Software Engineer-Data
| Company | Vola Dynamics |
|---|---|
| Location | New York, NY, USA, Darien, CT, USA |
| Salary | $140000 – $180000 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s |
| Experience Level | Mid Level, Senior |
Requirements
- BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, Data Science, Engineering, or another quantitative discipline
- 2 to 6 years of experience building, deploying, and maintaining robust production-grade data pipelines
- Hands-on experience deploying orchestration frameworks and containerization technologies such as Dagster, Airflow, Prefect, Docker, or Kubernetes
- Skilled at understanding, transforming, analyzing, visualizing, and debugging large numerical datasets
- Proficient in leveraging the scientific Python ecosystem—including Polars, NumPy, Matplotlib, and Jupyter—to explore, analyze, and visualize data effectively
- Confident and effective communicator, capable of independently writing clear, concise documentation and presenting research to colleagues
- Consistently apply software and data engineering best practices, including version control, automated testing, and thorough documentation
- Current authorization to work in the US
Responsibilities
- Develop scalable pipelines to ingest, transform, and analyze real-time and historical options market data
- Build, deploy, and maintain highly scalable, fault-tolerant data pipelines on distributed computing infrastructure
- Create intuitive internal tools, real-time dashboards, and custom reporting to accelerate research and streamline deployment into production
Preferred Qualifications
- Prior industry experience in options market making or derivatives modeling (5 years or less)