Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Voleon, a leading technology company in finance, as a Staff Software Engineer on our Credit Execution Engineering team. You will design and develop real-time distributed trading systems, data pipelines, and tooling for analyzing trading performance and risk. Collaborate with finance and research teams to support diverse requirements and complex trading behaviors. This role requires 7+ years of software engineering experience building high-performance systems and expertise in languages like Python and Go. You will mentor other engineers and lead complex projects. Voleon offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and a collaborative work environment.

Requirements

• Computer Science Degree or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of software engineering experience building high-performance systems
• Experience operating and scaling mission-critical, large-scale production systems in languages such as Python and Go
• Excellent communication and project management skills in complex technical domains
• Ability to understand user stories and design solutions around real-world requirements
• Track record mentoring engineers and leading technical direction

Responsibilities

• Design real-time distributed trading systems that place orders across global markets and asset classes (Go)
• Own observability and remediation tooling used to analyze trading performance and risk (Go / Python)
• Integrate with new assets and markets and drive clarity on the resulting requirements
• Improve the resilience and performance of our trading systems
• Develop tooling to integrate data from diverse vendors
• Lead complex projects spanning across the company. Collaborate across research, legal, trading, finance operations data, and infra teams to deliver end-to-end trading systems
• Mentor and develop other engineers on the team, and share your practices and knowledge with the team and company

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise in building and optimizing data pipelines
• Experience with profiling and performance optimizations on highly available systems
• Experience with designing DR-aware robust software solutions
• Exposure to modern Python data science tooling

Benefits

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