Acadian Asset Management LLC is a Boston-headquartered investment management firm with wholly owned affiliates located in Singapore, London, and Sydney. As of March 31, 2025, the firm managed approximately US$121 billion on behalf of major pension funds, endowments, foundations, governments and other investors based in the U.S. and abroad.
Position Overview:
This is an opportunity to own and evolve one of the firm’s flagship internal software products, delivering a market-leading portfolio management and decomposition platform that provides a competitive edge in systematic investing.
Acadian supports a hybrid work environment; employees are on-site in the Boston office 3 days a week.
What You’ll Do:
- Lead and manage a team of highly skilled portfolio tools engineers/full-stack engineers developing and enhancing a suite of portfolio management tools focused on decomposition, attribution, risk analysis, and transparency across portfolios.
- Architect and build the next-generation version of the portfolio decomposition and analytics platform, ensuring it is extremely fast, flexible, and scalable to meet the evolving needs of portfolio managers.
- Develop and maintain a rich, configuration-based language that enables portfolio managers to slice and dice portfolios at multiple levels (portfolio-level, asset-class level, etc.).
- Enhance capabilities for portfolio-level decomposition of weights, returns, and risks, allowing detailed breakdowns by classifications, geographies, strategies, factors, and asset classes.
- Design and implement enterprise-grade investment applications that are robust, battle-tested, and optimized for performance and usability.
- Work side-by-side with portfolio managers across equities, credit, and multi-strategy in Boston, Singapore, London, and Sydney, ensuring the tools align with their investment workflows.
- Ensure seamless integration of real-time investment insights into portfolio managers’ decision-making processes, enabling them to answer questions on the spot without dependencies on other teams.
- Set direction for engineering, ensuring best practices in software architecture, scalability, and maintainability while remaining hands-on in development.
- Drive innovation in investment data workflows, optimizing how portfolio data is processed, stored, and queried to provide instantaneous insights.
- Collaborate closely with quantitative researchers, risk teams, and data engineers to ensure the investment stack is well-integrated and efficient.
- Leverage technologies such as Python, React, JavaScript, Streamlit, Dash, and other data application frameworks to create intuitive, high-performance tools.
- Foster a high-performance engineering culture, ensuring best-in-class code quality, execution speed, and maintainability.
We’re Looking for Teammates With:
- · Extensive experience (10+ years) of leading and managing full-stack engineering teams in a quantitative finance, hedge fund, or asset management environment.
- · CFA designation is a plus.
- · Deep domain knowledge of the pre-trade investment process, including portfolio construction, risk management, and factor-based investing.
- · Hands-on expertise in developing financial applications using Python, React, JavaScript, and related technologies.
- · Experience working with portfolio decomposition, attribution, risk modeling, and classification frameworks.
- · Strong understanding of investment data structures and the full investment technology stack, including data modeling, storage, and retrieval at scale.
- · Prior experience building high-performance, low-latency investment tools that enable real-time analysis and decision-making.
- · Familiarity with data visualization and interactive frameworks such as Streamlit, Dash, and web-based analytics applications.
- · Strong leadership and technical vision-setting skills, with the ability to drive execution while maintaining a hands-on role in development.
- · A track record of delivering scalable, flexible software platforms that enhance portfolio transparency and decision-making.
- Additional qualities which would be preferred include:
- · Understanding of quantitative investment strategies such as those used by Acadian or other quantitative equity managers
- · Ability to work as an effective team player, as well as a self-starter, who is willing to roll up their sleeves to help accomplish team goals
- · Ability to work well in a fast-paced, quickly changing environment with time deadlines
To apply for this position or view Acadian’s open roles, please visit the Careers section of our website at: http://www.acadian-asset.com/careers/Job-opportunities. We will contact only selected candidates. If you are a candidate with a disability, or are assisting a candidate with a disability, and require an accommodation to apply for one of our jobs, please email us at [email protected].
Acadian Asset Management LLC is committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants. No employee or applicant shall be discriminated against on the basis of gender, race, creed, color, sex, age, national origin, marital status, pregnancy or parenthood, veteran status, citizenship status, disability, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
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What We Do
Acadian Asset Management is a global, systematic investment manager. Founded in 1986, Acadian is head-quartered in Boston, with affiliates in London, Singapore, and Sydney. We find our edge in the convergence of talented people, rich data, and powerful tools – all underpinned by a collegial culture with an ardent appetite for continuous research and healthy debate.
Building on the idea that markets are inefficient, we were among the first firms in the world to apply data and technology to the systematic evaluation of global investments. With over 35 years of data-driven insights, we manage equity and credit strategies intended to deliver active returns and alternative strategies designed to deliver absolute, uncorrelated results. Our sustainable investing capabilities provide a platform for both client-specific solutions and a cutting-edge approach to engagement.
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