Portfolio Manager, Options & Derivatives

🕒 April 1

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

👔 Manager

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Farther

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51 - 200 employees

🛡️ Insurance

💼 Consulting

💸 Finance

💰 $15M Series A on 2022-05

Insurance • Consulting • Finance

Farther is a company dedicated to comprehensive wealth management, assisting clients in growing their wealth for generations. With over $5 billion in assets under management and ongoing exponential growth, Farther leverages experienced advisors and a data-driven wealth platform to provide personalized guidance and set new standards in financial planning. The company's proprietary technology empowers advisors to give unbiased, client-aligned advice and spend more time catering to each client's unique needs. Farther offers its clients support from a full team of financial experts, including estate attorneys, CPAs, and insurance specialists, ensuring thorough financial support and maximizing the impact of wealth for all financial milestones.

📋 Description

• Research, prototype, and back test options overlay strategies in Python, including covered calls, cash-secured puts, collars, and protective overlays • Support portfolio managers across equity and fixed income verticals by designing and applying derivatives-based overlays • Monitor portfolio-level Greeks, exposures, and risk/return outcomes across many smaller accounts within rules-based risk parameters • Build and maintain research code, data pipelines, and analytics for systematic strategy design, including signal construction, parameter sweeps, scenario analysis, and regime analysis • Translate research into clear, rules-based strategy specifications and playbooks for consistent implementation at scale • Evaluate overlay ideas for income generation, hedging, and outcome-oriented strategies, and communicate trade-offs to internal stakeholders • Partner with product managers and engineers to convert manual workflows and research into scalable platform capabilities, including strategy engines, trade generation, risk dashboards, and monitoring tools • Support daily P&L, risk, and performance monitoring, including exception handling for unusual portfolio events

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in quantitative research, investment analytics, systematic strategies, or a closely related role at a buy-side firm, asset manager, fintech, or financial services company • Solid Python skills for research and analytics, including data pulls, optimization, back testing, risk metrics, and clean, maintainable codebases • Strong mathematical foundation in operations research, statistics, or quantitative finance • Experience working with SMAs or systematic investment strategies at scale, including multi-account implementation, portfolio construction, and associated operational complexity • Comfortable collaborating with technical product and engineering teams and thinking in terms of systems and workflows • Curious, self-directed, and comfortable operating in lean environments • Clear communicator who can explain quantitative concepts to non-technical stakeholders • Familiarity with options, Greeks, volatility surfaces, or derivatives-based strategies • Experience specifically with fixed income or equity SMAs, including multi-account implementation, tax-aware trading, and lot-level considerations • Prior exposure to portfolio management, risk, or trading platforms such as OEMS, risk systems, or SMA overlay engines • Experience at a fintech or RIA where technology and investment management intersect • Familiarity with custodian or brokerage platforms used by advisors, such as Schwab or Fidelity

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive comp package that rewards impact • Work alongside some of the brightest minds in fintech • Ground-floor opportunity at a fast-scaling startup • Chart your own growth path as we expand • Full health benefits • 401(k) matching • Roth IRA options • Unlimited PTO