About the Role
This engineering role sits at the intersection of Man Group's Discretionary (public markets) and Solutions technology teams in New York, serving as the primary NY-based engineer supporting portfolio managers, analysts, and quant functions across both business lines. The role involves hands-on building and operating production systems while acting as the key technical liaison for NY-based stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Build, extend, and maintain Python data pipelines using Pandas, NumPy, and internal libraries.
- Develop and enhance portfolio analytics, risk reporting, and fund data platforms.
- Contribute to AI-powered tools for investment teams, including research databases with vector search and AI integrations for portfolio managers and analysts.
- Build and maintain FastAPI and Flask backends and React/TypeScript frontends using shared component libraries.
- Deploy services to Kubernetes and manage Airflow DAGs for scheduled data workloads.
- Gather requirements, translate business needs into technical solutions, and manage expectations.
- Work directly with portfolio managers, analysts, and quants, understanding their workflows.
- Own production stability for systems in your portfolio, including investigating data quality issues, triaging support requests, and managing incident response.
- Maintain documentation and operational processes.
Requirements
- 2+ years of professional software engineering experience with a strong delivery track record.
- Strong Python skills, including well-tested, modular production code, dataclasses, type hints, OOP, and design patterns.
- Financial services experience, particularly in portfolio management, risk, or investment operations.
- Proficiency in Pandas/NumPy for building efficient data pipelines and transformations at scale.
- Experience with AI/LLM tooling, including building with or integrating LLM-based tools.
- Solid testing discipline (pytest, unit tests, integration tests).
- Comfortable in a Linux environment with Git, virtual environments, and CLI tooling.
- Strong communication skills, able to explain technical decisions to non-technical stakeholders concisely.
- Self-directed, able to manage priorities, flag blockers early, and drive work to completion with autonomy.
- Degree in a STEM subject or equivalent practical experience.
Skills
- Python
- Pandas
- NumPy
- FastAPI
- Flask
- React
- TypeScript
- Kubernetes
- Airflow
- AI tooling
- LLM agents
- Vector search
- RAG
- Git
- Linux
- RESTful services
Location
- New York
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 2+ years
Education Level
- Degree in a STEM subject or equivalent practical experience
Salary/Compensations
- $150,000 - $170,000 USD
Benefits
- Competitive holiday entitlements
- 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)
- Discretionary bonus
- Professional development opportunities
- Flexible working arrangements
- 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.
- Powered by talent and advanced technology, its single and multi-manager investment strategies are underpinned by deep research and span public and private markets, across all major asset classes, with a significant focus on alternatives.
- Man Group takes a partnership approach to working with clients, establishing deep connections and creating tailored solutions to meet their investment goals.
- Headquartered in London, Man Group manages $253.6 billion and operates across multiple offices globally.
- Man Group plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange.
- The Discretionary & Client Solutions Technology team consists of approximately 35 engineers across London, New York, and Sofia, building platforms for Man Group's discretionary investment and client-facing operations.
- The team operates at a high tempo, shipping multiple production releases weekly across portfolio analytics, fund data platforms, client reporting, data pipelines, dashboards, and AI tools.
- Man Group is one of the most active AI-adopting engineering teams, building LLM-powered agents, research tools with vector search, and AI integrations for portfolio managers and analysts.
Equal Opportunity
- Man Group champions equality of opportunity, 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; if you require help or information on reasonable adjustments as you apply.
