Software Engineer, Fund Accounting 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 Fund Accounting team is part of the Back Office Technology team and responsible for maintaining the firm’s books and records accounting systems based on the Advent Geneva platform. The platform supports a wide range of financial products including equities, fixed income, derivatives, and credit. Fund accounting is the primary platform developing business capabilities including prime broker reconciliations, Point72 Fund books and records, financial reporting, regulatory reporting, and firmwide books and records data warehouse.

What you’ll do

You will develop high-capacity integrations and reporting capabilities with Advent Geneva, implementing new financial products, managing prime broker data, and developing the accounting data warehouse of the future to support Treasury, Regulatory Reporting, Tax, and Investor stakeholders. Specifically, you will:

• Create new software applications and deliver software enhancements and projects supporting fund accounting and trade processing technology
• Work closely with business stakeholders to develop software solutions using test-driven and agile software development methodologies
• Design cloud-based computing solutions to create scalable cloud native applications
• Be responsible for system upgrades and features supporting resiliency and capacity improvements, automation and controls, and integration with internal and external vendors and services
• Work with DevOps teams to manage and resolve operational issues and leverage CI/CD platforms
• Continuously improve platforms using the latest technologies and software development ideas
• Develop close working relationships and collaborate with other technology teams to deliver cross-departmental initiatives

What’s required

• 8+ years of professional software development experience with a focus on .Net based technologies
• Strong SQL development and experience developing large-scale data warehouses
• Experience building micro services, Kubernetes based platforms, and AWS
• Experience working with Advent Geneva and industry-known prime broker reconciliation software
• Finance industry experience and knowledge of accounting principles
• Excellent verbal communication skills
• Strong problem solving and analytical 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. When you work here, we provide:

• Fully-paid 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
• A 401(k) savings program with an employer match and more

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 https://point72.com/.

The annual base salary range for this role is $225,000-$300,000 (USD) , which does not include discretionary bonus compensation or our comprehensive benefits package. Actual compensation offered to the successful candidate may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level, among other things.