optimize data pipelines and storage for high performance, scalability, and reliability, considering both batch and real-time use cases
Drive adoption of the feature store across teams by producing documentation, onboarding materials, and developer support
Mentor junior engineers and contribute to team best practices and technical excellence
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
5+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong background in backend systems, distributed computing, or data infrastructure
Experience in programming languages such as Python, Go, and C++
Understanding of database technologies (Postgres, MySQL, Cassandra, DynamoDB, SQLite, DuckDB or MongoDB) and experience with APIs (REST/gRPC)
Strong problem-solving skills, with a focus on delivering high-quality, maintainable, and well-documented solutions
Excellent communication and collaboration skills; ability to work closely with both engineering and research teams
Preferred
Experience building large-scale data pipelines and storage systems (e.g., Airflow, Spark, etc)
Exposure to modern Python data science tooling. (pandas, polars, dask, duckdb etc)
Experience with monitoring and observability tools for distributed systems (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack)
Prior experience working with feature stores (e.g., Feast, Hopsworks, or custom solutions) is highly desirable
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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