Software Engineer, Macro Middle Office Technology
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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.
What you’ll do
• Develop and support software that keeps trade processing, position keeping, and downstream workflows accurate and resilient
• Diagnose complex trade, profit and loss, pricing, security reference data, and liquidation issues across production systems
• Improve straight-through trade processing by reducing manual intervention, strengthening controls, and automating recurring operational tasks
• Partner with trading, operations, and technology teams to understand workflow gaps and deliver practical engineering solutions
• Monitor application health, data quality, and processing status to identify issues before they affect business users
• Build tools and enhancements that simplify investigations, accelerate issue resolution, and improve transparency across post-trade processes
• Contribute to incident analysis by identifying root causes, documenting findings, and implementing durable fixes
• Modernize existing applications and data flows to improve scalability, maintainability, and reliability for the Macro business
• Collaborate with global engineering teams to deliver changes safely across development, testing, and production environments
What’s required
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, finance, or a related technical field
• 5+ years of software engineering experience supporting trading, post-trade, middle office, or financial data processing applications
• Strong programming skills in an object-oriented language and experience building maintainable production applications
• Proficient SQL skills with experience analyzing relational data, investigating data quality issues, and supporting database-driven applications
• Hands-on experience with straight-through trade processing, security reference data, price data, and position or trade lifecycle workflows
• Ability to debug trade capture, profit and loss, liquidation, pricing, and reference data issues in time-sensitive production environments
• Understanding of macro financial products, trade flows, positions, and downstream reporting processes
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to explain technical issues clearly to business and technology teams
• Ability to work full time from Bengaluru, India, and collaborate effectively with global teams across time zones
• 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:
Health care benefits
Maternity, Adoption & related leave policies
Generous paternity and family care leave policies
Employee Assistance Program & Mental wellness programs
Transportation support
Tuition assistance
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/about .
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