Technical Manager, Software Platform

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.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.As Technical Manager, Software Platform Engineering, you will lead an engineering team within the Software Platform organization, which builds and operates the foundational services that power the firm's research and trading systems. The Software Platform organization owns the firm's HPC compute cluster, cloud environments, developer experience tooling, data platform, and operational data systems. The organization is growing, and we are looking for someone excited to be part of a platform team with a broad mandate. Your initial focus will be on developer experience — the build systems, CI/CD infrastructure, developer tooling, and deployment automation that enable engineers to build, test, deploy, and maintain software across the company — with the opportunity to expand into cloud platform services as the team evolves, including intelligent workload placement and routing, cloud resource optimization, cost governance, and operational reliability for research workloads.Your team will deliver highly reliable, performant platforms with high availability, strong observability, and consistent performance. You will improve engineering velocity and researcher productivity by reducing friction, standardizing workflows, and modernizing tooling. You will own the roadmap for your domain, grow and scale the team, and collaborate with peers across engineering, infrastructure, research, and security to balance competing priorities and make thoughtful tradeoffs.ResponsibilitiesManage, grow, and hire for a team of platform and infrastructure engineers — and mentor ICs to continuously raise the technical barBe hands-on technically — dig into code, debug systems, and work alongside the team to solve hard problemsOwn the roadmap for your domain, define ambitious goals, and reliably deliver against themBuild and operate the systems that power the software development lifecycle — build systems, CI/CD, developer tooling, deployment automation — with high reliability, observability, and performanceImprove engineering and researcher productivity by building well-designed platform abstractions, standardizing workflows, and reducing infrastructure frictionPartner across infrastructure, security, research, and engineering to ensure seamless integrationAs the team grows, potentially expand scope into cloud platform services — including workload routing, resource optimization, and cost governanceRequirementsComputer Science degree or equivalent practical experience2+ years of engineering management experience8+ years of professional software engineering experienceDemonstrated experience managing and mentoring engineering teamsProven ability to attract, hire, and retain exceptional engineering talentStrong programming experience in Python, Go, C++, or similarExperience building or operating developer platforms, cloud infrastructure, or internal platform services — ideally with exposure to both on-prem and cloud environmentsExperience operating critical systems with high reliability requirementsKnowledge of best practices for scalable system design and operational excellenceAbility to dive deep technically while maintaining a strategic view of platform architectureStrong communication and collaboration skills across engineering and research organizationsExperience operating critical systems with high reliability and availability requirementsKnowledge of best practices for scalable system design, reliability engineering, and operational excellenceStrong communication skills and ability to drive alignment across stakeholdersPreferred QualificationsExperience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or similar) alongside on-prem systemsExperience with large monorepos, Bazel or similar build systemsExperience improving developer productivity at scaleExperience with CI/CD systems or internal platform engineeringExperience optimizing cloud resource usage or managing cloud cost efficiency at scaleExperience leading teams through cloud adoption or infrastructure modernization“Friends of Voleon” Candidate Referral Program If you have a great candidate in mind for this role and would like to have the potential to earn $15,000 if your referred candidate is successfully hired and employed by The Voleon Group, please use this form to submit your referral. For more details regarding eligibility, terms and conditions please make sure to review the Voleon Referral Bonus Program.Equal Opportunity EmployerThe 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.Compensation Range: $225K - $310K