5 months ago
Warsaw, PolandMid Level
Responsibilities
- Build and scale the research-to-trading platform from quantitative strategy prototype through production.
- Develop high-performance analytics and pricing libraries in C++ and Python for backtesting, simulation, and real-time decision-making.
- Translate ideas from investment professionals into robust production code and reproducible experiments.
- Develop and maintain pipelines and storage solutions for large historical and real-time market datasets.
- Deploy, monitor, and operate production services, including testing, release processes, and incident response.
- Optimize code paths and infrastructure for performance and latency using profiling and benchmarking.
- Create tooling for experiment management, post-trade analysis, and model validation.
- Contribute to the technical roadmap and improve automation, resilience, and scalability.
- Mentor junior developers and promote software engineering best practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science, engineering, mathematics, physics, or a related quantitative discipline.
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience building production systems in a collaborative environment.
- Strong Python proficiency and fluency in modern C++.
- Experience with relational databases or columnar data stores using SQL and hands-on Linux development experience.
- Experience designing and operating production services, including testing, deployment, and monitoring.
- Ability to profile, debug, and optimize code and system performance for low-latency or high-throughput workloads.
- Working knowledge of financial markets and instruments including equities, futures, or foreign exchange.
- Strong analytical problem-solving, model and calculation validation, communication, and collaboration skills.
- Commitment to the highest ethical standards.
Benefits
- Sports card
- Private life insurance
- Private medical and dental care with vision allowance
- Private pension scheme
- Volunteer opportunities
- Support for employee-led affinity groups
- Business travel accident insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Educational assistance reimbursement
- Warsaw office location
About Point72
Point72 is a global alternative investment firm that deploys fundamental and systematic strategies across equities and other asset classes for institutional and qualified investors. The firm earns management and performance fees and also invests partner capital. Founded in 2014 by Steven A. Cohen and headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, it operates a multi-manager platform with offices worldwide and a large in-house technology organization supporting research, trading, data, and risk.