Senior Full-Stack Engineer: Portfolio & Risk Platform

Acadian Asset Management; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Retirement plan

Wellness program

Job summary

Acadian Asset Management in Boston is seeking a senior full-stack engineer to own and evolve a flagship portfolio management and attribution platform used across the firm.

You will build full-stack applications with Python, Ray, and React, design backend systems, optimize reporting across geographies, and collaborate with quants and engineers to advance investment workflows. Hybrid work expects on-site 3 days/week.

Qualifications

• 6–10 years of full‑stack development or portfolio tools engineer experience.
• CFA designation is a plus.
• Strong backend engineering skills: API design, distributed computing, databases.
• Investment domain knowledge in portfolio decomposition or risk analysis.
• Experience optimizing systems for performance, scalability, and cloud deployment.

Responsibilities

• Build, test, and enhance tools to attribute drivers of portfolio positions and risk.
• Support research to improve investment processes via attribution systems.
• Develop full‑stack apps using Python, React, and JavaScript for speed and reliability.
• Design backend systems with Python, Ray, and databases for scalable data processing.
• Optimize and unify reporting across geographies, strategies, and use cases.

Skills

Full-stack development

Portfolio tools

API design

Cloud deployment

Team collaboration

Education

CFA designation (nice to have)

Tools

Python

Ray

React

JavaScript

Relational databases

Non-relational databases

Job description

Acadian Asset Management in Boston is seeking a senior full-stack engineer to own and evolve a flagship portfolio management and attribution platform used across the firm.

You will build full-stack applications with Python, Ray, and React, design backend systems, optimize reporting across geographies, and collaborate with quants and engineers to advance investment workflows. Hybrid work expects on-site 3 days/week.