Software Engineer, Front End

Software Engineer, Front End

A Career with Point72’s Technology Team

As Point72 reimagines the future of investing, our Technology team is constantly improving our company’s IT infrastructure, positioning us at the forefront of a rapidly evolving technology landscape. We’re a team of experts experimenting, discovering new ways to harness the power of open-source solutions, and embracing enterprise agile methodology. We encourage professional development to ensure you bring innovative ideas to our products while satisfying your own intellectual curiosity.

What you’ll do

• 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
• Build reusable component libraries and contribute to a shared design system (accessibility, theming, responsiveness)
• Optimize 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 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 building modern web applications; 3+ years 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 stakeholder needs into technical specs, reduce ambiguity, and drive alignment across engineering, product, and UX
• 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

Point72 is a leading global alternative investment firm led by Steven A. Cohen. Building on more than 30 years of investing experience, Point72 seeks to deliver superior returns for its investors through fundamental and systematic investing strategies across asset classes and geographies. We aim to attract and retain the industry’s brightest talent by cultivating an investor-led culture and committing to our people’s long-term growth. For more information, visit www.point72.com.

The annual base salary range for this role is $175,000-$245,000 (USD) , which does not include discretionary bonus compensation or our comprehensive benefits package. Actual compensation offered to the successful candidate may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level, among other things.