2 months ago
Base Salary
$200k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and evolve a Python-based analytics platform for the macro business.
- Shape Python APIs and user-facing interfaces for pricing, calibration, curve construction, scenario, valuation, and risk analytics.
- Design and deliver service interfaces and APIs connecting users, applications, and downstream systems to production analytics.
- Build and maintain analytics workflows and reliable Excel-based interfaces for traders, quantitative researchers, and risk users.
- Partner with quantitative researchers, traders, risk users, technology partners, C++ analytics engineers, and quantitative developers.
- Provide technical expertise on API design, service architecture, interface design, performance, reliability, and maintainability.
- Contribute to releases, production support, performance improvements, and investigation of analytics, integration, pricing, and risk discrepancies.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to developers when appropriate.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience developing and supporting production Python platforms, APIs, services, or analytics applications in macro, trading, risk, pricing, or related financial markets environments.
- Experience with service-oriented platforms, including gRPC, Protocol Buffers, service contracts, versioning, backward compatibility, and production service support.
- Strong Excel skills supporting business-critical spreadsheet workflows for trading, risk, analytics, pricing, or related financial markets use cases.
- Experience integrating Python applications with lower-level analytics libraries, services, data platforms, or other production systems.
- Understanding of pricing, valuation, calibration, curve construction, scenarios, sensitivities, and risk analytics concepts.
- Experience improving performance and reliability in data-intensive or analytics-driven Python systems, including profiling, caching, asynchronous execution, scalable computation, and production troubleshooting.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with quantitative researchers, traders, risk users, and technology partners.
- Commitment to the highest ethical standards.
Benefits
- Fully paid health care benefits.
- Generous parental and family leave policies.
- Volunteer opportunities and support for employee-led affinity groups.
- Mental and physical wellness programs.
- Tuition assistance.
- 401(k) savings program with employer match.
- Annual base salary range of $200,000-$300,000 USD, excluding discretionary bonus compensation.
- Comprehensive benefits package; actual compensation may vary by geographic location, work experience, education, and skill level.
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.