Tech Lead 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 Tech Lead Manager (TLM), 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 TLM, 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.