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[Remote] Technical Manager, Software Platform

🌍 Remote · United States 💼 Full-time

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The Voleon Group is a technology company applying artificial intelligence and machine learning to finance and investment management. It is seeking a Technical Manager to lead a Software Platform engineering team responsible for foundational services, initially focusing on developer experience, build systems, CI/CD infrastructure, developer tooling, and deployment automation. The role also owns the domain roadmap, develops engineering talent, and collaborates across engineering, infrastructure, research, and security.

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 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

  • Technology talks by our experts
  • A beautiful modern office
  • Daily catered lunches
  • Potential to earn $15,000 if your referred candidate is successfully hired and employed by The Voleon Group, subject to the eligibility, terms and conditions of the Voleon Referral Bonus Program

Company Overview

  • The Voleon Group is a family of companies committed to the development & deployment of cutting-edge technologies in investment management. It was founded in 2008, and is headquartered in Berkeley, California, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is http://voleon.com/.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • The Voleon Group has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2 in 2025, 2 in 2024, 3 in 2023, 4 in 2022, 1 in 2021, 1 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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