About the Role
This is an engineer role within the Man Direct Lending technology team in New York, working side-by-side with investment professionals and in collaboration with the wider Discretionary tech department in the UK. You will contribute to building and maintaining production systems across the full stack — data pipelines, analytics platforms, web tools, and AI-powered automation — while developing a close understanding of the investment team’s workflows and helping them embrace new technology.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to building and maintaining production systems across the full stack, including data pipelines, analytics platforms, web tools, and AI-powered automation.
- Develop a close understanding of investment team workflows.
- Help investment teams embrace new technology.
Requirements
- Strong collaborative software engineering techniques and methods, including agile development, continuous integration, code review, unit testing, and refactoring.
- Proficiency on Linux platforms with knowledge of various scripting languages.
- Experience with data analysis techniques and relevant libraries (e.g., NumPy/SciPy/Pandas).
- Experience with web-based development and visualization technology for portraying large and complex data sets and relationships.
- Experience building with or integrating AI/LLM-based tools.
- Strong academic record and a degree with high mathematical and computing content (e.g., Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or Physics), or equivalent work experience.
- Craftsman-like approach to building software, taking pride in engineering excellence.
- Demonstrable passion for technology (e.g., personal projects, open-source involvement, or active engagement with the AI tooling space).
- Intellectually robust with a keenly analytic approach to problem-solving.
- Self-organized with the ability to effectively manage time across multiple projects and competing business demands and priorities.
- Strong interpersonal skills, able to establish and maintain close working relationships with investment professionals and senior business stakeholders.
- Confident communicator, able to argue a point concisely and deal positively with conflicting views.
Skills
- Python
- Linux
- Scripting languages
- Data analysis techniques
- NumPy
- SciPy
- Pandas
- Web-based development
- Visualization technology
- AI/LLM-based tools
- Private credit or direct lending investment (advantageous)
- Financial markets and instruments (advantageous)
- Statistics (advantageous)
- Optimisation algorithms (advantageous)
- LLM agent frameworks (advantageous)
- Vector search (advantageous)
- RAG pipelines (advantageous)
- Kubernetes (advantageous)
- Containerisation (advantageous)
- Airflow (advantageous)
- C#/.NET (advantageous)
Location
- New York
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- All levels
Education Level
- Degree with high mathematical and computing content (e.g., Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or Physics), or equivalent work experience.
Salary/Compensations
- $130,000—$150,000 USD
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Generous holiday allowance
- Various health and other flexible benefits
- Continuous learning and development via coaching, mentoring, regular conference attendance and sponsoring academic and professional qualifications
- Pension/401k
- Life and long-term disability coverage
- Group sick pay
- Enhanced parental leave
- Long-service leave
- Private medical coverage (location dependent)
- Discounted gym membership options (location dependent)
- Pet insurance (location dependent)
- Two annual 'Mankind' days of paid leave for community volunteering
About the Company
- Man Group is a global alternative investment management firm focused on pursuing outperformance for sophisticated clients via its Systematic, Discretionary and Solutions offerings.
- Man Group manages $228.7 billion and operates across multiple offices globally.
- Man Group plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange under the ticker EMG.LN and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
- Man Direct Lending is a specialist middle-market direct lender, focused on creating value-added financing solutions to private equity sponsors and investors in private credit since 2014.
- The Man Direct Lending technology team is part of Man’s Discretionary Technology department, with 20 engineers across London and New York building platforms for Man Group’s discretionary investment and client-facing operations.
- The team works closely with front-office investment professionals in New York and the broader Discretionary tech department in the UK.
- The team focuses on integration and automation of deal pipelines, data flows, and report generation, leveraging Man’s technology platform.
- Generative AI and LLM-powered tooling are a growing and strategically important part of their work.
- Man Technology has a small company, no-attitude feel, is flat structured, open, transparent, and collaborative.
- Man Group offers opportunities for growth and significant impact.
- Man Group is actively engaged with the broader technology community, open-sources some of its technology, and regularly talks at leading industry conferences.
Equal Opportunity
- Man Group champions equality of opportunity.
- Man Group's workplace is one where inclusion is fundamental and deeply embedded in its culture and values.
- Man Group provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, creed, national origin, ancestry, religion, disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, age or any other legally protected category or status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.
- Man Group is a Disability Confident Committed employer.
