Director of Engineering @ The Voleon Group

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, we have led our industry and worked at the frontier of applying machine learning to investment management. We have become a multibillion dollar asset manager, and we have ambitious goals for the future.

Your colleagues will include internationally recognized experts in machine learning research as well as highly experienced technology and finance professionals. The people who shape our 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.

In addition to our enriching and collegial working environment, we offer highly competitive compensation and benefits packages, technology talks by our experts, a beautiful modern office, daily catered lunches, and more.

As Director of Engineering, Strategy Applications, you will lead a group of high-performing technical teams responsible for a key component of the Voleon technology platform. Your teams will operationalize the outputs of our research organization and power our trading engine. Your group will develop abstractions that encapsulate core business logic for the entire firm that can be consumed across a wide portfolio of strategy types. You will develop and own the systems that execute, reconcile, and bookkeep our trading operations each day.

Your teams will be responsible for delivering a high-performance and high-availability model inference and quantitative trading components critical to the company’s profitability. You will ensure that our services are maximally available, designed for resiliency and redundancy. You will bring an exceptional attention to detail to your work, ensuring that precision and correctness is applied across all dimensions of your team’s portfolio. You will develop deep observability across all these systems, and grow an operations team responsible for their implementation.

You will work directly with the VP of Engineering to execute on your vision for your team. You will grow and scale your team according to a roadmap that you develop and own, ensuring accountable, reliable delivery of this roadmap. You’ll develop both individual engineers in your group, as well as senior staff reporting directly to you, to deliver ever more from your organization. You’ll collaborate with peers in engineering and stakeholders in research to balance a diverse set of requirements, and make tradeoffs to ensure the best outcomes for the firm.

Your Team

We look for brilliant people with a passion for solving problems through innovation and engineering fundamentals. You’ll work in a collaborative environment that encourages creative thinking and efficient implementation. We embrace experimentation. You’ll work alongside experienced engineers recruited from leading technology companies and selected from the sharpest minds at university programs. You and your teams will collaborate closely with top machine learning researchers.

Responsibilities

Effectively manage a small group of frontline managers and senior individual contributors
Attract, hire, and retain top engineering talent across your teams
Develop ambitious yet achievable goals for your team, and reliably deliver results
Work closely with stakeholder teams to develop a roadmap and future vision for your domain
Mentor and grow managers and individual contributors to continuously up-level your team
Capture business logic to ensure reliable delivery of our core trading products
Scale and operationalize our execution and production trading systems
Collaborate with our operations team to oversee systems and capture data for compliance

Requirements

Computer Science Degree, or equivalent experience
Demonstrated history of management of large engineering teams (15+ engineers)
10+ years software engineering experience and 3+ years people management experience
Experience leading and developing both managers and individual contributors
Proven ability to hire and manage exceptional engineers and technical managers
Experience operating critical production systems with high-uptime requirements
Experience deploying ML models to production via serving or batch contexts
Knowledge of best practices for robust, high-availability design
Ability to understand key details to provide provably correct systems

The base salary range for this position is $310,000 to $325,000 in the location(s) of this posting. Individual salaries are determined through a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and geography. Base salary does not include other forms of total compensation such as bonus compensation and other benefits. Our benefits package includes medical, dental and vision coverage, life and AD&D insurance, 20 days of paid time off, 9 sick days, and a 401(k) plan with a company match.

“Friends of Voleon” Candidate Referral Program

If you have a great candidate in mind for this role and would like to have the potential to earn $15,000 if your referred candidate is successfully hired and employed by The Voleon Group, please use this form to submit your referral. For more details regarding eligibility, terms and conditions please make sure to review the Voleon Referral Bonus Program.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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.

Vaccination Requirement

The Voleon Group has implemented a policy requiring all employees who will be entering our worksite, including new hires, to be fully vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccine. This policy also applies to remote employees, as such employees will be asked to visit our offices from time to time. To the extent permitted by applicable law, proof of vaccination will be required as a condition of employment. This policy is part of Voleon’s ongoing efforts to ensure the safety and well-being of our employees and community, and to support public health efforts.

Director of Engineering

Strategy Applications

The Voleon Group

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