Senior Software Engineer, Platform Team at voleon

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 colleagues will include internationally recognized experts in artificial intelligence and machine learning research as well as highly experienced finance and technology professionals. The people who shape our company come from other backgrounds, including concert music performances, humanitarian aid, opera singing, sports writing, and BMX racing. You will be part of a team that loves to succeed together. In addition to our enriching and collegial working environment, we offer highly competitive compensation and benefits packages, technology talks by our experts, a beautiful modern office, daily catered lunches, and more. Responsibilities • Design and implement distributed scheduling and workflow systems • Improve job prioritization, resource allocation, and orchestration across hybrid environments • Build scalable, reliable platform services and storage abstractions • Lead complex projects from design through production delivery • Improve system reliability, observability, and operational performance • Provide technical leadership and mentorship across the team • Lead complex projects from start to finish, which includes gathering project requirements, translating them into a rational software design, reasoning effectively about supporting or dependent technologies, and communicating effectively with collaborators and teammates • Provide technical guidance to engineering and research staff • Mentor and grow individual contributors to continuously up-level the team Requirements • Computer Science / Engineering degree, or equivalent experience • 5+ years of software engineering experience • Proven track record of software design and implementation with focus on correctness, robustness, efficiency, and scale • Expertise in a modern programming language, such as Python, Go, Java or C++ • Hands-on experience developing in a Linux/UNIX environment • Design and implementation of scalable services and APIs, highly-available systems, and/or large-scale data infrastructure • Experience with data storage and management technologies (e.g. PostgreSQL, Artifactory, Ceph, Redis) • Familiarity with job scheduling and orchestration technologies (e.g. Airflow, Slurm) • Familiarity with cloud-based data storage, querying, and processing technologies • Work with large codebases and experience building modular, extensible, and maintainable software • Strong communication skills and a proven ability to explain complex ideas with clarity and simplicity Compensation The base salary range for this position is $225,000 to $255,000 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. #LI-MB1