Software Engineering Manager, Macro Middle Office Technology

A Career with Point72’s Technology Team

As Point72 reimagines the future of investing, our Technology group 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.

The Macro Middle Office trade processing and position team is responsible for the development, maintenance, and automation of the systems that process trade executions into position keeping systems. The systems support a wide range of financial products and asset classes including equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, and credit. The team is global with personnel and service providers located throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.

What you’ll do

We are looking for an experienced person to lead a team of 4-6 professionals, developing technology for trade flow processing for the macro business. This is a hands-on role automating and simplifying business process, as well as architecting and developing new systems in collaboration with the broader Middle Office team and stakeholders. You will work with teams in New York and Warsaw on low latency position keeping systems and data models to serve the Global Macro business and more. As a lead, you will also manage priorities and guide the team through the development, maintenance, and modernization of the technology platform.

In this role, you will have organizational responsibility to create and guide development initiatives, technology / people / process strategy, and transformation programs. You will make critical contributions to enhancing the business/technology relationship among Macro Middle Office Technology, Macro Front Office Technology, and stakeholders. In addition to tactical development, you will be responsible for delivering and creating programs to modernize and scale the position keeping platform through technology upgrades, cloud technology adoption, and re-architecting business processes.

What’s required

• 6+ years of combined work experience in Java and C#.Net. Some familiarity of both is required
• 3+ years of financial services industry experience, trade processing preferred
• 2+ years of experience in mentoring, guiding, and managing a team of developers
• Experience working with a books and records system like Murex or Orchestrade is preferred
• Experience building integrations with vendor systems that are maintainable and supportable
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a proven track record of improving the stability and scalability of the platform, simplifying technology, and design thinking
• Knowledge of financial products including fixed income, FX, credit, equities, and derivatives and associated trade capture and lifecycle
• Experience managing projects based on cloud, microservice, messaging architectures, high volume streaming and/or transaction processing systems
• Expertise in the software development life cycle (Agile) and software development tools
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• 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. We want you to concentrate on success and leave the rest to us. When you work here, we provide:

• Sports card
• Private life insurance
• Private medical and dental care, with vision allowance
• Private pension scheme
• Volunteer opportunities
• Support for employee-led affinity groups representing women, people of color and the LGBT+ community
• Business travel accident insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Educational assistance reimbursement

About Point72

Point72 Asset Management is a global firm led by Steven Cohen that invests in multiple asset classes and strategies worldwide. Resting on more than a quarter-century of investing experience, we seek to be the industry’s premier asset manager through delivering superior risk-adjusted returns, adhering to the highest ethical standards, and offering the greatest opportunities to the industry’s brightest talent.

Our Warsaw office gives us access to world-class talent with a reputation for excellence and innovation. We’re looking to build an office of subject-matter experts whose fresh perspectives will help evolve our infrastructure and advance the capabilities of our teams. Learn more at www.Point72.com/Warsaw

 

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Last updated on Sep 15, 2023