Senior Quantitative Developer at Man Group
Boston, MA
$150,000–$170,000
Jul 26, 2026
Boston, MA
Jul 27, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior software engineering role embedded within a quantitative investment firm's front-office team, working alongside researchers and portfolio managers. Day-to-day work spans integrating new datasets, building and tuning trading signals, developing portfolio optimization and data visualization tools, and maintaining a Python-heavy research platform backed by a broad stack of data, workflow, and infrastructure technologies. Suits an experienced engineer with a strong quantitative or scientific computing background.
Senior level · 5+ years · Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 70 people in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (data scientists). range 30–100
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $134,944 (middle half $104,979–$169,773).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The role sits in a quantitative finance / front-office engineering context; the alt SOC 15-2051 (Data Scientists) is a plausible runner-up given the heavy scientific Python stack and research-platform work, but the primary day-to-day output is production software engineering.
The database requirement lists 'MS SQL, Postgres, or MongoDB' as interchangeable options under the Essential section; MS SQL is used as the primary name with Postgres and MongoDB captured as alternatives. MongoDB also appears independently in the team's technology stack narrative and is listed separately as a preferred/stack skill.
The full technology stack (Kafka, Airflow, Control-M, Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenStack, Bitbucket, Java, ELK) is described in the 'Our Technology' narrative section rather than under a requirements heading, so those tools are marked preferred.
The degree requirement mentions a preference for degrees with 'high mathematical and computing content' but frames this under Personal Attributes rather than as a hard gate, and no specific degree level is mandated; the degree requirement is therefore None.
No compensation figures are disclosed; the posting references 'competitive compensation' only.
The role is hybrid (3 days/week in the Boston office); it is not fully remote.
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