[Remote] Senior Software Engineer, Platform Team
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The Voleon Group is a technology company that applies state-of-the-art AI and machine learning techniques to real-world problems in finance. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Software Platform team, you will design and evolve distributed systems that power research and trading workflows, collaborating closely with various teams to enhance platform capabilities and system performance.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement distributed scheduling and workflow systems
- Improve job prioritization, resource allocation, and orchestration across hybrid environments
- Build scalable, reliable platform services and storage abstractions
- Lead complex projects from design through production delivery
- Improve system reliability, observability, and operational performance
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship across the team
- Lead complex projects from start to finish, which includes gathering project requirements, translating them into a rational software design, reasoning effectively about supporting or dependent technologies, and communicating effectively with collaborators and teammates
- Provide technical guidance to engineering and research staff
- Mentor and grow individual contributors to continuously up-level the team
Skills
- Computer Science / Engineering degree, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- Proven track record of software design and implementation with focus on correctness, robustness, efficiency, and scale
- 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. PostgreSQL, Artifactory, Ceph, Redis)
- Familiarity with job scheduling and orchestration technologies (e.g. Airflow, Slurm)
- Familiarity with cloud-based data storage, querying, and processing technologies
- Work with large codebases and experience building modular, extensible, and maintainable software
- Strong communication skills and a proven ability to explain complex ideas with clarity and simplicity
Benefits
- Highly competitive compensation and benefits packages
- Technology talks by our experts
- A beautiful modern office
- Daily catered lunches
- Friends of Voleon Candidate Referral Program with potential to earn $15,000 if your referred candidate is successfully hired and employed
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