Senior Fullstack Engineer, Portfolio Tools Engineering

Acadian Asset Management is a global systematic investment manager at the forefront of data-driven investing since 1986. Headquartered in Boston with locations in Singapore London and Sydney we manage over $195 billion on behalf of leading institutions worldwideincluding pension funds endowments foundations and sovereign wealth funds. We harness advanced technology rich datasets and multidisciplinary expertise to help clients navigate complex markets and uncover insights that may be overlooked by traditional approaches.

What sets Acadian apart is our people. We foster a collaborative intellectually curious environment where ideas are tested diverse perspectives are welcomed and innovation thrives. Were united by a shared purpose: delivering effective client outcomes and supporting one another in work thats both challenging and rewarding. We offer a flexible hybrid work environment strong benefits and a casual but focused office cultureall designed to support the meaningful collaborative work that defines Acadian.

Position Overview:

This is an opportunity to own and evolve one of the firms flagship internal software products delivering a market-leading portfolio management and decomposition platform that provides a competitive edge in systematic investing.

Acadian supports a hybrid work environment; employees are on-site in the Boston office 3 days a week.

What Youll Do:

Build test and enhance new tools to attribute drivers of portfolio positions returns and risk to alpha risk transaction and liquidity models.

Participate in and facilitate research efforts to improve the investment process informed by feedback from the attribution systems you build.

Develop full-stack applications using Python React JavaScript ensuring speed reliability and maintainability.

Design and implement backend systems using Python Ray and databases for scalable high-performance data processing.

Optimize and unify reporting across multiple geographies strategies and use cases including exception-based management reports.

Implement cloud-ready modular and extensible solutions that are easy to maintain and update as investment needs evolve.

Work with data structures and APIs to ensure fast and efficient access to portfolio insights.

Develop and maintain the internal configuration-based language for portfolio analysis.

Collaborate with portfolio managers quants and engineers to align tools with investment workflows.

Were Looking for Teammates With:

6-10 years of full-stack development or portfolio tools engineer experience using Python Ray React JavaScript and modern front-end frameworks.

CFA designation is a plus.

Strong backend engineering skills including API design distributed parallel computing and experience with both relational and non-relational databases.

Some investment domain knowledge particularly in portfolio decomposition attribution or risk analysis.

Experience optimizing software systems for performance scalability and cloud deployment.

This is an execution-heavy role for an engineer who wants to build fast scalable and maintainable tools that drive real-time investment decision-making.

Understanding of quantitative investment strategies such as those used by Acadian or other quantitative equity managers

Ability to work as an effective team player as well as a self-starter who is willing to roll up their sleeves to help accomplish team goals

Ability to work well in a fast-paced quickly changing environment with time deadlines

The base salary range for this role is $160000 $175000 per year. Actual compensation will be determined based on a candidates skills qualifications and relevant addition to base pay this position may be eligible for discretionary incentive compensation and includes participation in Acadians comprehensive benefits program which includes health retirement and wellness offerings.

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