Senior Fullstack Engineer, Portfolio Tools Engineering

Position Overview:

This is an opportunity to own and evolve one of the firm’s 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 You’ll 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.

We’re 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 $160,000 – $175,000 per year. Actual compensation will be determined based on a candidate’s skills, qualifications, and relevant experience. In addition to base pay, this position may be eligible for discretionary incentive compensation and includes participation in Acadian’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes health, retirement, and wellness offerings.