Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience

The Voleon Group; Berkeley, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

401(k) plan with company match

20 days PTO and 9 sick days

Job summary

The Voleon Group is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Developer Experience team in a hybrid environment. You will design and evolve the core development platform that enables engineers to build, test, deploy, and maintain software quickly and reliably across the company.

You will partner with multiple teams to reduce friction and modernize tooling. This role emphasizes automation, strong abstractions, and developer productivity at scale, with a focus on centralizing build systems, CI/CD

Qualifications

• CS/Engineering degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Proven track record of software design and implementation with focus on correctness, robustness, efficiency, and scale.
• Expertise in Python, Go, Java or C++.
• Design and implementation of scalable services, tooling, and APIs used by other engineers.
• Experience with build systems and/or monorepos (e.g., Bazel, Buck, or similar).
• Experience with CI/CD systems, test infrastructure, and deployment automation.
• Familiarity with containerization and deployment technologies (e.g., Docker).
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex ideas clearly.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve the build/test/deploy pipeline to be fast, reliable, and automated by default.
• Evolve build-system tooling to meet growing engineering needs.
• Reduce build/test/deployment latency and drive down flaky tests.
• Build and standardize automated deployment pipelines across environments.
• Lead modernization efforts including language/framework upgrades and retirement of end-of-life systems.
• Provide visibility into dependency age and technical risk across the codebase.
• Expand support for AI-assisted development workflows and integrate them into standard tooling.
• Lead complex projects from requirements to design and communication with collaborators.
• Provide technical guidance to engineering and research staff.
• Mentor and grow individual contributors to up-level the team.

Skills

Python

Go

Java

C++

5+ years experience

Strong communication

Education

CS/Engineering degree or equivalent

Tools

Bazel

Buck

CI/CD tooling

Docker

Job description

Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience

Location

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department

Software

Compensation

The listed base salary range for this position is based upon 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.

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 on the Developer Experience (DevEx) team within Software Platform, you will design and evolve the core development platform that enables engineers to build, test, deploy, and maintain software quickly and reliably across the company. The team owns the systems, standards, and tooling that power the software development lifecycle — build systems, CI/CD pipelines, test infrastructure, and deployment automation.

Operating at the center of how the whole engineering org ships code, this is a high-leverage area: the tools you build directly shape the speed, reliability, and quality with which every team at the firm delivers software.

You will partner closely with application engineering, Infrastructure, Security, and ML research teams to reduce friction in common development tasks, standardize workflows, and modernize tooling — enabling engineers and researchers to focus on domain-specific work rather than infrastructure plumbing. This role operates at the developer-platform and tooling layer and emphasizes strong abstractions, automation, and developer productivity at scale.

Your Team

We look for engineers who are motivated by solving complex problems through strong fundamentals and thoughtful system design. You'll work in a highly collaborative environment that values experimentation, clear ownership, and efficient execution. Our team includes experienced engineers from leading technology companies and top academic programs, building the high-leverage tooling that the rest of the firm's engineers rely on every day.

Responsibilities

Design and improve the build test deploy pipeline so it is fast, reliable, and automated by default

Evolve build-system tooling (e.g., Bazel rules and macros) to meet growing engineering needs

Reduce build, test, and deployment latency and drive down slow and flaky tests

Build and standardize automated deployment pipelines across environments

Lead company-wide modernization - language, framework, and dependency upgrades, and retirement of end-of-life systems

Provide visibility into dependency age and technical risk across the codebase

Expand support for AI-assisted development workflows and integrate them into standard tooling

Lead complex projects from start to finish — gathering requirements, translating them into a rational software design, reasoning about supporting or dependent technologies, and communicating effectively with collaborators

Provide technical guidance to engineering and research staff

Mentor and grow individual contributors to continuously up-level the team

Requirements

Computer Science / Engineering degree, or equivalent experience

5+ years of software engineering experience

Proven track record of software design and implementation with focus on correctness, robustness, efficiency, and scale

Expertise in a modern programming language, such as Python, Go, Java or C++

Design and implementation of scalable services, tooling, and APIs used by other engineers

Experience with build systems and/or monorepos (e.g., Bazel, Buck, or similar)

Experience with CI/CD systems, test infrastructure, and deployment automation

Familiarity with containerization and deployment technologies (e.g., Docker)

Work with large codebases and experience building modular, extensible, and maintainable software

Strong communication skills and a proven ability to explain complex ideas with clarity and simplicity

Nice to Have

Experience improving developer productivity at scale

Dependency management and large-scale modernization / upgrade efforts

Integrating AI-assisted development tooling into engineering workflows

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.