Senior Technical Lead Manager Equities Desktop Platform

Senior Technical Lead Manager – Equities Desktop Platform

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.  

What You’ll Do

You will oversee the strategic direction, technical leadership, and operational excellence of our desktop platform and critical equities applications. You will lead a team of engineers, collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, and drive initiatives to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of our systems. Specifically, you will:

• Provide strategic direction and technical guidance to the team, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and best practices.


• Analyze system performance and lead initiatives to improve the operations of equities applications.


• Oversee the implementation of monitoring and alerting solutions to proactively identify and resolve issues.


• Drive the development of software services, libraries, and tools to automate processes, reduce toil, and enhance system reliability.


• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for systems architecture and operational procedures.


• Lead root cause analysis of incidents and implement solutions to prevent recurrence, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.


• Champion innovative solutions to improve system performance, reliability, and scalability.


• Mentor and develop team members, fostering a collaborative and high-performing engineering culture.

What’s required

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.


• Proven track record in a senior technical leadership role, such as site reliability engineer, technical lead, or engineering manager.


• Strong proficiency in Node.js and Angular, with a deep understanding of their ecosystems.


• Experience with cloud platforms such as OpenShift.


• Familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes.


• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar.


• Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Datadog.


• Exceptional ability to troubleshoot complex systems and drive innovative solutions.

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 LGBTQ+ community


• Tuition assistance


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

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 $250,000-$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.