Software Engineer, VP - Liquid Credit, Front Office

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.

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 entrepreneurial – our open, iterative design processes and rapid pace of engineering mean that everyone on the team can 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.

The Liquid Credit Technology team develops modern fixed-income asset management systems including portfolio management systems, order management systems, execution management systems, and trade processing to support Liquid Credit Strategies (“LCS”) business. LCS manages $114B in AUM across diversified portfolios of fixed income investments, such as bank loans, high yield bonds, CDS/CDX, Future, Repo, CMBS/RMBS, CLO debt and equity tranches. The new hire will be a key member of the team developing software solutions for the portfolio managers and traders.

Our existing applications are built on a highly scalable microservice architecture deployed in a cloud-hosted containerized environment. Key technologies in our stack include Angular, React, Fast API, Python, C#, Terraform, SQL, AWS ECS, AWS Lambda, AWS SNS/SQS, CI/CD tooling (e.g., Jenkins, Gitlab Runners), and data warehouse solutions like Snowflake.

Responsibilities:

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

• Build, support, and integrate web applications, microservices, and data pipelines on many platforms with high code quality.

• Write automated units, integration, and deployment tests.

• Utilize standard CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitLab Runners) to build and deploy application code in various environments.

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

• Lead technical design and code reviews with team members, participate in Agile ceremonies, and troubleshoot software defects.

• Provide technical support, automate repetitive tasks, and stay updated with industry trends and emerging technologies.

• Mentor and train junior developers, contribute to the collaborative team culture, and demonstrate a willingness to learn from others.

Qualifications:

We seek to hire individuals who are highly motivated, intelligent, and have demonstrated excellence in prior endeavors. In addition, the successful candidate should have:

• 7+ years of proven software engineering experience in relevant industry, with proficiency in C# and/or Python, JavaScript, Typescript, databases (relational and/or NoSQL), and cloud technologies, preferably AWS.

• Experience as a hands-on tech lead with effective collaboration with business, product managers, UX designers, and other tech leads

• Self-starter with an entrepreneurial attitude, willing to teach and mentor others, and desire to work in a dynamic team environment 

• Experience with RESTful API design, development, and scalable microservice architectures

• Ability to develop scalable, secure, and maintainable code, with a strong background in object-oriented programming