Senior Software Engineer, Strategy Research Analytics
Senior Software Engineer at a quantitative investment firm building and maintaining AI-driven analytics infrastructure for finance research, using Python, SQL, and distributed systems.
- Compensation
- $290K–$400K / yr
- Location
- Remote, United States
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 6+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience
- 6+ years of experience building and operating analytics or data infrastructure systems
- Strong proficiency in Python and SQL
- Deep experience with distributed query engines and large-scale compute systems
- Demonstrated ownership of large-scale or mission-critical data infrastructure
- Strong data modeling expertise, including schema design, partitioning strategy, and reproducibility considerations
- Expertise in metadata management, data lineage, and applying robust data governance principles
Nice to have
- Experience leading architectural migrations or major refactors of data platforms
- Familiarity with AWS cloud technologies and on-prem compute clusters (e.g., Slurm, SSH, Unix)
- Exposure to quantitative research or machine learning environments.
Full description
Voleon is a technology company that applies state-of-the-art AI and machine learning techniques to real-world problems in finance. For nearly two decades, we have led our industry and worked at the frontier of applying AI/ML to investment management. We have become a multibillion-dollar asset manager, and we have ambitious goals for the future.
As a Senior Software Engineer in Strategy Research Analytics, you will lead the design, evolution, and long-term architecture of Voleon’s analytics infrastructure supporting research reporting and analysis across strategies. You will own critical recurring analytics pipelines and foundational datasets, while guiding the transition from fragmented, bespoke workflows toward a standardized, observable, and query-native analytics platform. In addition to hands-on implementation, you will shape technical direction, establish reliability standards, and drive consolidation efforts that improve consistency, scalability, and reproducibility across research analytics systems.
You’ll collaborate closely with Data Scientists, Researchers, and Data Infrastructure teams to ensure analytics systems run reliably and produce consistent, queryable datasets. This role offers strong technical ownership within a mission-critical area of the research organization, with meaningful impact on research velocity and insight generation.
Your Team
The Research Analytics team sits within Research Engineering and works closely with Data Scientists and Researchers across all of Voleon's core strategies. 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. You’ll work alongside experienced engineers recruited from leading technology companies and selected from the sharpest minds at university programs.
The team’s mission is to:
- Stabilize existing analytics pipelines to ensure critical data is available for our data scientist and research partners
- Implement monitoring/alerting and operational runbooks; participate in incident response and postmortems
- Standardize outputs from strategy workflows into a unified analytics schema (tables, metrics definitions, partitioning strategy)
- Improve dataset discoverability via documentation, schema contracts, and metadata/lineage primitives
- Optimize query performance and cost for distributed engines (Presto/Spark) and columnar formats (Parquet/ORC)
Responsibilities
- Own implementation and on-going operation of recurring analytics pipelines (e.g., Airflow DAGs) including monitoring, alerting, and reliability improvements
- Lead architectural evolution of the analytics platform, including schema standardization, DAG consolidation, and modernization of legacy workflows