Senior Software Engineer - Simulation Engineering

February 14

🏄 California – Remote

Although this job is listed in California, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

💵 $225k - $255k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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The Voleon Group

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The Voleon Group is a company focused on the development and application of advanced machine learning technologies for investment management. By leveraging statistical algorithms and data-driven techniques, Voleon aims to improve financial prediction and management practices. Established in 2007 and headquartered near the University of California, Berkeley, the company benefits from a strong academic environment. Voleon's team consists of top talents in statistics, computer science, and related fields, fostering innovation in a collaborative work culture. The leadership consists of highly educated individuals with a background in computer science and statistics, emphasizing scalability and risk management in their investment strategies.

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2007

💸 Finance

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

📋 Description

• Voleon is a technology company that applies state-of-the-art machine learning techniques to real-world problems in finance. • As a Senior Software Engineer on our Simulation and Portfolio Engineering team, you will contribute to our simulator, which is used across the company to evaluate and back-test research ideas. • You will work with our Product Owner for Simulation Engineering to design, scope, and deliver large scale projects within the team. • You will collaborate closely both with a diverse group of engineers across multiple teams and with stakeholders on research teams to contribute to a simulation platform that supports a diverse set of requirements and complex trading behaviors. • You will help defining the team's technical roadmap towards achieving strategic-level engineering goals, and participate in mentorship and development of other engineers on the team. • We look for brilliant people with a passion for solving problems through innovation and engineering fundamentals.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building highly performant systems • Proven track record of software design and implementation with focus on correctness, robustness, efficiency, and scale • Hands-on experience developing in a Linux/UNIX environment • Excellent communication and project management skills and a proven ability explain to complex ideas with clarity and simplicity • Track record mentoring engineers and leading technical direction • Familiarity with techniques and approaches from optimization, algorithms, and statistics. • Experience with runtime profiling and performance optimization on large code-bases. (Python / C++) • Exposure to modern python data science tooling (pandas, polars, duckdb etc) • Computer Science degree, or equivalent experience

🏖️ Benefits

• medical, dental and vision coverage • life and AD&D insurance • 20 days of paid time off • 9 sick days • 401(k) plan with a company match