Senior​/Software Engineer, Data

Senior/Staff Software Engineer – Data Engineering (NYC)

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 been a leader on the frontier of applying AI/ML to investment management. We have grown into a multibillion‑dollar asset manager and have ambitious goals for the future.

Your colleagues will include internationally recognized experts in artificial intelligence and machine learning research, highly experienced finance and technology professionals, and individuals whose backgrounds span concert music, humanitarian aid, opera singing, sports writing, and BMX racing. You will be part of a team that loves to succeed together.

In addition to a 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.

As a Senior/Staff Software Engineer in our Data Engineering group, you will contribute to scaling and advancing our entire data operation. This includes procurement and ingestion of new datasets, enabling data processing and analysis in research and production environments, building data‑related infrastructure and tooling, and collaborating closely with various teams to facilitate and improve their usage of data. 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, directly impacting the team's productivity and successful delivery. You’ll help define the team’s technical roadmap toward achieving strategic‑level engineering goals. You’ll participate in mentoring and developing other engineers and shaping our company’s engineering culture.

• Engage and collaborate in diverse software development work, including the design and implementation of distributed systems and services, maintenance and deployment of production workflows, development of tools and libraries, and more
• Support our trading operations and promote our research effort through reliable delivery of high‑quality and easily accessible data
• Build scalable data infrastructure, robust storage 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 other team members and elevate the team

• Computer Science or 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 and APIs, highly available systems, and/or large‑scale data infrastructure
• Experience with data storage and management technologies (e.g., Postgre
  
  SQL, Artifactory, Ceph, Redis)

• Familiarity with cluster management and containerization technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker
• Familiarity with job scheduling and orchestration technologies such as Airflow and Slurm
• Familiarity with cloud storage, querying, and processing technologies such as Iceberg, Big Query, Snowflake, Dynamo
  
  DB, Trino/Athena
• Strong communication skills and a knack for explaining complex ideas with clarity and simplicity

The base salary range for this position is $225,000 to $310,000 in the location(s) of this posting. Individual salaries are determined through a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and geography. Base salary does not include other forms of total…