Software Engineer, Middle Office Systems

About the role

A Career with Point72’s Technology Team

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.

What you’ll do

- Build software applications and deliver software enhancements and projects supporting fund accounting and trade processing technology.

- Work closely with business stakeholders to develop software solutions using test-driven and agile software development methodologies.

- Be responsible for system upgrades and features supporting resiliency and capacity improvements, automation and controls, and integration with internal and external vendors and services.

- Driving architecture of core platforms and accelerating modernizing leveraging AI tools.

- Work with DevOps teams to manage and resolve operational issues and leverage CI/CD platforms while following DevOps practices within the team and projects.

- Continuously improve the platforms using the latest technologies and software development ideas.

- Participate in initiatives to transition select applications to cloud platforms, enhancing stability, scalability and performance of the existing platform.

- Develop close working relationships and collaborate with other technology teams to deliver cross-departmental initiatives.

What’s required

- 3 to 5 years of professional software development experience with a focus on Java based technologies.

- Knowledge of financial products including fixed income, credit, equities, and derivatives and associated accounting, settlement, affirmation processing

- Strong SQL development and experience developing large-scale data warehouses.

- Experience developing projects based on messaging architectures, high volume streaming, and/or transaction processing systems.

- Experience with building and consuming RESTful services.

- Excellent verbal communication skills

- Strong problem solving and analytical skills.

- Understanding of agile methodologies.

- Familiarity with NoSQL databases (Redis, MongoDB)