[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer @Voleon
Feb 14, 2025 - Voleon is hiring a remote Senior Software Engineer. 💸 Salary: $225,000 to $255,000. 📍Location: USA.
Role Description
As a Senior Software Engineer on our Simulation and Portfolio Engineering team, you will contribute to our simulator, which is used across the company to evaluate and back-test research ideas. This includes various efforts such as:
- Realizing the maximal performance of the simulator
- Improving our ability to run thousands of simulations in parallel and at scale
- Supporting and evaluating nascent research efforts
You will work with our Product Owner for Simulation Engineering to design, scope, and deliver large scale projects within the team. Collaboration will be essential, as you will work closely with:
- A diverse group of engineers across multiple teams
- Stakeholders on research teams
Over time, you will help define the team's technical roadmap towards achieving strategic-level engineering goals and participate in mentorship and development of other engineers on the team, shaping our company's engineering culture.
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, including gathering project requirements, translating them into a rational software design, 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, sharing your practices and knowledge with the team and company
Qualifications
- 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 with a proven ability to explain 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
Preferred Qualifications
- Exposure to tooling for running automated workflows (e.g., airflow, docker, kubernetes) and general HPC experience
- Experience with performance improvements using GPUs
Requirements
- The base salary range for this position is $225,000 to $255,000
- Individual salaries are determined through a variety of factors, including education, experience, knowledge, skills, and geography
- Base salary does not include other forms of total compensation such as bonus compensation and other benefits
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
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Salary
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$225,000 to $255,000
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Remote
Location
USA
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Job Type
full-time
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Posted
Feb 14, 2025
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| 📍 | Be aware of the location restriction for this remote position: USA |
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