Associate, Frontend Software Engineer (React)

About This Role 

We are looking for a Frontend Software Engineer to help build and enhance our internal platform which supports operations, sales, and portfolio management workflows. In this role, you will create intuitive user experiences that help investment professionals analyze data, manage strategies, and make informed decisions. 

This is an opportunity to work on complex, business-critical applications in a fast-paced environment, partnering closely with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful technology. At BlackRock, your work will combine the scale and stability of a global firm with the ownership and innovation of a product-driven engineering team. 

With over USD $14 trillion of assets, we have an exceptional responsibility: our technology empowers millions of investors to save for retirement, pay for university, buy a home, and improve their financial well-being. 

Being an engineer at BlackRock means you get the best of both worlds: working for one of the most sophisticated financial companies while being part of a software development team responsible for next-generation technology and solutions. 

About You 

• Tenacious: You excel in a fast-paced, highly complex environment and persist in solving tough challenges. 

• Creative problem solver: You analyze multiple solutions and deploy technologies in a flexible way to tackle problems efficiently. 

• Collaborative teammate: You think and work collaboratively, communicate effectively, and inspire those around you. 

• Fast learner: You pick up new concepts quickly and apply them to your work with minimal guidance. 
   

What you’ll do: 

• Contribute to continuous improvement of engineering ways of working (CI/CD, automated testing, best practices) 

• Design and build complex, workflow-driven user interfaces using TypeScript and React 

• Drive performance optimization, maintainability, and architectural consistency across applications 

• Collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver business-critical enhancements 

Skills and Experience: 

• Strong expertise in TypeScript and React 

• Expertise building and maintaining tooling for TypeScript projects (e.g., build systems, testing frameworks, developer workflows) 

• Experience building large-scale, production-grade front-end applications 

• Deep understanding of UI architecture, state management, and performance optimization 

• UX expertise: experience designing intuitive applications that distill complex, real-time data into clear, actionable user experiences, with a strong focus on user productivity 

• Take ownership of parts of a SaaS product, including production monitoring and incident resolution 

• Demonstrable experience building modern software using engineering tools such as git, unit testing and integration testing tools, mocking frameworks.