UI Engineer

A Career with Point72’s Technology Team

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

• Develop, implement, and maintain front‑end user interfaces (UI) using modern web technologies (e.g., HTML, CSS, Angular, React, Typescript).
• Translate design wireframes, user flows, and mockups into functional, responsive, and polished UI components.
• Collaborate closely with user experience (UX) designers, product managers, and backend engineers to deliver seamless end‑to‑end user experiences.
• Optimize applications for performance, accessibility, cross‑browser compatibility, and mobile responsiveness.
• Troubleshoot UI issues, perform code reviews, and ensure adherence to coding standards and best practices.
• Continuously improve UI architecture, contribute to component libraries and design systems, and stay current with emerging front‑end trends and tools.
• Coordinate and manage regular and emergency releases in collaboration with application release teams
• Lead future-facing UI and front-end initiatives, including research and development (R&D) efforts on new platforms, frameworks, tools, and techniques.
• Design and implement proof-of-concepts (POCs) aligned with business objectives and strategic priorities.
• Ensure application and infrastructure code safety by proactively preventing, identifying, and remediating risks introduced through development or infrastructure changes.

What’s required

• Excellent technical knowledge of Angular, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS with a passion for building mission-critical, elegantly engineered, and scalable code
• Fluency with Git source code management
• Self-motivated attitude with the ability to take ownership of assigned tasks , delivering them within reasonable time
• Professional, precise communication skills and comfort operating in a fast paced, Agile environment within the financial services industry
• Ability to create self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components while actively practice clean coding practices (SOLID, continuous refactoring, testing)
• Experience writing extensive unit tests using automated TDD tasks
• Skilled in configurating, building, and testing scripts for Continuous Integration environments
• 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
• Mental and physical wellness programs
• Volunteer opportunities
• Non-profit matching gift program
• Support for employee-led affinity groups representing women, minorities and the LGBT+ community
• Tuition assistance
• A 401(k) savings program with an employer match and more

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

The annual base salary range for this role is $175,000-$250,000 (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.