Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience
The Voleon Group2 months ago
Base Salary
$225k - $255k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and improve fast, reliable, automated build, test, and deployment pipelines.
- Evolve build-system tooling, including Bazel rules and macros.
- Reduce build, test, and deployment latency and address slow or flaky tests.
- Build and standardize automated deployment pipelines across environments.
- Lead company-wide language, framework, dependency, and end-of-life system modernization efforts.
- Provide visibility into dependency age and technical risk across the codebase.
- Expand and integrate AI-assisted development workflows into standard tooling.
- Lead complex projects from requirements gathering through software design, implementation, and collaboration.
- Provide technical guidance to engineering and research staff.
- Mentor and grow individual contributors.
Requirements
- Computer Science or Engineering degree, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of software engineering experience.
- Proven software design and implementation experience focused on correctness, robustness, efficiency, and scale.
- Expertise in a modern programming language such as Python, Go, Java, or C++.
- Hands-on experience in a Linux/UNIX environment.
- Experience designing and implementing scalable services, tooling, and APIs used by other engineers.
- Experience with build systems or monorepos such as Bazel or Buck.
- Experience with CI/CD systems, test infrastructure, and deployment automation.
- Familiarity with containerization and deployment technologies such as Docker.
- Experience working with large codebases and building modular, extensible, maintainable software.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to explain complex ideas clearly.
- Preferred experience includes improving developer productivity at scale, dependency management, large-scale modernization, and integrating AI-assisted development tooling.
Benefits
- The role works on high-leverage developer-platform and tooling systems used across the company.
- The position is part of a collaborative Software Platform team working with application engineering, Infrastructure, Security, and ML research teams.
- The posting includes a candidate referral program with potential eligibility for a $7,500 referral payment.
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.