Senior Software Engineer, Post-Trade Financial Systems

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 Back Office Engineering team, you will develop production trading systems and data pipelines while collaborating closely with finance and research teams.

Responsibilities:

• 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 your expertise, best practices, and knowledge

Requirements:

• 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, etc.)
• Experience with profiling and performance optimizations on distributed systems
• Familiarity with modern Python data science tooling (pandas, polars, dask, duckdb, etc.)
• Experience with modern data engineering technologies