Associate, Financial Platform Engineer; Java​/Wilmington, DE

Locations:
Wilmington, Delaware

Job description

Black Rock Self-Indexing – Software Engineer (Associate)

About Black Rock

Elevate your career by joining the world's largest asset manager! Would you thrive in an environment that fosters positive relationships and recognizes outstanding performance? We know how important it is to feel valued every single day and be recognized for your contribution.
At Black Rock, we strive to empower our employees and effectively motivate your involvement in our success. With over $14 trillion of assets, we have an outstanding responsibility: our technology and services empower millions of investors to save for retirement, pay for college, buy a home and improve their financial well-being.

Black Rock Index Services (BIS) is responsible for the design, development, and administration of Fixed Income Equity & Multi-Asset class indices used by both internal and external clients. Our success hinges on producing highly accurate, best-of-breed indices in a timely manner.

Black Rock Index Services (BIS) is looking for an experienced Software Engineer (Associate) to contribute to the development of our next generation Equity, Fixed Income & Multi-Asset Index Calculation, Simulation & Delivery platform.

• This role will be responsible for all aspects of software development, testing & support by harnessing modern development technologies
• You are passionate about multiple aspects of enterprise software development – Performance, Scale, Resilience, Usability and Maintainability.
• As a key member of our engineering team, you will be encouraged and empowered to bring your ideas forward to help shape our technology roadmap & solutions.
• Become a strong member of our globally distributed and diverse team.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams of Product Management, Equity/Fixed Income Research, Platform Engineering, Data Operations & Production and Program Management to deliver innovative Indices.
• You are a well-organized engineer with strong attention to detail and an uncompromising approach to quality.
• Convert high level Architecture to Component design & convert this design to high quality software.
• Respond to technical questions from clients and perform ad-hoc analyses when needed to support and substantiate the response.
• You have a zeal for automating the complete software lifecycle – development, testing, deployment & production operations.
• You are enthusiastic about refactoring existing code to align with newer technology stacks and architectural patterns.

• B.S./MS (or equivalent) in a STEM subject area with 4 to 8 years of experience in Enterprise Software Development.
• Strong experience with Java technology stack (Spring, JDBC, Hibernate, Apache Tomcat, JBoss, Maven, Jenkins, JUnit).
• Strong development skills in Core and Enterprise Java using multi-threading and networking frameworks.
• Python development experience with good knowledge of numerical / statistics / ML packages such as pandas, numpy, scipy and cvxpy is desirable.
• Good understanding of SQL & No
  
  SQL Database concepts, with experience on Oracle / Sybase / Snowflake / Cassandra is desirable.
• Experience with development of ETL solutions / Object Relational mapping (ORM) solutions is desirable.
• Experience with development of ReSTful Webservices using HTTP-JSON / gRPC is desirable.
• Experience with cloud native development (Kubernetes, Docker) and Cloud Platform like Microsoft Azure is desirable.
• Experience with Distributing Computing Technologies like Apache Ignite/ Hazelcast is desirable.
• Experience with Open source publish-subscribe frameworks like Apache Kafka is desirable.
• Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks like Angular & React is desirable.
• Solid understanding & knowledge of Unix/Linux and related infrastructure.
• Good understanding of fundamental Data Structures & Algorithms.
• Experience with Object Oriented Design Patterns.
• Superior problem solving and troubleshooting skills and perseverance to identify Root cause of any problem.
• Experience working in an agile software development environment and with related technologies (Git, JIRA, ADO, Azure Pipelines).
• Understanding of Equity / Fixed Income / Real Estate Investment & Trading ecosystem.
• Candidates with knowledge of Equity / Fixed Income / Real Estate indices will be given preference.
• Experience with Black Rock Aladdin platform & Dashboard technologies is a huge plus.