Technical Manager, Securities Engineering

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 a technical level, developing their team in the process.  You will also serve as a Product Owner, the key person for your domain of expertise.  You will work closely with Engineering leadership and counterparts in Research to develop your team's roadmap, vision, and execute against it.  

As Technical Manager, Securities Engineering, you will lead a high-performing technical team responsible for a key component of the Voleon technology platform.  Your team will operationalize the outputs of our research organization and power our trading engine.  Your team will develop abstractions that encapsulate core business logic for the entire firm that can be consumed across a wide portfolio of strategy types.

Your team will be responsible for delivering a high-performance and high-availability production system.  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 with the VP of Engineering and other 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 of this roadmap.  You'll develop individual engineers in your group 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 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 stakeholder team to develop a roadmap and future vision for your team
• Mentor and grow 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
• 2+ years of people management experience
• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Demonstrated history of management of engineering team and senior engineers
• Proven ability to hire and manage exceptional engineers
• Expertise in a modern programming language, such as Python, Go, R, and/or C/C++
• Experience operating critical production systems with high-uptime requirements
• 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 $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.

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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.