BlackRock Global Markets (BGM) - Full-Stack Developer, Associate

About this role

At BlackRock, 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 outstanding skills, curiosity, drive, and passion while giving you the opportunity to grow technically and as an individual.

With over USD $9 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 well-being.

Being a developer at BlackRock 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.

We are seeking an ambitious individual to join the Research and Analytics team within the BlackRock Global Markets team.

We are a community of finance professionals, researchers, quants, computer scientists, user experience designers, and data analytics engineers. Our unique team structure enables us to go from idea to product completely within one team. The team is highly sought after to solve data and analytically intensive challenges and present them in intuitive and visually compelling ways. Given the complex nature of our business, we value open communication and eagerness to learn.

What makes us special as a company

• Our mission statement: help more and more people experience financial well-being, allowing them to have better health, education, and retirement.
• As the biggest asset manager, we are among the top companies globally with a highly secure and established financial pedigree.
• Our international team is growing dynamically so there are always new opportunities.
• BlackRock is socially responsible! BlackRock is leading the push for a more climate-conscious, sustainable & ethical approach to corporate governance, products & investing.
• There are a lot of perks, e.g. unlimited flexible time off, free access to learning sites, and a stipend to undertake training.
• Compared to many big companies, employees enjoy more freedom to give input, make decisions, and express their opinions, regardless of their level.

What makes us special as a team

We are free to choose our tools and technologies. We use open-source, industry-standard, up-to-date technologies. We sit in the business and are valued partners. We own the value chain, delivering projects end-to-end, including the creative process, requirements, planning, architecting, and coding. We can deliver the complete solution because we have the frontend, backend, data engineers, quants, and UX/UI designers.

We are passionate about our profession. We keep learning and sharing our knowledge internally and externally.

You should be

• Curious about your profession, driven to learn and keep up to date.
• A self-starter that takes ownership of the product, not just doing what you are told.
• Consistently attentive to quality, may it be code, design, or communication.
• Interested in Finance with a desire to develop data-intensive and analytics-focused applications for a complex business domain.
• A strong written & verbal communicator with an ability to think about the big picture when working with partners, technical leadership, and designers to shape product direction.

Key Responsibilities for a Full-Stack Engineer:

• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other software engineers to build our next-generation product suite spanning use cases from real-time monitoring of market conditions to serving clients detailed analytics of their portfolios.
• Ensure software stability via documentation, code reviews, and comprehensive testing.
• Actively contribute to the team’s Agile Iteration/Scrum Sprint process.
• Coordinate with other team members in a multi-office, multi-country environment – San Francisco, London, New York, and Budapest.

Essential Qualifications:

• Strong programming skills with at least 2 years experience in both backend and frontend technologies like Java, Spring, React, Angular, or Vue.
• Proficiency in databases and UNIX command-line tools.
• Familiar with continuous integration and continuous delivery automation for containerized services
• Experience with Agile/Scrum, DevOps, Git, code reviews, CI/CD, etc.

Advantageous Experience

• Expertise in Python, Golang.
• Comfort with WebSockets, micro-frontends, real-time data streaming, reactive programming, web workers.
• Production experience operating a highly available and scalable cloud platform
• Production experience with Redis, Spring boot, Spring batch, REST Web service; Kafka, NoSQL