Software Engineer - Data

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced engineer to join the Data Engineering team within Man Platform Technology. You will have the chance to boost your career in a fast-paced and ambitious team that strives to create state-of-the-art tools for a range of data-related activities including onboarding, analysis, sourcing, quality checking, and lifecycle management. We don’t just have a standard data warehouse – our data estate is varied and highly optimised to deliver the needs of the business. Your challenges will be varied, involving:

• Developing and maintaining core tools for analysts, quants, and engineers to on-board and analyse datasets at multi-terabyte-scale.
• Collaborating with the Man Data Science team as we design and develop unique, bespoke solutions to solve their big data challenges.
• Designing and implementing strategies and tools to monitor and validate the data quality for thousands of datasets in use at Man Group.
• Working with front office engineering teams as they leverage our data platform.
• Discovering and leveraging best-in-market 3rd party tools and cloud technologies that can help to optimise the full data pipeline from scouting to trading.

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 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

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

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 organise regular social events, everything from photography through climbing, karting, wine tasting and monthly team lunches.
• We have annual away days and off-sites for the whole team.
• As well as PCs and Macs, in our office you’ll also find numerous pieces of cool tech such as light cubes and 3D printers, guitars, ping-pong and table-football, and a piano.

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.

Technology and Business Skills

• Extensive programming experience, ideally in Python.
• Knowledge of the challenges of dealing with large data sets, both structured and unstructured.
• Knowledge of modern practices for ETL, data engineering and stream processing.
• Proficient on Linux platforms with knowledge of various scripting languages.
• Working knowledge of one or more relevant database technologies e.g. MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Oracle.
• Proficient with a range of open source frameworks and development tools e.g. NumPy/SciPy/Pandas, Spark, Jupyter.

Advantageous

• Prior experience of working with financial market data or alternative data.
• Relevant mathematical knowledge e.g. statistics, time-series analysis.
• Experience in data visualisation and building web apps in modern frameworks e.g. React.
• Experience with git.
• Prior experience with AWS.

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 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 analysts, quantitative researchers, traders and senior business people alike.
• Confident communicator; able to argue a point concisely and deal positively with conflicting views.

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. 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.