
Software Engineer, Front End
at Point72
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- Hong Kong
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- Hong Kong
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The Software Engineer, Front End will design and maintain React and TypeScript applications focused on real-time trading and market data UIs. The role involves collaborating with traders and product partners to deliver high-performance, event-driven user interfaces and mentoring teammates within an agile technology environment.
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 + 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
- Optimize virtualization, memorization, concurrency, network efficiency, and rendering strategies
- Integrate with market data, OMS/EMS, and internal APIs, and shape contracts with backend engineers
- Write reliable tests (unit, integration, E2E) and deliver features via CI/CD pipelines, leveraging feature flags and robust monitoring
- Collaborate with traders and product partners to gather requirements, run demos, and iterate quick solutions
- Maintain engineering best practices in code reviews, documentation, security, and accessibility
- Modernize and interoperate with Angular-based applications
- Mentor teammates, share knowledge, and contribute to technical roadmaps
WHAT’S REQUIRED
- 5+ years building modern web applications with 3+ years with React and TypeScript in production
- Track record of delivering complex UIs for trading, market data, or other real-time domains such as finance, ad-tech, gaming, or IoT
- Deep fluency in TypeScript, React hooks, state management (Redux Toolkit, Zustand, MobX, or RxJS), and component architecture
- Ability to build high-performance data grids, charts, and dashboards, and comfortable with virtualization and diffing strategies
- Experience with streaming patterns such as WebSockets and Server-Sent Events, and familiarity with reactive programming concepts and tools such as Observables and RxJS
- Proficient with testing tools and modern build tooling such as Vite/Webpack, ESLint, and/or Prettier
- Solid understanding of the browser rendering pipeline, async patterns, Web Workers, local storage, security best practices
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate trader needs into specs, reduce ambiguity, and drive alignment across engineering, product, and UX
- Strong problem-solving skills, ownership mindset, and calm execution under time-sensitive conditions
- 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
- 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
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.
