Senior Java Engineer

We are a small team within our Markets Platform Engineering group, with the OMS sitting between Numeric strategies and the Man central execution systems which act as the interface to the market. We’re in the core position of the investment process and interact with many other parts of the firm, providing a unique opportunity to build comprehensive knowledge across the trading lifecycle., As an Senior Java Engineer within the Man Numeric OMT team, you’ll be building and maintaining the Order Management System underpinning the systematic investment process for Numeric. This is an opportunity to work closely with our trading desk, quant strategy teams, and operations to deliver an Order Management System that is flexible, robust, and performant to safely trade millions of orders annually and enable the onboarding of new investment strategies for our clients. You’ll have direct exposure to cash equities, equity swaps, and futures asset classes covering both listed and OTC markets, while building deep understanding in how they’re executed and booked.

This role offers a unique opportunity to learn soup-to-nuts how data is transformed from investment signals into trading decisions ensuring the trading life cycle is robust and scalable. This position requires support coverage and also offers advancement opportunities within Man Front Office Technology.

Our Technology

Our systems run on Linux via containers, with most systems built using Java and a bit of Python. The platform consists of a Tomcat web application along with a suite of microservices running on the Micronaut framework and others on Python. The platform utilizes event sourcing architecture to propagate state events across service domains. We use Git for source control, Jenkins for continuous integration, Jetbrains IntelliJ IDE with GitHub Copilot license, Grafana + Prometheus for metrics collection, Docker for containerisation, Slack for internal communication, and much of the Confluence stack including Jira to run our Scrum sprints. That said, our technology is never static: we constantly evaluate new tools and libraries.

• Experience with Microservice architectures and libraries (Spring Boot, Micronaut, etc.)

• 5+ years of professional Java experience in an enterprise web application context, including: *

• Front End: CSS, JavaScript, JSP, HTML, Ajax, JSON; modern JS libraries such as React, Angular, Node.js
• Middle Tier: Spring MVC or equivalent, Core Spring framework, JPA/Hibernate, Java 8+ (Java 11), Tomcat 8+ (Tomcat 9), messaging frameworks (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
• Back End: Strong SQL and RDBMS knowledge (SQL Server, Oracle), query tuning, stored procedures, exposure to NoSQL (MongoDB)
• Strong SQL and database skills
• Proficiency in Linux shell commands
• Source control experience (Git, SVN, etc.)
• Strong collaborative engineering practices and agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)
• Familiarity with Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence, BitBucket)
• Embracing agentic engineering - willingness to work effectively with AI-assisted development tools as part of daily workflow

Advantageous

• Understanding of financial markets, instruments, and protocols (FIX)
• Experience with front-office software development (trading systems, equity modelling, analytics)
• Experience working closely with Quants and/or Traders
• Expertise in distributed systems with service-based or event-driven architectures
• Web development experience (TypeScript)
• Relevant mathematical knowledge (statistics, asset pricing, time-series analysis, optimisation algorithms)
• Python knowledge, * 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 an 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 quantitative researchers, traders and senior business people alike
• Confident communicator; able to argue a point concisely and deal positively with conflicting views.

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, Inclusion, Work-Life Balance and Benefits at Man Group You’ll thrive in our working environment that champions equality of opportunity. Your unique perspective will contribute to our success, joining a workplace where inclusion is fundamental and deeply embedded in our culture and values. Through our external and internal initiatives, partnerships and programmes, you’ll find opportunities to grow, develop your talents, and help foster an inclusive environment for all across our firm and industry. Learn more at www.man.com/diversity.

You’ll have opportunities to make a difference through our charitable and global initiatives, while advancing your career through professional development, and with flexible working arrangements available too. Like all our people, you’ll receive two annual ‘Mankind’ days of paid leave for community volunteering.