Software Engineer, AVP – Marketing Technology

Blackstone is the world’s largest alternative asset manager. We seek to create positive economic impact and long-term value for our investors, the companies we invest in, and the communities in which we work. We do this by using extraordinary people and flexible capital to help companies solve problems. Our $1.1 trillion in assets under management include investment vehicles focused on private equity, real estate, public debt and equity, infrastructure, life sciences, growth equity, opportunistic, non-investment grade credit, real assets and secondary funds, all on a global basis. Further information is available at www.blackstone.com. Follow @blackstone on LinkedIn, X, and Instagram.

Business Description

Blackstone Technology & Innovations (BXTI) is the technology team at the core of each of Blackstone’s businesses and new growth initiatives. Serving both internal and external clients, we work to build the next generation of systems that manage risk, create efficiency and improve transparency within the firm and across our broad community of investors and portfolio companies.  

BXTI is nimble and entrepreneurial – our open, iterative design processes and rapid pace of development mean that everyone on the team has the opportunity to make an impact from day one. We are problem solvers who can take projects from idea to implementation. We believe in active mentoring and developing excellence. We collaborate to find the best answers for our customers and for Blackstone. We are critical to the firm maintaining its competitive edge. 

Role:        

As a Software Engineer for Corporate Affairs and Marketing Technology, you will develop and manage innovative technologies for our Corporate Affairs digital and design teams. You will lead, mentor, and grow a team of technologists to design, build, test, deploy, and support functionality across a variety of stacks and platforms. Through partnering with business stakeholders, you'll drive business value while also producing elegant engineering solutions. Applications are built using a highly scalable serverless and/or microservice architecture that is deployed either to our WordPress PaaS provider or via Terraform into AWS. Key technologies in this framework include WordPress, React, Typescript, Nodejs, Python, C#, SQL, Docker, Jenkins, Terraform, and AWS. 

You will be expected to take ownership of projects and find gaps in design with Blackstone business analysts. You will tackle a variety of problems from automating business processes, scaling out infrastructure to promoting reusable components across the organization.

Responsibilities:

• Use cloud native technologies and services to build scalable and secure applications

• Build, support, and integrate web applications, microservices, and data pipelines on a variety of platforms

• Adopt an inner-source approach and culture to collaborate more effectively

• Use modern software development methodologies and tools like JIRA to manage and deliver projects

• Follow scalable & secure architectural practices to build fault-tolerant distributed systems

• Write automated unit, integration, and deployment tests

• Build and deploy custom WordPress components to our WordPress PaaS provider that powers all public websites for Blackstone

• Use Terraform to create and update infrastructure

• Design data models and persist data to Snowflake and DynamoDB

• Automate deployments using GitLab & Jenkins in coordination with Platform and DevOps engineers

• Identify opportunities to automate away repetitive tasks

• Lead technical design and code reviews to drive projects towards the best results

• Promote, implement, and evolve development best practices

Qualifications:

• 4+ years of Software Engineering Experience with strong object-oriented programming

• Familiarity with Marketing and CMS technologies, preferably WordPress

• Familiarity with developing applications in any one of the public cloud providers, preferably AWS.

• Experience with database