About Point72
Point72 is a global asset management firm led by Steven Cohen that uses Discretionary Long / Short, Macro, and Systematic strategies to invest in eight offices across the globe.
We look for people who want to build a career with us people who want to innovate, experiment, and be the best at what they do while adhering to the highest ethical standards.
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
Delivering an ongoing feature-set within a complete web application
Writing tested, idiomatic, and documented Angular, JavaScript, HTML and CSS
Coordinating with the user interface design team to build an effective and achievable result
Cooperating with the back-end developer in the process of building the RESTful API
Communicating with external web services
What’s required
Proficiency in Angular
Proficiency with modern JavaScript (ES6+), CSS (Flexbox / CSS Grid a plus), and HTML5
Deep knowledge of JavaScript / ES6 practices and commonly used modules based on extensive work experience
Professional, precise communication skills
Thorough understanding of asynchronous mechanisms used in the modern web development (Promises, Observables, etc)
Creating self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components
Extensive knowledge of CSS and JS methods for providing performant visual effects
Knowledge of 3rd party grid and charting tools (e.g. ag-grid, Highcharts) a plus
Thorough understanding of the responsibilities of the platform, database, API, caching layer, proxies, and other web services used in the system
Validating user actions on the client side and providing responsive feedback
Experience with coordinating with server infrastructure for delivering front-end app and assets
Architecting and automating the build process for production, using task runners (e.g. webpack, browserify, gulp)
Writing extensive unit tests using automated TDD tasks
Creating e2e test suites for all components, and running them with Protractor (or a well reasoned alternative)
Creating configuration, build, and test scripts for Continuous Integration environments
Commitment to the highest ethical standard
We take care of our people
We invest in our people, their careers, their health, and their well-being. We want you to concentrate on success and leave the rest to us.
When you work here, we provide :
Sports card
Private life insurance
Private medical and dental care, with vision allowance
Private pension scheme
Business travel accident insurance
Employee assistance program
Educational assistance reimbursement
Point72 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Point72 is committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants for employment.
Point72 complies with applicable, local, state and federal laws on the subject of equal employment opportunity.