Software Engineer, Business Process & Automation
Toronto
Software /
Full-time /
Hybrid
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.
Your colleagues will include internationally recognized experts in machine learning research as well as highly experienced technology and finance professionals. The people who shape our company come from other backgrounds, too, including concert music performance, humanitarian aid, opera singing, sports writing, and BMX racing. You will be part of a team that loves to succeed together.
As a Business Processes and Automation Software Engineer, you will develop improvements to our core business process through automation. This role focuses on identifying key uses cases throughout the entire stack of our business processes and working with other employees to automate and improve them. You will work with a variety of customers throughout our business to make our essential operations robust, safe, and easy to use. You will work with a variety of technologies to become a versatile developer, get things done, and improve our business.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with your colleagues – i.e., your customers – to understand areas for improvement and develop plans
- Automate and improve partially automated high-stakes business workflows to ensure the success of our business
- Work with stakeholders and other engineers to design and implement solutions in ambiguous problem spaces
- Design high quality systems that work reliably
Requirements
- Experience developing in a Linux environment with a focus on performance, concurrency, and correctness using programming languages such as C/C++, Java, Go, and Python
- Familiarity with modern deployment and build tooling, such as Kubernetes, Bazel, etc., (preferred)
- Extremely high-quality verbal communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to design, develop, and deploy a back-end application given design specs
- Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders with a wide variety of levels of technical fluency
- Ability to make timelines, communicate them, and deliver on them
- Interest in the quantitative investment business and an eagerness to learn more
- Eagerness to work in diverse teams
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field
- 4 years of experience
- Authorization to work in Canada
“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 USD $7,500 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 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.
