Quant Developer - Execution Analytics

The Role

As a Quant Developer within Execution Analytics, you’ll work alongside the trading desk and researchers to build best-in-class analytics at scale. The crux of the challenge is to implement robust, advanced analytics and visualisations across noisy datasets that scale to hundreds of millions of rows. You’ll build a deep understanding of how listed and OTC instruments are traded, developing tools to analyse execution performance and the drivers behind it. The team is small, providing the unique opportunity to influence how Man Group trades trillions annually.

The Team

The Execution Analytics team builds the platform that delivers insight into our execution performance. This varies from systems that allow us to answer questions like “How much has Man’s trading cost in the past year?” to tools that visualise the inner workings of our proprietary execution algorithms. We have direct exposure to every asset class and strategy across the firm, so it's an opportunity to build a deep understanding of the financial markets that underpin Man Group's business.

Our Technology

We leverage the full scientific Python stack to build our systems: NumPy, Pandas and Plotly for visualisation. Our workloads are orchestrated via Airflow on Kubernetes and we’re heavy users of Man Group’s 8000 core Spark cluster for large jobs. For storage we rely on Arctic, Man Group’s timeseries database and for frontend development we typically use Typescript and React.

Working Here

Man Tech 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 host and sponsor London’s PyData and Machine Learning Meetups

• We open-source some of our technology. See github.com/man-group

• We regularly talk at leading industry conferences, and tweet about relevant technology and how we’re using it. See @manquanttech

We’re fortunate enough to have a fantastic open-plan office overlooking the River Thames, and continually strive to make our environment a great place in which to work.

We offer competitive compensation, a generous holiday allowance, along with 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 and best and most highly skilled and passionate technologists.

Essential

• Exceptional technology skills, recognised by your peers as an expert in your domain

• Strong knowledge of Python

• Relevant mathematical knowledge e.g. statistics

• A proponent of strong collaborative software engineering techniques and methods: agile development, continuous integration, code review, unit testing, refactoring and related approaches

• Proficient on Linux platforms with knowledge of various scripting languages

• Proficient with a range of open source frameworks and development tools e.g. NumPy/Pandas/Plotly, React

• Familiarity with a variety of programming styles (e.g. OO, functional)

Advantageous

• Experience of front office quantitative software development e.g. in a hedge fund or investment bank, ideally in an execution context

• Experience building visualisations for large and complex datasets

• Experience with an asset class, whether from an execution or investment point of view

Personal Attributes

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

• Craftsman-like approach to building software; takes pride in engineering excellence and instils these values in others

• 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, traders and senior business people alike

• Confident communicator; able to argue a point concisely and deal positively with conflicting views.

• 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.

• Demonstrable passion for technology e.g. personal projects, open-source involvement.

Work-Life Balance 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 equality of opportunity. 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. We run a number of external and internal initiatives, partnerships and programmes that help us to attract and develop talent from diverse backgrounds and encourage diversity and inclusion across our firm and industry. https://www.man.com/diversity. Man Group is also a Signatory of the Women in Finance 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.