BlackRock
Job Description
Are you interested in building innovative technology that crafts the financial markets? Do you like working at the speed of a startup, and solving some of the world’s most exciting challenges? Do you want to work with, and learn from, hands-on leaders in technology and finance?
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 $10 trillion 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.
This position is within the RQA Lab of the Aladdin Risk Office (ARO) engineering team, responsible for providing fast, accurate, risk analysis and monitoring capabilities across the firm’s $10tn+ Assets under Management. With such a large remit, our tools deal with a high volume of data and analytics and provide exception-based workflows for risk managers to perform analysis at scale.
As part of the ARO engineering team, you will collaborate with the Risk & Quantitative Analysis (RQA) group, which provides independent oversight of BlackRock’s fiduciary and enterprise risks globally. It is an opportunity to shape an exciting new operating model and drive adoption and application of new technology, tools, and techniques to tackle real business problems and learn about the financial industry, specifically the sophisticated world of risk management.
You are:
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Passionate about technology, with personal ownership for the work you do.
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Curious and eager to learn new things, and willing to challenge the status quo.
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Willing to embrace work outside of your comfort zone, and open to guidance from others.
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Data and quality focused, with an eye for the details that make great solutions.
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You sometimes make mistakes, but always willing to learn from them.
We are:
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Passionate about building quality software and scalable technology to meet the needs of tomorrow.
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Building solutions for both BlackRock and over 100+ financial organizations who use our platform.
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We have strong Java expertise and work with a range of technologies such as Cassandra, Kafka, Snowflake, Angular and many others.
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Writing testable software every day, with a focus on agile innovation.
Responsibilities include:
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Work with team members, Product managers and Risk professionals across the globe to understand and refine business and functional requirements and build scalable technical solutions.
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Apply quality software engineering practices through all phases of the development lifecycle.
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Ensure resilience and stability through quality code reviews, unit, regression, and UAT
Qualifications:
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B.E. or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
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1 – 3 years of experience as a Full Stack Developer.
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Good hands-on object-oriented programming experience in Java, Spring, Microservices/API development, TypeScript, Angular.
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Experience developing and working with relational databases (SQL, Data modelling).
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Experience following Agile Development practices and standard methodologies including test driven development (TDD), unit testing discipline and Continuous Integration/Deployment (CI/CD).