Quantitative Developer
Posted 25 Jun 2026
Advertised as “Lead Quantitative Developer - Systematic”
BranchFactor Summary
The original posting with the fluff stripped out
- Expected experience
- 5+ yrs
- Management level
- People management
No salary listed for this role.
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 Role
We're setting up a new engineering team in Shanghai, working hand-in-hand with Portfolio Managers to develop and deploy new systematic trading strategies. As a Lead Software Engineer in the Front-Office Engineering organization, your code will have a direct line of sight to live markets.
Your work will span the full lifecycle of strategy development: onboarding new datasets, implementing trading signals, building portfolio optimization tools, developing data visualization frameworks, and enhancing our research platform. You'll solve performance-critical problems using efficient numerical algorithms and cluster-computing solutions.
This is a chance to get in early and do engineering work that visibly moves the needle.
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, statsmodels, and scikit-learn to name a few of the libraries we use extensively. For storage, we rely heavily on MongoDB and MS SQL.