Software Engineer, Front End

About Point72

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.

Job Summary

As a Software Engineer, Front End, you will design, build, and maintain React and TypeScript applications for order entry, blotters, dashboards, and risk/position views.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.
• Integrate front-end applications with market data feeds, order and execution management systems (OMS/EMS), and internal APIs.
• Develop and maintain reliable automated tests and manage deployments using CI/CD pipelines, feature flags, and comprehensive monitoring tools.
• Work directly with traders and product stakeholders to gather business requirements, present demos, receive feedback, and rapidly iterate on features.
• 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.

Requirements

• 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.