C# Macro Quant Analytics Backend Engineer

Point72 Asset Management, L.P; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 160,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Point72 Asset Management in London is seeking a senior backend engineer to design, build, and extend core C# analytics services and APIs. You will work on high-performance distributed systems supporting pricing, risk, and market data workflows.

Collaborating with quants and portfolio managers, you will contribute to data pipelines, cloud deployments, and robust production practices while advancing analytics platforms and real-time insights across the business.

Qualifications

• 3–10 years of backend C# experience with distributed systems and APIs.
• Experience deploying backend services in cloud or hybrid environments.
• Strong data modeling and time-series/event-driven architectures.
• Experience with streaming systems like Kafka and building scalable data pipelines.
• Familiar with containers, Kubernetes, and modern storage tech.
• SDLC practices: testing, monitoring, production support in production systems.
• Experience with Python and exposure to C++ in analytics contexts.
• Awareness of financial markets, rates, FX, derivatives and pricing analytics.
• Strong communication and collaboration with investment professionals.
• Commitment to ethical standards.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and extend core C# analytics services, APIs, and libraries.
• Develop and operate high-performance distributed systems.
• Build real-time and historical analytics services for pricing, risk, and data workflows.
• Design and maintain time-aware data models and services.
• Develop and integrate derived data pipelines and datasets used in research and production analytics.
• Contribute to API design, data modeling, and system architecture for shared analytics platforms.
• Integrate analytics services with batch and streaming data pipelines across research and trading workflows.
• Partner with quants and portfolio managers to translate investment requirements into platform capabilities.
• Contribute to system reliability through testing, monitoring, and operational best practices.
• Participate in code reviews and technical discussions to improve design and maintainability.

Skills

C# backend

Distributed systems

APIs REST/gRPC

Cloud/hybrid environments

Kafka

Kubernetes

Python

C++ exposure

Tools

Kubernetes

Kafka

Python

C++

Job description

Point72 Asset Management in London is seeking a senior backend engineer to design, build, and extend core C# analytics services and APIs. You will work on high-performance distributed systems supporting pricing, risk, and market data workflows.

Collaborating with quants and portfolio managers, you will contribute to data pipelines, cloud deployments, and robust production practices while advancing analytics platforms and real-time insights across the business.