About this opportunity
The Voleon Group lists this Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Data Engineering opportunity in new york, New York. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
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.
Your Team
As a Senior or Staff Software Engineer on our Data Engineering team, you will contribute to scaling and advancing our entire data operation. This includes procurement and ingestion of new datasets, enabling the use of data in research and production environments, building data‑related systems and tooling, and collaborating closely with various teams to facilitate data consumption. You will work with our team lead to design, scope, and deliver large‑scale projects within the team. You will collaborate closely with a diverse group of engineers, and directly impact the team's productivity and successful delivery. You will help to define the team's technical roadmap toward achieving strategic‑level engineering goals. You will participate in mentorship and development of other engineers on the team, and shape our company's engineering culture.
Responsibilities
Engage and collaborate in diverse software development work, including design and implementation of data processing technologies, sourcing and delivery systems and pipelines, development of data‑related tools and libraries, and more.
Support our trading operations and promote our research effort through reliable delivery of high‑quality data.
Build scalable and robust ingestion and distribution systems, and fault‑tolerant production‑critical pipelines.
Lead complex projects from start to finish, including gathering requirements, creating a robust software design, reasoning about supporting or dependent technologies, and communicating effectively with stakeholders, collaborators, and teammates.
Provide technical guidance to engineering and research staff.
Provide mentorship and support to help grow your teammates and up‑level the team.
Requirements
Computer Science / Engineering bachelor’s degree (or equivalent)
5+ years of relevant software engineering experience
Proven track record of software design and implementation with focus on correctness, robustness, efficiency, and scale
Experience working with large codebases and building modular, extensible, and maintainable software
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, highly‑available systems, and/or robust data infrastructure
Strong communication skills and a knack for explaining complex ideas with clarity and simplicity
Preferred Qualifications
Familiarity with the following strongly preferred:
Experience with data storage and management technologies (e.g. PostgreSQL, Artifactory, Ceph, Redis)
Cluster management and containerization technologies (e.g. Kubernetes, Docker)
Job scheduling and orchestration technologies (e.g. Airflow, Slurm)
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.
Compensation Range
$225K - $310K
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Worksite address
new york, NY, 10261, US
Who can apply
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