Description
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.
As a Technical Manager, you will be responsible for the technical and managerial oversight of your team. We believe the best Engineering leaders are deeply technical, and look for colleagues who are able to engage deeply on this level, developing their team in the process, and serving as the key person for their domain of expertise. You will work closely with Engineering leadership and counterparts in Research to develop your team's vision and roadmap, and execute against them.
As Technical Manager, Data Infrastructure Engineering, you will lead a high-performing team responsible for key data technologies and services at Voleon. Your team will design, build and maintain systems and tools to provide a world-class data platform to our research and engineering groups. Your team will create interfaces and set up infrastructure to enable rapid experimentation with data, and easy implementation, configuration, and monitoring of ML workflows.
Your team will deliver performant, resilient, and highly available data platforms and service. You will bring an exceptional attention to detail to your work, ensuring implementation of correct and precise solutions to complex computational and operational problems. You will develop deep observability across all these systems, and grow the necessary expertise within yours and other teams.
You will work with our Data Engineering Lead, VP of Engineering, and other engineering leaders 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. You'll develop individual engineers in your team to deliver ever more from them. 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, and strives for operational excellence. You’ll work alongside experienced engineers recruited from leading technology companies and selected from the sharpest minds at university programs. We embrace experimentation, and you and your team will collaborate closely with top machine learning researchers.
Responsibilities
- Effectively manage a team of engineers
- Attract, hire, and retain top engineering talent
- Develop ambitious yet achievable goals for your team, and reliably deliver results
- Work closely with stakeholders to develop a roadmap and future vision for your team
- Mentor and grow individual contributors to continuously up-level your team
- Engage and collaborate in diverse software development work, including design and implementation of distributed data processing systems, maintenance and deployment of production workflows, tool development, and more
- Support our trading operations and promote our research effort through reliable and timely delivery of high-quality data
- Build scalable data infrastructure, robust storage and distribution systems, and fault-tolerant production-critical pipelines
- 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
Requirements
- 2+ years of people management experience
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- Demonstrated history of management of engineering teams and senior engineers
- Exceptional communication skills and a proven ability to explain complex ideas with clarity and simplicity
- Proven ability to hire and retain exceptional engineers
- Software design and implementation with focus on correctness, robustness, efficiency, and maintainability
- Expertise in modern programming languages, such as Python, Go, Java, or C++
- Experience with data storage and management technologies (e.g. PostgreSQL, Artifactory, Ceph, Redis)
- Familiarity with job scheduling and orchestration technologies (e.g. Airflow, Slurm)
- Design and implementation of scalable services and APIs, highly-available systems, and/or large-scale data infrastructure
- Familiarity with cloud-based data storage, technologies, and development methodologies
- Computer Science Degree, or equivalent experience
The base salary range for this position is $225,000 to $310,000 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.
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