Software Engineer - Data
Overview
As a Software Engineer at Point72, you help build a scalable data platform and workflow tooling that power AI-driven research and trading. You’ll work across APIs, data models, cloud infrastructure, and user experience to deliver trusted data at scale. You collaborate with cross-functional teams to define standards and ensure reliable, observable systems. This role offers a chance to shape enterprise-grade data capabilities inside a fast-evolving tech-driven investment firm.
Compensation / BenefitsFully-paid health care benefitsGenerous parental and family leave policiesVolunteer opportunitiesAffinity groupsMental and physical wellness programsTuition assistance
ResponsibilitiesBuild and maintain agentic workflows and tooling that leverage large language modelsDefine service contracts, data models, and integration patterns for firmwide data accessDevelop enterprise-grade data services and pipelines supporting research, trading, and AI projectsEnsure backend systems are reliable, observable, and performant at scaleContainerize services and orchestrate workloads with cloud engineers for resilient deploymentsContribute to CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and deployment automation
Key requirements3+ years of professional software engineering experience building enterprise-grade systemsStrong Python programming skills with team-based developmentExperience with relational databases, including schema design and performance tuningExposure to agentic development in a commercial environmentExposure to cloud developmentBachelor’s degree in computer science or a similar engineering fieldcollaborative mindsetproblem-solvingeffective communicationPythonrelational databases and schema designcloud development