[Hiring] Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure @The Voleon Group

Role Description

As a Software Engineer on our Data Infrastructure team, you will contribute to scaling and advancing our entire data infrastructure. This includes:

• Building data-related infrastructure and tooling.
• Collaborating closely with various teams to facilitate and improve their usage of data.
• Working with our team lead to design, scope, and deliver large scale projects within the team.
• Collaborating closely with a diverse group of engineers to impact the team's productivity and successful delivery.
• Defining the team's technical roadmap towards achieving strategic-level engineering goals.
• Participating in mentorship and development of other engineers on the team.
• Shaping our company's engineering culture.

We seek brilliant thinkers who are passionate about taming complexity and solving problems through innovation and rigorous engineering. You’ll work in a collaborative environment that encourages creative thinking and experimentation, and values efficiency and attention to detail.

Qualifications

• Computer Science / Engineering bachelor’s degree (or equivalent).
• 3+ 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 and APIs, highly-available systems, and/or large-scale data infrastructure.
• Strong communication skills and a knack for explaining complex ideas with clarity and simplicity.

Requirements

• Familiarity with cluster management and containerization technologies (e.g. Kubernetes, Docker).
• Familiarity with cloud storage, querying, and processing technologies (e.g. Iceberg, BigQuery, Snowflake, DynamoDB, Trino/Athena).
• Familiarity with job scheduling and orchestration technologies (e.g. Airflow, Slurm).
• Experience building data platforms with a developer experience lens — designing APIs, access patterns, or tooling that abstracts infrastructure complexity from end users.

Benefits

• Highly competitive compensation and benefits packages.
• Technology talks by our experts.
• A beautiful modern office.
• Daily catered lunches.

Company 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.