Software Engineer - Data

Point72 • New York, NY

23h • $200,000 - $300,000

About The Position

As Point72 reimagines the future of investing, our Technology team is constantly evolving our firm’s IT infrastructure and engineering capabilities, positioning us at the forefront of a rapidly evolving technology landscape. We’re a team of experts who experiment and work to discover new ways to harness open-source solutions, modern cloud architectures, and sophisticated Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions, while embracing enterprise agile methodologies. Our commitment to building and innovating in the AI space provides the framework intended to drive smarter decision making and enhance how we build and operate our platforms and applications. As a member of Point72’s Technology team, we encourage and support your professional development from day one—helping you advance your technical skills, contribute innovative ideas, and satisfy your own intellectual curiosity—all while delivering real business impact for our multi-billion-dollar global business.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a similar engineering field
• 3+ years of professional experience in software engineering roles building enterprise-grade systems
• Strong programming skills in Python and experience with team development on business-critical systems
• Experience with relational databases, including schema design and performance tuning
• Exposure to agentic development in a commercial environment
• Exposure to cloud development
• Commitment to the highest ethical standards

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain agentic workflows and tooling that leverage large language models
• Define the service contracts, data models, and integration patterns that will serve as future firmwide standards for data access
• Build high-impact, enterprise-grade data services and pipelines that support research, trading, and AI projects across the firm
• Ensure backend systems are reliable, observable, and performant at scale
• Containerize services and orchestrate workloads to ensure resilient, observable, and scalable deployments together with cloud engineers
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and deployment automation

Benefits

• Fully-paid health care benefits
• Generous parental and family leave policies
• Volunteer opportunities
• Support for employee-led affinity groups representing women, people of color and the LGBT+ community
• Mental and physical wellness programs
• Tuition assistance
• A 401(k) savings program with an employer match

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level