Point72

Software Engineer - Data

Point72$200K — $300K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field.
  • 3+ years of software engineering experience with enterprise systems.
  • Strong programming skills in Python.
  • Experience with relational databases, schema design, and performance tuning.
  • Familiarity with agentic development in a commercial setting.
  • Exposure to cloud development techniques.
  • Commitment to high ethical standards.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain workflows using large language models.
  • Define service contracts, data models, and integration standards.
  • Develop high-impact data services and pipelines for various firm projects.
  • Ensure backend systems are reliable, observable, and perform well at scale.
  • Containerize services and manage orchestration for deployments.
  • Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.

Benefits

  • Fully-paid health care benefits.
  • Generous parental and family leave policies.
  • Volunteer opportunities for employees.
  • Support for employee-led affinity groups.
  • Mental and physical wellness programs.
  • Tuition assistance for continuing education.
  • 401(k) savings program with employer match.
Full Job Description
What you'll do

As a software engineer, you will help build the next generation of data infrastructure at the firm-thinking holistically about systems across APIs, data models, cloud infrastructure, and user experience. As demand for direct data access, enriched datasets, and AI-powered workflows grows, you will help create a unified, enterprise-grade data platform with clear ownership, shared standards, and the organizational structure to deliver trusted data at scale. Specifically, you will:
  • 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

What's required
  • 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

We take care of our people

We invest in our people, their careers, their health, and their well-being. When you work here, we provide:
  • 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 and more

The annual base salary range for this role is $200,000-$300,000 (USD) , which does not include discretionary bonus compensation or our comprehensive benefits package. Actual compensation offered to the successful candidate may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level, among other things.

About Point72

Point72 Asset Management is a hedge fund and family office founded by Steven Cohen in 2014. The company is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut and manages over $16 billion in assets. Point72 primarily invests in public equity markets, but also has a private equity arm. The company has a global presence with offices in New York, London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Singapore. Point72 has been involved in several high-profile legal cases, including a $1.8 billion settlement with the SEC in 2013.
Learn more about Point72
Size
1,500 employees
Industry
Founded
2014

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