At a glance
Build scalable backend systems and AI agents for Volaren’s investment and analytics platform, spanning APIs, data pipelines, quantitative models, internal evaluations, and user-facing automation.
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What you'll do
- Design, build, and maintain high-performance backend systems
- Implement scalable APIs and integrate data sources
- Optimize system reliability
- Write code for large-scale data analysis and processing
- Develop backtesting and quantitative models
- Perform full-stack software development and AI engineering
- Deploy internal AI agents for evaluations, code review, optimization, and process automation
- Deploy user-facing agents that perform tasks for users
- Participate in code reviews and architectural decisions
Requirements
- 01Strong foundation in computer science, algorithms, data structures, and system design
- 02Proficiency in Python and data analysis
- 03Hands-on experience building APIs, services, data pipelines, and deploying AI harnesses and agents
- 04Understanding of object-oriented programming in production systems
- 05Familiarity with SQL/NoSQL databases and high-availability data processing
- 06Interest in financial markets, quantitative investing, or AI-driven products is a plus
Perks
Skills
Full description
Role Description The Software Engineer will design, build, and maintain high-performance backend systems that power Volaren’s investment and analytics platform. Day-to-day responsibilities include implementing scalable APIs, integrating data sources, optimizing system reliability, and collaborating with product and quantitative teams to translate financial and AI-driven requirements into robust software solutions. The role involves writing clean, well-tested code, participating in code reviews, and contributing to architectural decisions that support secure, real-time financial analytics.
Other Responsibilities:
Write code for large scale data analysis and processing, backtesting and quantitative models across the financial markets
Full stack software development and AI engineering
Deploy AI agents that run internally to do run evals, review and optimize code, take care of processes and others.
Deploy user facing agents that do tasks for the users.
This is a full-time hybrid role based in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a mix of on-site collaboration and work-from-home flexibility.
Qualifications
- Strong foundation in Computer Science, including algorithms, data structures, and system design, and AI engineering
- Proficiency in Software Development and Programming with Python and data analysis
- Hands-on experience in Back-End Web Development, building and maintaining APIs, services, data pipelines, and building and deploying AI harnesses and agents.
- Solid understanding of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) principles and their application in production systems.
- Familiarity with databases and data processing (SQL/NoSQL, streaming, or batch processing) in high-availability environments.
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Interest in financial markets, quantitative investing, or AI-driven products is a plus.
About Volaren Inc.
Every great investment starts as an idea about the world. Institutions have teams of analysts turning those ideas into positions. Volaren is that team, processing data through fundamentals and quantitative models that can be personalized with AI. Turn your views into trades, portfolios, and back-testable frameworks and strategies, and Volaren stays with you from there, showing you what's actually driving each position and what it means for your next move.
Compensation: $50K - $150K
Experience: 1+ years