Software Engineer, Execution Services

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain React and TypeScript applications for order entry, blotters, dashboards, and risk/position views
• Implement real-time, event-driven UIs (WebSockets/streaming) that handle large, rapidly updating datasets with low latency
• Develop reusable component libraries and contribute to a shared design system, ensuring accessibility, consistent theming, and responsive designOptimize application performance by implementing strategies such as data virtualization, memorization, concurrent processing, efficient network usage, and rendering improvements to ensure smooth and responsive user experiences
• Integrate front-end applications with market data feeds, order and execution management systems (OMS/EMS), and internal APIs by collaborating closely with backend engineers to define and refine data contracts
• Develop and maintain reliable automated tests-such as unit, integration, and end-to-end tests-and manage deployments using CI/CD pipelines, feature flags, and comprehensive monitoring tools to ensure stability and quality in production
• Work directly with traders and product stakeholders to gather business requirements, present demos, receive feedback, and rapidly iterate on features to meet evolving business needs
• Uphold engineering best practices, including code reviews, documentation, security, and accessibility (WCAG/ARIA)
• Help modernize or interoperate with Angular-based applications where needed
• Mentor teammates, share knowledge, and contribute to technical roadmaps
• WHAT'S REQUIRED
• 5+ years of experience building modern web applications, and 3+ years of experience with React and TypeScript in production
• Experience successfully delivering complex, high performance user interfaces for trading platforms, market data visualization, or other real time finance-based applications
• Deep fluency in TypeScript, React hooks, state management (Redux Toolkit, Zustand, MobX, or RxJS), and component architecture
• Experience building high-performance data grids, charts, and dashboards, and comfortability with virtualization and diffing strategies
• Experience with streaming patterns like WebSockets and Server-Sent Events
• Familiarity with Observables/RxJS
• Proficient with testing tools (Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress/Playwright) and modern build tooling (Vite/Webpack, ESLint, Prettier)
• Strong understanding of modern web browsers, including their rendering pipelines, asynchronous programming patterns, use of Web Workers, handling of local storage, and adherence to security best practices.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate trader needs into specs, reduce ambiguity, and drive alignment across engineering, product, and UX
• Strong problem-solving skills, an ownership mindset, and calm execution under time-sensitive conditions
• 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
• ABOUT POINT72
• The annual base salary range for this role is $175,000-$245,000 (USD) , which does not include discretionary bonus compens

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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.

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