Technical Lead, Macro Middle Office Technology

A Career with Point72’s Technology Team

As Point72 reimagines the future of investing, our Technology group is constantly improving our company’s IT infrastructure, positioning us at the forefront of a rapidly evolving technology landscape. We’re a team of experts experimenting, discovering new ways to harness the power of open source solutions, and embracing enterprise agile methodology. We encourage professional development to ensure you bring innovative ideas to our products while satisfying your own intellectual curiosity.

The Macro Middle Office Trade Processing and Position Team is responsible for the development, maintenance, and automation of the systems that process trade executions into position keeping systems. The systems support a wide range of financial products and asset classes including equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, and credit. The team is global with personnel and service providers located throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.

What you’ll do

We are looking for an experienced technology professional to develop systems for trade flow processing and life cycle management for the macro business. This is a hands-on role automating and simplifying business process, as well as architecting and developing new systems in collaboration with the broader Middle Office team and stakeholders.

• You will provide technology leadership to junior members of the team, manage goals and priorities set forth by your management, and guide the team through the development, maintenance, and modernization of the technology platform
• You will work with teams in New York and Warsaw on low latency position keeping systems and data models to serve the Global Macro business and more
• You will make critical contributions to enhancing the business/technology relationship among Macro Middle Office Technology, Macro Front Office Technology, and stakeholders
• In addition to tactical development, you will be responsible for delivering and creating programs to modernize and scale the position keeping platform through technology upgrades, cloud technology adoption, and re-architecting business processes

What’s required

• 8-10 years of software development life cycle (Agile) experience, specialized in C# .Net, SQL with strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, test driven development etc
• 3 years of financial services industry experience in trade processing and position keeping in one or more of Fixed Income, Credit, FX, Equities and various derivatives products
• 2 years of experience in mentoring and leading teams of on-shore and off-shore developers
• Experience building integrations with vendor systems that are maintainable and supportable
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a proven track record of improving the stability and scalability of the platform, simplifying technology, and design thinking
• Experience managing projects based on cloud, microservice, messaging architectures, caching technologies, high volume streaming and/or transaction processing systems
• Expertise in the software development life cycle (Agile) and software development tools
• Experience working with a books and records system such as Murex or Orchestrade.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• 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
• Mental and physical wellness programs
• Volunteer opportunities
• Non-profit matching gift program
• Support for employee-led affinity groups representing women, minorities and the LGBT community
• Tuition assistance
• A 401(k) savings program with an employer match and more

About Point72

Point72 Asset Management is a global firm led by Steven Cohen that invests in multiple asset classes and strategies worldwide. Resting on more than a quarter-century of investing experience, we seek to be the industry’s premier asset manager through delivering superior risk-adjusted returns, adhering to the highest ethical standards, and offering the greatest opportunities to the industry’s brightest talent. We’re inventing the future of finance by revolutionizing how we develop our people and how we use data to shape our thinking. For more information, visit www.Point72.com/working-here

The annual base salary range for this role is $250,000-$350,000 (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.