Senior Software Engineer, Strategy Platform
The Voleon Group2 months ago
Base Salary
$290k - $395k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own data access, validation, orchestration, and cataloguing across research and production.
- Engineer deployment processes for moving research experiments into production.
- Build tooling for diverse vendor data integration and unified symbol mappings.
- Support data pipelines with temporal semantics across varying latency and correctness requirements.
- Sequence platform migrations toward shared abstractions while minimizing disruption to active trading systems.
- Lead complex cross-company projects with research, legal, trading, finance operations, data, and infrastructure teams.
- Build tooling for integrating new assets and markets.
- Improve observability across data cataloguing, experiment tracking, and production service-level agreements.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in backend, data pipelines, or platform engineering.
- Experience owning platform systems that other teams depend on daily, making decomposition decisions involving data access layers, API versioning, data models, and migration sequencing.
- Strong debugging and observability instincts, including the ability to navigate unfamiliar codebases and datasets across complex data pipelines.
- Computer Science degree or equivalent experience.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and benefits packages.
- Technology talks led by company experts.
- Beautiful modern office.
- Daily catered lunches.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About The Voleon Group
The Voleon Group is a privately held quantitative hedge fund that applies statistical machine learning to public markets. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Berkeley, California, it manages multi‑billion‑dollar investment funds for institutional investors and earns management and performance fees. Its researchers and engineers build scalable trading and research systems to forecast securities and execute strategies across global markets.