Staff Software Engineer, Strategy Platform
The Voleon Group2 months ago
Base Salary
$325k - $410k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the design, implementation, operation, and evolution of platform systems used across research and production.
- Define how data is accessed, validated, orchestrated, and catalogued across the strategy lifecycle.
- Build deployment processes that move research experiments into production smoothly.
- Integrate data from diverse vendors and unify symbol mappings for consistency.
- Develop data pipelines with appropriate temporal semantics, latency, and correctness guarantees.
- Sequence platform migrations toward shared abstractions while minimizing disruption to active trading systems.
- Lead complex cross-company projects involving research, legal, trading, finance operations, data, and infrastructure teams.
- Build tooling for integrating new assets and markets and improve observability through data cataloguing, experiment tracking, and production SLAs.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in backend, data pipelines, or platform engineering.
- Experience owning platform systems used daily by other teams and making decomposition decisions involving data access layers, API versioning, data models, and migration sequencing.
- Strong debugging and observability skills, 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 from company experts, a modern office, and 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.