Software Engineer - University Hire 2027
The Voleon Group2 months ago
Base Salary
$175k - $210k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead and collaborate on software projects involving trading infrastructure, computing and data processing, model-development pipelines, and related systems.
- Design, develop, and maintain robust software supporting trading strategies and research initiatives.
- Manage complex projects from requirements gathering through software design, implementation, and completion.
- Reason about supporting and dependent technologies and communicate effectively with teammates.
- Collaborate with Senior Software Engineers while receiving mentorship and coaching.
Requirements
- Experience developing in a Linux environment with emphasis on performance, concurrency, and correctness using Python, R, Java, Go, or C/C++.
- Backend engineering experience with databases, large-scale data processing, and highly available services.
- Ability to design, develop, and deploy a backend application from design specifications.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills for effective cross-functional collaboration.
- Familiarity with modern deployment and build tooling such as Kubernetes and Bazel is preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field, with graduation in 2027.
- Authorization to work in the United States.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and benefits packages.
- Technology talks led by company experts.
- Modern office environment.
- Daily catered lunches.
- Collegial and collaborative working environment.
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.