Description
About this role
About this role
Elevate your career by joining the world's largest asset manager! Thrive in an environment that fosters positive relationships and recognizes outstanding performance! We know you want to feel valued every single day and be recognized for your contribution. At BlackRock, we strive to empower our employees and effectively engage your involvement in our success.
BlackRocks Aladdin Wealth Technology organization (AWT) is at the center of cutting-edge technologies that serve financial advisors and investors. AWT consolidates BlackRocks varying products, including Aladdin Risk for Wealth, Advisor Center and SMA Business with marketing and sales teams with the goal of improving the user experience of its technology products and improving relationships with the financial advisors who use it. We operate as one cohesive unit spanning client, product, and engineering, and we pride ourselves on getting things done and delivering new business value quickly and frequently. We are passionate about finding new ways to solve real business problems in our industry using technology and data.
We are rapidly growing our engineering team and are looking for ambitious developers who can independently architect, develop, and deploy front-end React applications, as well as back-end Java Spring Boot applications.
About the Position
At BlackRock, we are looking for Software Engineers who like to innovate and solve complex problems. We recognize that strength comes from diversity, and will embrace your unique skills, curiosity, drive, and passion while giving you the opportunity to grow technically and as an individual.
With over USD $10 trillion of assets, we have an exceptional responsibility: our technology empowers millions of investors to save for retirement, pay for college, buy a home and improve their financial wellbeing.
Being a developer at BlackRock means you get the best of both worlds: working for one of the most advanced financial companies and also being part of a software development team responsible for next generation technology and solutions.
Job Purpose / Background:
We are an outstanding group of engineers that are passionate about all aspects of enterprise software development.
You are an ambitious software engineer that can independently develop and deploy high scale end-to-end applications and have the ability to contribute to a tight-knit team. You also have a good understanding of how the web works. Members of our team are encouraged to bring ideas to help shape our technical solutions forward and to communicate those ideas to senior leaders.
Beyond engineering, you will have a strong desire to learn the business context of your projects, so you can quickly contribute to solving problems and driving decisions to engage, learn, drive and deliver change on a global scale!
Job Responsibilities:
Build, deploy, and maintain fast and scalable web front-end and business processes that drive the investment management process for our clients
Partner closely with API teams, product management teams, and external client relationship management teams to enhance the product offering and drive-up user engagement and adoption
Beyond engineering, a successful candidate will always strive to learn the business context of their projects to quickly play a leading role in solving problems and driving decisions
Basic Qualifications:
BA/BS in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
3+ years of professional software development experience in an Agile SDLC.
Proficiency with a broad spectrum of object-oriented programming, algorithms, data structures and design patterns.
Strong communicator, both written and verbal
Ability to work in a global team-environment and able to work independently with minimal direction when appropriate
Experience in the financial industry or knowledge of financial products/markets is a plus
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience in React Development.
Experience with JavaScript (ES6+) and Typescript.
Experience with Frontend state management technologies like Recoil, Redux, Jotai, Zustand, etc.
Experience with React Testing Library is a plus.
Experience with standard slate of front-end web technologies, including CSS3, HTML5, Chrome Debugger, yarn or npm
Experience with a JVM based language like Java version 8+ or equivalent OOP is a plus
Understanding of typical Java-based frameworks such as Spring MVC, Spring Boot etc is a plus
Some Experience in developing in microservices architecture and/or writing Restful APIs is a plus
Experience with GIT for code management and CI/CD platform like Azure DevOps is a plus.
Our benefits
To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.
Our hybrid work model
BlackRocks hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees, while supporting flexibility for all. Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities. We remain focused on increasing the impactful moments that arise when we work together in person aligned with our commitment to performance and innovation. As a new joiner, you can count on this hybrid model to accelerate your learning and onboarding experience here at BlackRock.
About BlackRock
At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being. Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their childrens educations, buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.
This mission would not be possible without our smartest investment the one we make in our employees. Its why were dedicated to creating an environment where our colleagues feel welcomed, valued and supported with networks, benefits and development opportunities to help them thrive.
