Python Engineer

About Man Group

Man Group is one of the world’s largest active investment management firms, focused on delivering attractive performance and client portfolio solutions, and deploying the latest technology across our business to help ensure we stay at the forefront of our evolving industry. Across our investment managers, we provide long-only, alternative and private markets products.

Our clients, and the millions of pensioners and savers that they represent, are at the very centre of everything we do. Our mission is to deliver value-added investment outcomes to those retirees and savers so that they are able to enjoy better long-term retirement conditions. We underpin this focus with our commitment to operating a socially aware and responsible business.

The Role

We’re looking for a high-performing software engineer to join the engineering team of Man Group’s central data platform, named Codex. Projects don’t get much more cross-cutting or high-profile than this: we have hundreds of internal users and whatever you work on will be used by teams across the business for years to come. Fundamentally, we are not a data engineering team: we empower our userbase to become data engineers with our software. This is a great time to join the team as we consider how to expand our offering to the entire business with some true greenfield projects. There are three main pillars of the Codex platform:

• Data Acquisition – an ETL/ELT platform for research and production which scales to multi-terabyte datasets; and can index all data at Man for re-usability and discoverability.
• Data Governance – cataloguing the thousands of datasets at Man; allowing discovery, entitlements, data quality, and end-to-end data lineage.
• Data Delivery – providing a unified interface across the thousands of datasets across Man with a focus on scaling, identifier mapping, and UX.

Technology and Business Skills

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

Essential

• 2-4 years of professional experience in software engineering, ideally in Python.
• Proven track record of collaborating effectively in cross-functional teams, with excellent communication skills.
• Experience building reliable, production-grade applications.
• In-depth working knowledge of one or more relevant database technologies such as Snowflake, PostgreSQL, Iceberg, or MongoDB.
• Strong interest in tackling data challenges at scale.
• Mastery of (at least) one programming language, modern software engineering principles, and clean code practices.

Advantageous

• Comfortable working on Linux platforms and using Git
• Expertise in modern data engineering practices including ELT/ETL tools, distributed storage & processing, and data lakehouses. (Please note that we provide these tools for others rather than using them!)
• Expertise in Python and proficiency with scientific libraries such as Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, statsmodels and scikit-learn
• Experience in quantitative software development within a front-office setting, such as at a hedge fund, proprietary trading firm, or investment bank
• Experience working with large data sets, both structured and unstructured
• Experience building web applications using modern frameworks like React
• Proficient with distributed computing technologies such as Spark, Dask, Kubernetes, Redis
• 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

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 to name a few of the libraries we use extensively. We implement the systems that require the highest data throughput in Java. Within Data Engineering we use Pandas, Dataiku, Snowflake, Prometheus, and ArcticDB heavily.

We use Kafka for data pipelines, Apache Beam for ETL, Bitbucket for source control, Jenkins for continuous integration, Grafana + Prometheus for metrics collection, ELK for log shipping and monitoring, Docker for containerisation, Kubernetes for container orchestration, 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

The Man Group team in Boston team 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, and tweet about relevant technology and how we’re using it. See @manquanttech
• 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.

Equal Employment Opportunity Policy

Man provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment and all 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.

 

Our Culture, Values and Benefits at Man

Man Group is proud to provide the best working environment possible for all of its employees, and we are committed to equal opportunities. At Man Group we believe that a diverse workforce is a critical factor in the success of our business and this is embedded in our culture and values. There are a number of external and internal initiatives, partnerships and programmes that help us to attract and develop talent from diverse backgrounds and that encourage inclusion and diversity across our firm and the industry. Man Group is a Signatory of the Women in Finance Charter and the Race at Work Charter.

Man Group supports many charities, and global initiatives. We support professional training and development, and requests for flexible or part-time working. Employees are also offered two ‘Mankind’ days of paid leave per year as part of the Man Charitable Trust’s community volunteering programme.

We offer comprehensive, firm-wide employee benefits including competitive holiday entitlements, pension/401k, life and long-term disability coverage, group sick pay, enhanced parental leave and long-service leave.  Additional benefits are tailored to local markets and may include private medical coverage, discounted gym membership and wellbeing programmes.

Man Group is a Disability Confident Committed employer; if you require help or information on reasonable adjustments as you apply for roles with us, please contact Peopleoperations@man.com.

 

 

Man Group is a global, technology-empowered active investment management firm focused on delivering alpha and portfolio solutions for clients. Headquartered in London, we manage $174.9 billion* and operate across multiple offices globally.

We invest across a diverse range of strategies and asset classes, with a mix of long only and alternative strategies run on a discretionary and quantitative basis, across liquid and private markets. Our investment teams work within Man Group’s single operating platform, enabling them to invest with a high degree of empowerment while benefiting from the collaboration, strength and resources of the entire firm. Our platform is underpinned by advanced technology, supporting our investment teams at every stage of their process, including alpha generation, portfolio management, trade execution and risk management.

Our clients and the millions of retirees and savers they represent are at the heart of everything we do. We form deep and long-lasting relationships and create tailored solutions to help meet their unique needs.

We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where difference is celebrated and everyone has an equal opportunity to thrive, as well as giving back and contributing positively to our communities. For more information about Man Group’s global charitable efforts, and our diversity and inclusion initiatives, please visit: https://www.man.com/corporate-responsibility

Man Group plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange under the ticker EMG.LN and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. Further information can be found at www.man.com

* As at 30 September 2024. All investment management and advisory services are offered through the investment engines of Man AHL, Man Numeric, Man Discretionary, Man FRM, Man Varagon, Man Global Private Markets and Man Solutions.