Software Engineer (London)

The Voleon Group; City Of London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in the City of London is seeking a Software Engineer to develop and maintain real-time trading systems. The ideal candidate has 3-6 years of experience in software engineering, especially in Python or similar languages. This role offers competitive compensation, a collaborative environment, and opportunities for personal growth along with benefits like catered lunches and a modern office.

Benefits

Competitive compensation

Catered lunches

Modern office

Qualifications

• 3-6 years of software engineering experience building robust and scalable systems.
• Experience operating and scaling mission-critical systems.
• A track record of leading individual or small projects with limited supervision.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain real-time distributed trading systems.
• Design and optimize large-scale data processing systems.
• Enhance the resilience and performance of trading systems.

Skills

Software engineering

Communication skills

Project management

Education

Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Python

Go

AWS

Apache Airflow

Job description

Voleon is a technology company that applies state-of-the-art AI and 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 AI/ML to investment management. We have become a multibillion-dollar asset manager, and we have ambitious goals for the future.

Youwill be developing the company's production trading systems and the data pipelines that drive our machine learning in both production and research. You will be expected to work closely with both our research and trading teams to support a diverse set of requirements and complex trading behaviors.

Your Team

We seek talented engineers who thrive on solving complex problems with innovative solutions and strong engineering fundamentals. Our team values creative thinking, experimentation, and efficient implementation. You will work alongside experienced engineers from leading tech firms and top academic institutions, collaborating closely with world-class machine learning researchers.

Your colleagues will include internationally recognized experts in artificial intelligence and machine learning research as well as highly experienced finance and technology professionals. The people who shape our company come from other backgrounds, including concert music performances, 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.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain real-time distributed trading systems that execute orders based on our machine learning models
• Design and optimize large-scale data processing systems for historical and real-time ML feature pipelines
• Enhance the resilience and performance of trading and data processing systems
• Build tooling to integrate and validate data from multiple vendors, ensuring consistency and reliability
• Take ownership of technical projects, collaborating closely with research and trading to deliver effective solutions while following best engineering practices

Requierements

• 3-6years of software engineering experience building robust and scalable systems
• Experience operating and scaling mission-critical systems in Python or other languages (Go, C++, R a plus)
• Good communication and project management skills in complex technical domains
• A track record of leading individual or small projects with limited supervision
• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience or interest in mentoring junior engineers
• Familiarity with data-centric workflows and pipeline orchestration (e.g., Apache Airflow)
• Proficiency in data validation, anomaly detection, or debugging using tools like Pandas, Polars, data.table/R
• Experience working with AWS or other cloud platforms
• Knowledge of building and monitoring high-performance, concurrent services

Friends of Voleon Candidate Referral Program

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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.