Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Voleon's Simulation and Portfolio Engineering team as a Senior Software Engineer and contribute to a cutting-edge simulator used for evaluating investment strategies. You will collaborate with engineers and researchers, design and deliver large-scale projects, and optimize the simulator's performance. Responsibilities include algorithm development, data pipeline work, and building tools for analyzing experiments. You will also mentor junior engineers and help shape the team's technical roadmap. This role requires extensive software engineering experience, proficiency in Python and C++, and strong communication skills. Voleon offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and a collaborative work environment.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building highly performant systems
• Proven track record of software design and implementation with focus on correctness, robustness, efficiency, and scale
• Hands-on experience developing in a Linux/UNIX environment
• Excellent communication and project management skills and a proven ability explain to complex ideas with clarity and simplicity
• Track record mentoring engineers and leading technical direction
• Familiarity with techniques and approaches from optimization, algorithms, and statistics
• Experience with runtime profiling and performance optimization on large code-bases. (Python / C++)
• Exposure to modern python data science tooling (pandas, polars, duckdb etc)
• Computer Science degree, or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

• Engage and collaborate in diverse software development work, ranging from algorithm development to working on data pipelines and building tooling for analyzing experiments
• Accelerate the company's research efforts through the development of a reliable and performant simulator code-base
• Lead company-spanning complex projects from start to finish, which includes gathering project requirements, translating them into a rational software design, reasoning effectively about supporting or dependent technologies, and communicating effectively with collaborators and teammates across the company
• Design enhancements to our simulator code-base, used to back-test research ideas across a global set of markets and asset classes (Python / C++)
• Build and optimize algorithms for improving the efficiency and reliability of our back-testing pipelines. (Python / C++)
• Develop and own tooling used to analyze trading performance (Python / R)
• Mentor and develop other engineers on the team, and share your practices and knowledge with the team and company

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to tooling for running automated workflows (e.g.: airflow, docker, kubernetes), and general HPC experience
• Experience with performance improvements using GPUs

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• Life and AD&D insurance
• 20 days of paid time off
• 9 sick days
• A 401(k) plan with a company match