- You will be working on BlackRocks investment operating system called Aladdin. Aladdin is used both internally within BlackRock and externally by many financial institutions. Aladdin combines sophisticated risk analytics with comprehensive portfolio management, trading, and operations tools on a single platform to power informed decision-making and create a connective tissue for thousands of users investing worldwide.
- Our development teamsresideinside the Aladdin Engineering group. We collaboratively build the next generation of technology that changes the way information, people, and technology intersect for global investment firms. We build and package tools that manage trillions in assets andsupportsmillions of financial instruments. We perform risk calculations and process millions of transactions for thousands of users every day worldwide!
Being a member of Aladdin Engineering, you will be:
- Tenacious: Work in a fast paced andhighly complexenvironment
- Creative thinker:Analyzemultiple solutions and deploy technologies in a flexible way.
- Great teammate: Think and work collaboratively and communicate effectively.
- Fast learner: Pick up new concepts and apply them quickly.
Responsibilities include:
- Collaborate with team members in a multi-office, multi-country environment and work on javafullstackdevelopment projects
- Deliver high efficiency, high availability, concurrent and fault tolerant software systems.
- Significantly contribute todevelopmentof Aladdin s global, multi-asset trading platform.
- Work with product management and business users to define the roadmap for the product.
- Design and develop innovative solutions to complex problems,identifyingissues and roadblocks.
- 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.
Qualifications:
- B.E./ B.TECH./ MCA or any other relevant engineering degree from a reputed university
- 8+ years of proven full stack development experience
Skills and Experience:
- A proven experience in coreJava full stack technologies(fullstackdeveloper experience is a must have)
- A proven foundation in core Java and related technologies, with OO skills and design patterns (proven experiencein developing both front end andback-endweb application/related applications)
- Track recordofbuilding high quality software with design-focused and test-driven approaches
- 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, etc.).
- Experience with relational database and/or NoSQL Database (e.g., Apache Cassandra)
- Great analytical, problem-solving and communication skills
- Some experience or a real interest in finance, investment processes, and an ability to translate business problems into technical solutions. Exposure to Fixed Income Portfolio Management technology is a bonus.
- Experience leading development teams, projects orbeing responsible forthe design and technical quality of a significant application, system, orcomponent. Ability to form positive relationships with partnering teams, sponsors, and user groups.
Nice to have and opportunities to learn:
- Exposure to building microservices and APIs ideally with REST, Kafka orgRPC.
- Experience of handling smallteam.
- Experience working in an agile development team or on open-source development projects.
- Experience with optimization,algorithmsor related quantitative processes.
- Exposure to high scale distributed technology like Kafka, Mongo, 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.
- A degree, certifications or opensourcetrack recordthat shows you have a mastery of software engineering principles.
