Senior Software Engineer, Execution Engineering
Voleon is a technology company that applies state-of-the-art AI and machine learning techniques to real-world problems in finance. For nearly two decades, we have led our industry and worked at the frontier of applying AI/ML to investment management. We have become a multibillion-dollar asset manager, and we have ambitious goals for the future. Your Team As a Senior Software Engineer on our Execution 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 traders and research teams to contribute to a platform that supports a diverse set of requirements and complex trading behaviors. 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 Integrate with new assets and markets and drive clarity on the resulting requirements Take ownership of entire outcomes, and continue to support and grow them through iteration, documentation, and testing Own observability and remediation tooling used to analyze trading performance and risk Improve the resilience and performance of our trading systems Participate in on-call rotations and drive incident response, root-cause analysis, and postmortems Lead projects spanning a number of engineering teams and collaborate with non engineering stakeholders Mentor and develop other engineers on the team, and share your practices and knowledge with the team and company
Requirements
Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Doctoret degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience) 5+ years of software engineering experience architecting and operationalizing high-performance, scalable, reliable, and resilient distributed systems Proven expertise in building cloud-native, distributed systems on any one of AWS, Azure, or GCP Demonstrated experience with modern cloud technologies and data observability tools (e.g., CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus), and Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., CloudFormation, Terraform) Experience designing telemetry standards (structured logs, metrics, distributed traces) and building dashboards and actionable alerting Comfortable working in a containerized environment with Docker, Kubernetes, etc Strong coding, analytical, debugging, and troubleshooting skills including use of industry standard tools Great at communicating and influencing stakeholders
Preferred Qualifications
Familiarity with the trading domain; experience in trading/execution systems (Order Management Systems, market data, order lifecycle) Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and support decision-making Track record mentoring engineers and leading technical direction “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. #LI-DL1