Java Backend Developer, Aladdin Engineering - Vice President

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.

We invest and protect over $10 trillion (USD) of assets and have an extraordinary responsibility to our clients worldwide. 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.

What are Aladdin and Aladdin Engineering?

• You will be working on BlackRock's 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 connective tissue for thousands of users investing worldwide.
• Our development teams reside inside 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 of assets and support millions 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 and highly complex environment
• Creative thinker: Analyze multiple 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

• Design, code, test, and maintain reliable and robust software applications and backend services, adhering to high-quality standards and industry best practices.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for the team, offering technical solutions to business requirements using top-notch technology and design principles.
• Collaborate closely in a global team environment spanning several time zones.
• Design and develop innovative solutions to complex problems, identifying issues and roadblocks.
• Balance strong engineering results with excellent organizational, leadership, decision-making, and communication skills.
• Actively participate in cross-functional feature requirements gathering, refinement, design, and implementation.
• Be a leader with vision and a partner in brainstorming solutions for team productivity, efficiency, guiding and motivating others.
• Ability to lead individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables using AGILE methodologies.
• Ensure resilience and stability through quality code reviews, unit, regression and user acceptance testing, dev ops and level three production support.
• Manage software releases and support feature launches by performing post-release activities.
• 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 experience.

Skills and Experience:

• A proven foundation in core Java and related technologies, with OO skills and design patterns
• Track record building 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+), React.
• 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/or an ability to translate business problems into technical solutions.
• Candidate should have experience leading development teams, projects or being responsible for the design and technical quality of a significant application, system, or component. 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 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, 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 opensource track record that shows you have a mastery of software engineering principles.