Man Group is hiring a Senior Python Engineer to work across various teams within our technology organization. You'll tackle diverse challenges spanning systematic trading, quantitative research, a petabyte-scale data platform, and AI solutions. This role offers the opportunity to collaborate with highly skilled engineers while developing core technical and financial services knowledge, working with systems that power critical areas of the business.

What You'll Do

Design and maintain scalable backend systems and APIs that support quantitative research and trading infrastructure
Develop distributed compute applications, optimise performance, and implement monitoring and observability tooling to ensure system reliability
Build high-performance data pipelines for processing large-scale financial datasets using timeseries, SQL, and NoSQL databases
Partner with engineers, researchers, and platform teams to translate complex requirements into technical solutions that integrate with Man Group’s technology estate
Participate in production support rotations and contribute to architecture decisions, code reviews, and engineering best practices across the team

What We're Looking For

Minimum 3 years professional software development experience, primarily using Python
Strong academic record with coursework focused on mathematical and computing content e.g. Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or Science
Experience developing mission-critical production systems, with knowledge of best practices for testing, monitoring, and deployment
Proficient on Linux platforms and strong understanding of Git
Strong knowledge of one or more relevant database technologies e.g. MS SQL, Postgres, or MongoDB
Demonstrated experience working with large data sets, both structured and unstructured
Ability to work independently and gather requirements from stakeholders