Backend Engineer

A Career with Point72’s Technology Group

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

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-performance C#/.NET Core APIs and backend services.
• Build and optimize data models, queries, and database performance.
• Ensure service reliability and availability by managing SLAs, monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
• Collaborate closely with UI developers, Quality Assurance and cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end features.
• Write clean, maintainable code with strong unit test coverage.
• Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and technical decision-making.
• Manage UAT environments, deployments, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Monitor application health, performance, and logs using observability tools.
• Contribute to DevOps automation, infrastructure improvements, and operational best practices.
• Provide support for production issues, including timely critical bug fixes and incident resolution.

What’s required

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in backend or server-side development.
• Strong proficiency in C#/.NET Core and RESTful API design.
• Proven experience ensuring service reliability and availability through SLA management, monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
• Hands-on experience with MongoDB and SQL Server, including performance tuning.
• Strong problem-solving, debugging, and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate across teams.
• Ability to work independently and thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment.
• 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:

• 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. We’re inventing the future of finance by revolutionizing how we develop our people and how we use data to shape our thinking. For more information, visit www.Point72.com/working-here