Senior Full Stack Engineer - Aladdin Trader, VP

BlackRock • Los Angeles, CA

13d • Hybrid

About The Position

About BlackRock: 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 $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. What are Aladdin and Aladdin Engineering? You will be working on BlackRock's investment tooling, operations, and application system called Aladdin. 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 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 in assets and supports millions of financial instruments.

Requirements

• B.S. or any other relevant engineering degree.
• 7+ years of experience working as a front-end engineer on production code, creating and deploying web apps in React (ideally external, customer-facing applications) and Typescript, CSS / SCSS, HTML
• Experience using state management tools like Redux, RxJs, Zustand, and/or Jotai to orchestrate complex state workflows and asynchronous APIs
• Experience working with backend languages like Java, Spring and the open-source technology stack (Spring, Hibernate, Maven, JUnit, etc.).
• Comfortable using all standard React hooks and creating custom hooks for different usecases
• Experience writing integration and unit tests with tools like Cypress, Jest, Cucumber
• Experience with API design and/or development, ideally with REST or through GraphQL
• A proven foundation in core front-end languages (React/Typescript preferred) but with a solid background in object-oriented programming, software engineering design patterns, and test-driven development
• Experience with Git and code collaboration tools
• Great analytical, problem-solving and communication skills to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience providing production support and using logging/monitoring tools like Visualization and analytics platforms for metrics and logs, Splunk
• Some experience or a real interest in finance, investment processes, and/or an ability to translate business problems into technical solutions.

Nice To Haves

• Exposure to or interest in streaming technologies like Web Sockets, AMPs, etc.
• Experience working in an Agile development team or on open-source development projects.
• Familiarity with dev ops tools like AzureDevOps a plus.
• Experience building out reusable React components or styling libraries
• Familiarity with UX design tools like Figma

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product management, quality assurance, and business users to design new features for existing and new React web-based investment/trading applications; develop high-quality, efficient, and fault-tolerant code; and validate releases via code reviews, detailed testing, dev ops, and level two production support
• Work with other frontend engineers to collaborate on common React components and utilities, build new features across multiple different apps, design and integrate APIs for multiple use-cases, contribute to a shared integration and testing suite, and design a thoughtful and efficient state management flow across the platform
• Work with backend engineers to design data contracts and APIs, integrate with existing and new data schemas, collaborate on testing and production support, and build out new features together
• Work closely with product team to learn about trading/investment workflows, estimate scope of work, perform demos, communicate technical blockers and challenges to non-technical audiences, and translate high-level vision into functional and non-functional requirements
• Work closely with quality assurance team to design overall testing strategy, perform joint testing when required, contribute to automated testing suite, and validate releases before deployment
• Work closely with users, other engineers, and SREs to provide level two production support, utilizing monitoring and logging tools to identify issues and quickly provide fixes
• Must be comfortable collaborating with team members in a multi-office, multi-country environment, while also being in office 4 days a week

Benefits

• employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, and benefits including healthcare, leave benefits, and retirement benefits
• strong retirement plan
• tuition reimbursement
• comprehensive healthcare
• support for working parents
• Flexible Time Off (FTO)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees