[Remote] Technical Manager, Software Platform
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The Voleon Group is a technology company that applies state-of-the-art AI and machine learning techniques to real-world problems in finance. As a Technical Manager in Software Platform Engineering, you will lead an engineering team to build and operate foundational services for the firm's research and trading systems, focusing on enhancing developer experience and productivity.
Responsibilities
- Manage, grow, and hire for a team of platform and infrastructure engineers — and mentor ICs to continuously raise the technical bar
- Be hands-on technically — dig into code, debug systems, and work alongside the team to solve hard problems
- Own the roadmap for your domain, define ambitious goals, and reliably deliver against them
- Build and operate the systems that power the software development lifecycle — build systems, CI/CD, developer tooling, deployment automation — with high reliability, observability, and performance
- Improve engineering and researcher productivity by building well-designed platform abstractions, standardizing workflows, and reducing infrastructure friction
- Partner across infrastructure, security, research, and engineering to ensure seamless integration
- As the team grows, potentially expand scope into cloud platform services — including workload routing, resource optimization, and cost governance
Skills
- Computer Science degree or equivalent practical experience
- 2+ years of engineering management experience
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Demonstrated experience managing and mentoring engineering teams
- Proven ability to attract, hire, and retain exceptional engineering talent
- Strong programming experience in Python, Go, C++, or similar
- Experience building or operating developer platforms, cloud infrastructure, or internal platform services — ideally with exposure to both on-prem and cloud environments
- Experience operating critical systems with high reliability requirements
- Knowledge of best practices for scalable system design and operational excellence
- Ability to dive deep technically while maintaining a strategic view of platform architecture
- Strong communication and collaboration skills across engineering and research organizations
- Experience operating critical systems with high reliability and availability requirements
- Knowledge of best practices for scalable system design, reliability engineering, and operational excellence
- Strong communication skills and ability to drive alignment across stakeholders
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or similar) alongside on-prem systems
- Experience with large monorepos, Bazel or similar build systems
- Experience improving developer productivity at scale
- Experience with CI/CD systems or internal platform engineering
- Experience optimizing cloud resource usage or managing cloud cost efficiency at scale
- Experience leading teams through cloud adoption or infrastructure modernization
Benefits
- Highly competitive compensation and benefits packages
- Technology talks by our experts
- A beautiful modern office
- Daily catered lunches
- Friends of Voleon” Candidate Referral Program with potential to earn $15,000 if your referred candidate is successfully hired and employed by The Voleon Group
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