Senior Python Quant Analytics Platform Engineer

Point72 Asset Management, L.P; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully-paid health care benefits

Generous parental leave

Wellness programs

Volunteer opportunities

Non-profit matching gifts

Affinity groups support

Tuition assistance

401(k) with employer match

Job summary

Point72 Asset Management, L.P. seeks a senior Python-focused technologist to design and evolve a production analytics platform used across its macro business.

You will shape APIs and interfaces to access pricing, calibration, curve construction, and risk analytics. You will collaborate with researchers, traders, risk teams, and C++ engineers, contribute to releases and production support, and drive performance improvements across analytics workflows.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience developing and supporting production Python platforms, APIs, services, or analytics applications in macro, trading, risk, pricing, or related financial markets environments.
• Experience designing and delivering stable Python APIs and user-facing interfaces consumed by quantitative researchers, traders, risk users, engineering teams, or other technical users, with usability, versioning, deprecation, backward compatibility, documentation, and long-term maintainability.
• Experience building or integrating with service-oriented platforms, including practical exposure to gRPC, Protocol Buffers, service contracts, versioning, backward compatibility, and production service support.

Responsibilities

• Help design, develop, and evolve a Python-based analytics platform used across our macro business.
• Shape Python APIs and user-facing interfaces for pricing, calibration, curve construction, scenario, valuation, and risk analytics.
• Design and deliver robust service interfaces and APIs that connect users, applications, and downstream systems to production analytics capabilities.
• Build and maintain analytics workflows so traders, researchers, and risk users access analytics through spreadsheets.
• Collaborate with researchers, traders, risk users, and tech partners to translate requirements into platform capabilities.

Skills

Python

API design

Excel

Communication

Tools

gRPC

Protocol Buffers

Job description

Point72 Asset Management, L.P. seeks a senior Python-focused technologist to design and evolve a production analytics platform used across its macro business.

You will shape APIs and interfaces to access pricing, calibration, curve construction, and risk analytics. You will collaborate with researchers, traders, risk teams, and C++ engineers, contribute to releases and production support, and drive performance improvements across analytics workflows.