1 month ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and launch robust end-to-end business solutions including data pipelines, products, and tools.
- Develop big data processing pipelines for ingestion, transformation, trend creation, and AI-ready data assets.
- Create reusable software components, libraries, and APIs for experimentation and production deployment.
- Implement data quality, lineage, and governance controls to keep datasets reliable, auditable, and compliant.
- Build scalable cloud-based infrastructure using distributed systems techniques.
- Optimize software performance, cost, and reliability through benchmarking and iterative improvement.
- Collaborate with investment professionals, researchers, data scientists, and Compliance.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- 2+ years of strong Python development experience.
- Experience with system design and leading multi-person development efforts.
- Experience with distributed data processing frameworks such as Spark.
- Experience building scalable APIs and backend-focused software applications.
- Experience with cloud platforms and services for data storage and compute, such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Azure.
- Experience with orchestration technologies such as Airflow.
- Knowledge of or experience with LangGraph, LangChain, embedding models, vector databases, or graph databases is a plus.
- Interest in staying current with AI advancements and applying emerging techniques to practical applications.
- Commitment to the highest ethical standards.
Benefits
- Private medical and dental insurance.
- Generous parental and family leave policies.
- Volunteer opportunities and support for employee-led affinity groups.
- Mental and physical wellness programmes.
- Tuition assistance.
- Non-contributory pension.
- London-based role; no specific remote or hybrid arrangement is stated.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
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.