Senior Quantitative Developer

The Role

As a Senior Quantitative Developer in the Front-office Engineering organization at Man Systematic, you will work closely with Quantitative Researchers and Portfolio Managers. Your challenges will be varied and may include onboarding new datasets, implementing new trading signals, developing portfolio optimization tools, building data visualization frameworks, enhancing our research platform, and performance tuning existing code using efficient numerical algorithms and cluster-computing solutions.

Our Technology

Our systems are almost all running on Linux and most of our code is in Python, with the full scientific stack: NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, statsmodels, and scikit-learn to name a few of the libraries we use extensively. We implement the systems that require the highest data throughput in Java. For storage, we rely heavily on MongoDB and MS SQL.

We use Control-M and Airflow for workflow management, Kafka for data pipelines, Bitbucket for source control, Jenkins for continuous integration, Grafana + Prometheus for metrics collection, ELK for log shipping and monitoring, Docker for containerisation, OpenStack for our private cloud, Ansible for architecture automation, and Slack for internal communication. Our technology list is never static: we constantly evaluate new tools and libraries.

Working Here

Man Systematic has a small company, no-attitude feel. It is flat structured, open, transparent and collaborative, and you will have plenty of opportunity to grow and have enormous impact on what we do.  We are actively engaged with the broader technology community.

We regularly talk at leading industry conferences across the globe

We host and sponsor Boston meetups and London’s PyData and Machine Learning Meetups

We open-source some of our technology, including our ultra-high-performance DataFrame database, ArcticDB. See https://github.com/man-group for a full list and more information.

We’re fortunate enough to have a fantastic open-plan office overlooking the Boston harbour, and continually strive to make our environment a great place in which to work. We believe that agile working allows us to deliver the best business outcomes for our clients and investors as well as having a positive impact on work-life balance and the wellbeing of our staff. We are simultaneously committed to “levelling the playing field” and believe that agile working promotes inclusivity across teams, regions and business units. In general, Technology roles are expected to be in the office for 3 days a week. However, the specifics can vary based on the role, team, and individual circumstances, and are ultimately subject to the manager’s discretion.

We offer competitive compensation, a generous holiday allowance, various health and other flexible benefits. We are also committed to continuous learning and development via coaching, mentoring, regular conference attendance and sponsoring academic and professional qualifications.

Technology and Business Skills

We strive to hire only the brightest, best and most highly skilled, passionate technologists.

Essential

5-7 years of professional experience in software engineering, preferably with a focus on quantitative applications

Expert knowledge of Python and Pandas and proficiency with related scientific libraries including NumPy, SciPy, statsmodels, and scikit-learn

Experience developing mission-critical production systems, with knowledge of best practices for testing, monitoring, and deployment

Proficient on Linux platforms and strong understanding of Git

Working knowledge of one or more relevant database technologies, such as MS SQL, Postgres, or MongoDB

Demonstrated experience working with large data sets, both structured and unstructured

Advantageous

Experience in quantitative software development within a front-office setting, such as at a hedge fund, proprietary trading firm, or investment bank

Experience mentoring junior team members and managing projects

Experience building web applications using modern frameworks like React

Proficient with distributed computing technologies such as Spark, Dask, Kubernetes, Redis Knowledge of modern data engineering practices including data pipeline & ETL tools, distributed storage & processing and data warehousing

Strong understanding of financial markets and instruments

Experience working with financial market data

Relevant mathematical knowledge e.g., statistics, time-series analysis

Personal Attributes

Strong academic record and a degree with high mathematical and computing content e.g., Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or Physics

Intellectually robust with a keenly analytic approach to problem solving

Self-organised with the ability to effectively manage time across multiple projects and with competing business demands and priorities

Focused on delivering value to the business with relentless efforts to improve process

Strong interpersonal skills: able to establish and maintain a close working relationship with quantitative researchers, portfolio managers, traders and senior business people alike

Confident communicator: able to argue a point concisely and deal positively with conflicting views

The anticipated based salary range for this position is listed below. Compensation packages would also include benefits and a discretionary bonus. This is the base salary range that the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting based on the location and requirements of the position as well as the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant.  The Firm reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time.

US Pay Range

$150,000—$170,000 USD