About the position
At BlackRock, we are looking for Software Engineers who like to innovate and solve sophisticated problems. We recognize that strength comes from diversity, and will embrace your outstanding skills, curiosity, and passion while giving you the opportunity to grow technically and as an individual. We invest and protect over $11 trillion (USD) of assets and have an extraordinary responsibility to our clients all over the world. Our technology empowers millions of investors to save for retirement, pay for college, buy a home, and improve their financial well-being. Being a technologist at BlackRock means you get the best of both worlds: working for one of the most sophisticated financial companies and being part of a software development team responsible for next generation technology and solutions.
Responsibilities
- Take ownership of individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables using AGILE methodologies
- Deliver high efficiency, high availability, concurrent and fault tolerant software systems
- Understand and refine business and functional requirements
- Significantly contribute to development of Aladdin Data's Process Engineering platform
- Work with product management and business users to define the roadmap for the product
- Design and develop innovative solutions to complex problems, identifying issues and roadblocks
- Maintain and evolve AI/ML models, maximising and contributing powerful technologies/ infrastructure
- Apply validated quality software engineering practices through all phases of development
- Ensure resilience and stability through quality code reviews, unit, regression and user acceptance testing, dev ops and level two production support
- Be a leader with vision and a partner in brainstorming solutions for team productivity, efficiency, guiding and motivating others
- Drive a strong culture by bringing principles of inclusion and diversity to the team and setting the tone through specific recruiting, management actions and employee engagement
- Providing L2 or L3 support for technical and/or operational issues
Requirements
- B.S. / M.S. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject area
- 3+ years of relevant experience
- A proven foundation in core Java and related technologies, with OO skills and design patterns
- Design and implement microservices-based architectures, ensuring modularity, scalability, and maintainability of the system
- Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Good hands-on object-oriented programming knowledge in Java, Spring, TypeScript, JavaScript, Microservices, Angular (2.0+)
- Strong knowledge of Open-Source technology stack (Spring, Hibernate, Maven, JUnit)
- Advanced knowledge and experience developing and working with relational databases (e.g., MySQL, Sybase) and NoSQL distributed storage technologies (e.g., Cassandra)
- Great analytical, problem-solving and communication skills
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work in a team-oriented environment
Nice-to-haves
- Python or Golang knowledge
- Exposure to building microservices and APIs ideally with REST, Kafka or gRPC
- Experience working in an agile development team or on open-source development projects
- Experience with optimization, algorithms or related quantitative processes
- Exposure to high scale distributed technology like Kafka, go, Ignite, Redis
- Experience with Cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud
- Experience with DevOps and tools like Azure DevOps
- Experience with AI-related projects/products or experience working in an AI research environment
Benefits
- Strong retirement plan
- Tuition reimbursement
- Comprehensive healthcare
- Support for working parents
- Flexible Time Off (FTO)
