About Man Group
Man Group is a global alternative investment management firm focused on pursuing outperformance for sophisticated clients via our Systematic, Discretionary and Solutions offerings. Powered by talent and advanced technology, our 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 and those of the millions of retirees and savers they represent.
Headquartered in London, we manage $253.6 billion* and operate 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. Further information can be found at www.man.com
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* As at 30 June 2026
The Team
We are a small team within our Markets Platform Engineering group, with the OMS sitting between Numeric strategies and the Man central execution systems which act as the interface to the market. We’re in the core position of the investment process and interact with many other parts of the firm, providing a unique opportunity to build comprehensive knowledge across the trading lifecycle.
Role Responsibilities
As an Senior Java Engineer within the Man Numeric OMT team, you’ll be building and maintaining the Order Management System underpinning the systematic investment process for Numeric. This is an opportunity to work closely with our trading desk, quant strategy teams, and operations to deliver an Order Management System that is flexible, robust, and performant to safely trade millions of orders annually and enable the onboarding of new investment strategies for our clients. You’ll have direct exposure to cash equities, equity swaps, and futures asset classes covering both listed and OTC markets, while building deep understanding in how they’re executed and booked.
This role offers a unique opportunity to learn soup-to-nuts how data is transformed from investment signals into trading decisions ensuring the trading life cycle is robust and scalable. This position requires support coverage and also offers advancement opportunities within Man Front Office Technology.
Our Technology
Our systems run on Linux via containers, with most systems built using Java and a bit of Python. The platform consists of a Tomcat web application along with a suite of microservices running on the Micronaut framework and others on Python. The platform utilizes event sourcing architecture to propagate state events across service domains. We use Git for source control, Jenkins for continuous integration, Jetbrains IntelliJ IDE with GitHub Copilot license, Grafana + Prometheus for metrics collection, Docker for containerisation, Slack for internal communication, and much of the Confluence stack including Jira to run our Scrum sprints. That said, our technology is never static: we constantly evaluate new tools and libraries.
Key Competencies
Required
- Experience with Microservice architectures and libraries (Spring Boot, Micronaut, etc.)
- 5+ years of professional Java experience in an enterprise web application context, including:
- Front End: CSS, JavaScript, JSP, HTML, Ajax, JSON; modern JS libraries such as React, Angular, Node.js
- Middle Tier: Spring MVC or equivalent, Core Spring framework, JPA/Hibernate, Java 8+ (Java 11), Tomcat 8+ (Tomcat 9), messaging frameworks (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
- Back End: Strong SQL and RDBMS knowledge (SQL Server, Oracle), query tuning, stored procedures, exposure to NoSQL (MongoDB)
- Strong SQL and database skills
- Proficiency in Linux shell commands
- Source control experience (Git, SVN, etc.)
- Strong collaborative engineering practices and agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)
- Familiarity with Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence, BitBucket)
- Embracing agentic engineering - willingness to work effectively with AI-assisted development tools as part of daily workflow
Advantageous
- Understanding of financial markets, instruments, and protocols (FIX)
- Experience with front-office software development (trading systems, equity modelling, analytics)
- Experience working closely with Quants and/or Traders
- Expertise in distributed systems with service-based or event-driven architectures
- Web development experience (TypeScript)
- Relevant mathematical knowledge (statistics, asset pricing, time-series analysis, optimisation algorithms)
- Python knowledge
Personal Attributes
- Strong academic record and a degree with high mathematical and 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
- Demonstrable passion for technology e.g. personal projects, open-source involvement
- Intellectually robust with an 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, traders and senior business people alike
- Confident communicator; able to argue a point concisely and deal positively with conflicting views.
The anticipated based salary range for this position is listed below. Compensation packages would also include benefits and a discretionary bonus. This is the base salary range that the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting based on the location and requirements of the position as well as the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant. The Firm reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time.
Inclusion, Work-Life Balance and Benefits at Man Group
You'll thrive in our working environment that champions equality of opportunity. Your unique perspective will contribute to our success, joining a workplace where inclusion is fundamental and deeply embedded in our culture and values. Through our external and internal initiatives, partnerships and programmes, you'll find opportunities to grow, develop your talents, and help foster an inclusive environment for all across our firm and industry. Learn more at www.man.com/diversity.
You'll have opportunities to make a difference through our charitable and global initiatives, while advancing your career through professional development, and with flexible working arrangements available too. Like all our people, you'll receive two annual 'Mankind' days of paid leave for community volunteering.
Our comprehensive benefits package includes competitive holiday entitlements, pension/401k, life and long-term disability coverage, group sick pay, enhanced parental leave and long-service leave. Depending on your location, you may also enjoy additional benefits such as private medical coverage, discounted gym membership options and pet insurance.
Equal Employment Opportunity Policy
Man Group provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants 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.
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 [email protected].
Skills Required
- Experience with microservice architectures and frameworks such as Spring Boot or Micronaut
- At least 5 years of professional Java experience in an enterprise web application environment
- Front-end experience with CSS, JavaScript, JSP, HTML, Ajax, JSON, and modern JavaScript libraries such as React, Angular, or Node.js
- Middle-tier experience with Spring MVC or equivalent, Core Spring, JPA/Hibernate, Java 8 or later, Tomcat, and messaging frameworks such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
- Back-end experience with SQL, relational databases, query tuning, stored procedures, and exposure to NoSQL databases such as MongoDB
- Strong SQL and database skills
- Proficiency with Linux shell commands
- Experience with source control systems such as Git or SVN
- Strong collaborative engineering practices and agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban
- Familiarity with Atlassian tools including Jira, Confluence, or Bitbucket
- Willingness to use AI-assisted development tools in daily engineering workflows
- Understanding of financial markets, instruments, and FIX protocols
- Front-office software development experience, such as trading systems, equity modeling, or analytics
- Experience working with quantitative researchers or traders
- Expertise in distributed systems and service-based or event-driven architectures
- Web development experience with TypeScript
- Mathematical knowledge including statistics, asset pricing, time-series analysis, or optimization algorithms
- Python knowledge
- Strong academic record and a degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Physics, or a related quantitative field
- Strong analytical problem-solving, communication, collaboration, organization, and software engineering skills
What We Do
Man Group is a global active investment management firm, which runs $127 billion* of client capital in liquid and private markets, managed by investment specialists based around the world. Headquartered in London, the firm has 15 international offices and operates across multiple jurisdictions. Our business has five specialist investment engines, which represent the range of our capabilities: Man AHL, Man Numeric, Man GLG, Man FRM and Man GPM. These engines house numerous investment teams, working collaboratively within the framework of Man Group, with a high degree of investment autonomy. Each team benefits from the strength and resources of the firm’s single operating platform, enabling their primary focus to be seeking to generate alpha for clients. The teams invest across a diverse range of strategies and asset classes with highly specialised approaches, with long only and alternative strategies run on a discretionary and quantitative basis in single and multi-manager formats. Our clients are at the heart of everything we do and we engage in close dialogue with our investors as strategic partners, to understand their particular needs and constraints. Man Group’s investment teams are empowered and supported by our institutional infrastructure and technology, which aims to facilitate the efficient exposure to markets and effective collaboration across the organisation.
