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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Voleon Capital Management LP, a startup quantitative hedge fund located in Berkeley, California. We would like to hire a senior software engineer as soon as possible.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Voleon’s founders previously worked together at one of the most successful quantitative hedge funds in the world. Our CEO has a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford and has
been CEO and founder of a successful Internet infrastructure startup. Our Chief Investment Officer has a PhD in Statistics from Berkeley. Voleon’s team includes PhD's from leading departments in statistics, computer science, and mathematics. We have made several
unpublished advances in the field of machine learning and in other areas as well.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Here is our formal job description:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">* Senior Software Engineer *<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Technology-driven investment firm employing cutting-edge statistical machine learning techniques seeks an exceptionally
capable software engineer. You will architect and implement new production trading systems, machine learning infrastructure, data integration pipelines, and large-scale storage systems.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The firm researches and deploys systematic trading strategies designed to generate attractive returns without being
dependent on the performance of the overall market. Join a team of under 30 people that includes a Berkeley statistics professor as well as over ten PhD's from Berkeley, Chicago, CMU, Princeton, Stanford, and UCLA, led by the founder and CEO of a successful Internet
infrastructure technology firm. The firm’s offices are walking distance from BART and the UC Berkeley campus in downtown Berkeley, California. We have a casual and collegial office environment, weekly catered lunches, and competitive benefits packages.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">We seek candidates with a proven track record of writing correct, well-designed software, solving hard problems,
and delivering complex projects on time. You should preferably have experience designing and implementing fault-tolerant distributed systems. Experience with building large-scale data infrastructure, stream processing systems, or latency-sensitive programs
is a bonus.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">We are growing rapidly. Willingness to take initiative and a gritty determination to productize are essential.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Required experience:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">- developing with C/C++/Python/Go in a Linux environment with a focus on performance, concurrency, and correctness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">- experience with functional programming environments (Haskell, Erlang, others).<br>
- working in TCP/IP networking, multi-threading, and server development.<br>
- working with common Internet protocols (IP, TCP/UDP, SSL/TLS, HTTP, SNMP, etc.).<br>
- architecting and designing highly available systems.<br>
- architecting and designing large-scale data management infrastructure.<br>
- working in large codebases and building modular, manageable code.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Preferred experience.:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">- debugging and performance profiling, including the use of tools such as strace, valgrind, gdb, tcpdump, etc.<br>
- working with build and test automation tools.<br>
- working with well-defined change management processes.<br>
- diagnosing RDBMS performance problems, exploiting indexing, using EXPLAIN PLAN, optimizing at the code layer, etc.<br>
- working with messaging queues (RabbitMQ, Redis, etc.) as well as distributed caching systems.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Interest in financial applications is essential, but experience in finance is not a primary factor in our hiring.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Benefits and compensation are highly competitive.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The above job description is just a starting point in terms of possible duties and seniority. We can be very flexible for the right person.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">If you are interested or if you know of anyone who might be interested, let me know the best way to get in touch and we can discuss details.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">Charles Weitzer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">Senior Recruiter<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">Voleon Capital Management LP<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:blue"><a href="mailto:Charles@Voleon.com">Charles@Voleon.com</a></span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
Office: 510.704.9870 x 7012<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">Mobile: (510) 558-9182<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">www.Voleon.com<br>
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