Voleon - Senior Software Engineer
Lisbon
Python
Voleon is recruiting a Senior Software Engineer
A platform for the development and deployment of cutting-edge technologies in investment management.
About: Voleon is a technology company that applies state-of-the-art machine learning techniques to real-world problems in finance. For more than a decade, they led their industry and worked at the frontier of applying machine learning to investment management. They become a multibillion-dollar asset manager and they have ambitious goals for the future.
At Voleon you´ll find internationally recognized experts in machine learning research as well as highly experienced technology and finance professionals. The people who shape their company come from other backgrounds, too, including concert music performance, humanitarian aid, opera singing, sports writing, and BMX racing. You will be part of a team that loves to succeed together.
About the role:
As a Senior or Staff Software Engineer, you will develop systems to translate cutting-edge machine learning into complex trading behaviors. You will touch areas as wide-ranging as machine learning, finance, and technology. This role is a means to make a difference: together with other Software Engineers, you will build the backbone of our business.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and collaborate in diverse and engaging software work, which includes areas such as trading infrastructure, computing and data processing, flexible pipelines for model development, and more
- Proactively 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 teammates
- Design and implement fault-tolerant distributed systems
- Build large-scale data infrastructure, stream processing systems, and/or latency-sensitive programs
- Act as a technical leader for both research and engineering staff
Requirements:
- Experience developing in a Linux environment with a focus on performance, concurrency, and correctness using programming languages such as Python, Go, R, and/or C/C++
- Work in performance optimization, multi-threading, and server development
- Architect and design work in highly available systems and large-scale data management infrastructure
- Work in a large codebase and experience building modular, manageable code
- Eagerness to work in diverse teams
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field
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