About the job

 

We are establishing a substantial presence in Sofia, intended to develop a centre of excellence, fostering seamless collaboration and integrated workflows among teams, we aim to drive innovation and establish a leading edge in the industry.

 

This is an outstanding opportunity to join one of the largest alternative asset managers in the world. Technology is central to Man’s business strategy and we are constantly looking at better ways of doing things. Our culture embraces change; indeed change is the norm rather than the exception in a constantly evolving organisation and industry.

We are looking for skilled engineers with a genuine passion for technology to work within our C# Software Engineering teams. You will work on solutions in critical areas for an asset manager such as order management, trade settlement, risk management, fund accounting and client reporting.

 

Job Profile Summary:

 

You will work as part of a software engineering team aligned with one of our business or technical domains building new solutions, or adding new functionality to existing solutions, for one of the key C# systems that run Man Group's operating platform. We strongly believe in the 'you build it, you run it' principle and our software engineers will spend some time fixing, optimising and improving the resilience of their systems.

 

This opening has the potential to be high profile role with extensive interaction with business stakeholders and senior management across Man Group, so would suit individuals who thrive in those environments.

 

Responsibilities:

 

• Owning the end-to-end delivery process - from requirements gathering through to development, testing, and coordinating deployment to production

• Participating in/owning the planning, design, and delivery of longer-term projects

• Participate in code reviews and knowledge sharing amongst peers

• View stakeholder interaction as integral to successful delivery

• Continuous improvement of production components such as reducing tech debt, increasing release quality, and improving resource utilization

• Encourage and drive adoption of best practices and help improve business knowledge and understanding within the team

• Support for production systems and BAU requests

• Mentoring team members

 

Key Skills & Experience:

 

• Strong delivery focused approach, ensuring business value is being met

• C# and .NET

• Query writing, schema design and performance tuning in MS SQL Server

• Ability to balance business delivery and incremental adoption of new architectural platform features

• Proponent of collaborative software engineering techniques and methods

• Demonstrable experience in managing local and remote team members

• Confident communicator - able to argue a point concisely and deal positively with conflicting views

 

Useful Experience:

 

• Any working knowledge of Python, Kafka, React