Senior Software Engineer, Post-Trade Financial Systems

Voleon is a technology company applying state‑of‑the‑art AI and machine learning to real‑world finance problems, with a focus on investment management. The Senior Software Engineer will develop production trading systems and data pipelines that power our AI/ML models for both production and research.

This role supports remote work within the US or a hybrid arrangement at our Berkeley office.

We look for brilliant people who solve problems with innovation and engineering fundamentals. You’ll join a collaborative environment with experienced engineers recruited from leading tech companies and universities, working closely with top machine learning researchers.

• Design and optimize robust, scalable data infrastructure and real‑time stream processing systems to support historical and live pipelines using tools like Python, Airflow, Go, and Apache Beam
• Develop and maintain observability and remediation tools to monitor and analyze trading performance and risk, ensuring reliability and transparency in operations
• Lead efforts to integrate new financial assets and markets, clarifying requirements and ensuring seamless functionality within existing systems
• Enhance the resilience, scalability, and performance of accounting and reporting systems to meet evolving business needs
• Build advanced tooling to unify data from diverse vendors, standardizing symbol mappings to ensure consistency and accuracy across systems
• Lead complex, company‑wide projects by collaborating cross‑functionally with research, legal, trading, finance operations, data, and infrastructure teams to deliver comprehensive end‑to‑end accounting and reporting systems
• Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from various data sources
• Guide and support the growth of other engineers on the team by mentoring them and sharing expertise, best practices, and knowledge

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience in a related technical field
• 5+ years of software engineering experience designing and building high‑performance, reliable systems
• Proven expertise in operating and scaling large‑scale, mission‑critical production systems, with proficiency in programming languages such as Python
• Strong communication and project management skills, particularly in navigating complex technical domains and cross‑functional collaboration
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and provide leadership in driving technical direction and system architecture

• Expertise in building and optimizing data pipelines (e.g., change data capture, data modeling, data streaming)
• Experience with profiling and performance optimizations on distributed systems
• Familiarity with modern Python data science tooling (pandas, polars, dask, duckdb)
• Experience with modern data engineering technologies

The Voleon Group is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.