Java Engineer, Associate

About this role

At Black Rock, 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 $12+ 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 Black Rock means you get the best of both worlds: working for one of the most advanced financial companies and being part of a software development team responsible for next generation technology and solutions.

What is Aladdin and Aladdin Engineering (AE)?

• You will be working on Black Rock's investment operating system Aladdin. Aladdin is used both internally 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 team sits inside Aladdin Engineering. 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. We perform risk calculations and process millions of transactions for thousands of users every day worldwide!

• The open position is in the Investment and Trading Engineering team within Aladdin Engineering. The team is on a transformational journey from a mature set of applications to an integrated persona-based platform with streamlined user workflows and a high degree of automation and scale. The team works closely with Black Rock portfolio managers, traders and investment compliance officers and delivers to external clients.
  
  They also partner closely with world class AI research and engineering teams, product managers, UX designers, quality assurance engineers, and client support teams to deliver high quality, scalable and resilient capabilities.

Being a member of investment and trading 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.

• Quick learner:
  Pick up new concepts and apply them quickly.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables using AGILE methodologies.

• Deliver high efficiency, high availability, concurrent and fault tolerant software systems.

• Contribute to development of Aladdin’s global, multi-asset trading platform.

• Design and develop innovative solutions to complex problems, identifying issues and roadblocks.

• Demonstrate vision when brainstorming solutions for team productivity, efficiency, guiding and motivating developers.

Qualifications

• Master’s Degree or PHD in Computer Science, Engineering or Mathematics.

• Up to 2 years of hands-on experience in Java or web developments (JavaScript).

• Good understanding of concurrent programming and design of high throughput, high availability, fault-tolerant distributed applications and databases.

• Strong interest in distributed systems, infrastructure services, cloud technology and AI/ML techniques and technology.

• Prior experience in building distributed applications using SQL and/or No
  
  SQL technologies such as MSSQL, Mongo
  
  DB, Snowflake, or Redis is a plus.

• Prior experience with message broker technology such as Kafka or gRPC is a plus.

• Prior experience in modern front-end frameworks such as React, Vue.js, or Angular is a plus. Angular preferred.

• Excellent analytical and software architecture design skills, with an emphasis on test-driven development.

• Effective communication and presentation skills, both written and verbal

Our benefits

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of employee benefits…