About this role
Aladdin Investments and Trading Engineering is responsible for building and evolving technology that supports portfolio management, trading, analytics, and compliance workflows across global markets. Within Analytics & Compliance Engineering, the team develops highly scalable technology solutions that help investment professionals and compliance teams manage investment guidelines, regulatory obligations, analytics-driven workflows, and operational controls.
The Investment and Trading Compliance Engineering team delivers technology that supports compliance throughout the asset management lifecycle. These platforms help organizations monitor and manage adherence to client mandates, internal policies, and regulatory requirements through high-throughput rule-processing capabilities operating at enterprise scale. The team is modernizing these platforms through workflow-driven user experiences, resilient service architectures, and responsible AI capabilities that enhance productivity, decision-making, and operational efficiency.
Your Role and Impact
As an AI-Enabled Product Engineer, you will operate at the intersection of investment technology, compliance workflows, software engineering, and applied artificial intelligence. You will help shape the next generation of platform capabilities that support investment professionals, compliance specialists, and business stakeholders operating in complex global markets.
This role combines hands-on software engineering with technical leadership responsibilities. You will contribute directly to product delivery while driving adoption of AI-enabled engineering practices that accelerate development, improve quality, and increase operational effectiveness. Your work will influence both product outcomes and broader engineering practices across the organization.
Your Responsibilities
In every role at BlackRock, you'll be expected to apply sound judgement and critical thinking to solve complex problems, adapt as the business evolves, and combine the curiosity to explore new approaches and technologies with the rigor to challenge the results. The scope of this role also includes the following responsibilities:
- Lead the design, development, delivery, and operational support of scalable full-stack product capabilities across Analytics & Compliance Engineering, providing hands-on technical leadership throughout the product lifecycle.
- Partner with product, engineering, compliance, and business stakeholders to define requirements, shape architecture, evaluate trade-offs, and align teams on technical direction and delivery plans.
- Apply AI-enabled engineering practices and embed responsible AI capabilities into products and services to improve productivity, automation, knowledge discovery, and decision-making.
- Build scalable, resilient, secure, and observable systems that balance performance, reliability, maintainability, and operational efficiency.
- Champion engineering excellence through automated testing, software quality practices, development operations, production readiness, and site reliability engineering principles.
- Mentor engineers, elevate technical standards, and contribute to a culture of innovation, accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning.
- Drive platform modernization initiatives that improve user experiences, operational controls, and business outcomes across investment and compliance workflows.
Your Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related STEM discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience delivering enterprise-scale applications and platforms in production environments.
- Demonstrated experience using AI-enabled engineering practices, intelligent development tools, and responsible AI techniques to accelerate software delivery and product innovation.
- Strong full-stack engineering expertise with modern application architectures, APIs, distributed systems, and large-scale platform design.
- Experience building and operating cloud-native platforms using modern infrastructure, deployment, observability, and platform engineering practices, including enterprise-grade container orchestration platforms supporting declarative infrastructure and horizontal scaling.
- Experience in financial services, investment technology, compliance technology, or regulatory technology environments, with an understanding of controls-oriented workflows.
- Excellent communication, leadership, stakeholder management, and influencing skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
Our benefits
To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of employee benefits including: retirement investment and tools designed to help you in building a sound financial future; access to education reimbursement; comprehensive resources to support your physical health and emotional well-being; family support programs; and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.
Our hybrid work model
BlackRock’s hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees, while supporting flexibility for all. Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities. We remain focused on increasing the impactful moments that arise when we work together in person – aligned with our commitment to performance and innovation. As a new joiner, you can count on this hybrid model to accelerate your learning and onboarding experience here at BlackRock.
Guidance on AI use for candidates
At BlackRock, AI has long been part of how we work – enhancing decision-making, improving operations, and helping us deliver better outcomes for clients. We encourage candidates to use AI thoughtfully to learn, prepare, and work more effectively; but during our interview process, we want to focus on getting to know you through your own experiences, thinking, and judgment. To support you, we’ve provided guidance on when and how to use AI during our hiring process so you can approach each step with confidence and showcase your best self.
About BlackRock
At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being. Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children’s educations, buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.
This mission would not be possible without our smartest investment – the one we make in our employees. It’s why we’re dedicated to creating an environment where our colleagues feel welcomed, valued and supported with networks, benefits and development opportunities to help them thrive.
To learn more about BlackRock, please visit Careers.BlackRock.com. We also encourage you to get to know us on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, X, and TikTok.
BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, disability, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation and other protected characteristics at law.
Skills Required
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, a related STEM discipline, or equivalent professional experience
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Experience delivering enterprise-scale systems in production
- Strong full-stack engineering experience with modern backend and frontend technologies
- Experience with Java or another modern backend language and React or Angular
- Experience with distributed systems, APIs, data flows, event-driven architecture, and resilient platform design
- Experience leading technical initiatives and delivering outcomes with cross-functional partners
- Experience with Agile, DevOps, automated testing, TDD, BDD, code reviews, observability, resiliency, and production support
- Experience applying AI-enabled SDLC or PDLC practices
- Experience embedding AI capabilities into product workflows and platform services responsibly and securely
- Experience working in large, global engineering organizations
- Excellent communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills
- Exposure to generative AI, large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, semantic search, embeddings, knowledge retrieval, or agentic workflows
- Experience in financial services, investment technology, compliance technology, regulatory technology, portfolio management, trading, or enterprise SaaS
- Familiarity with compliance workflows, investment guidelines, regulatory obligations, or controls-oriented technology
- Experience with cloud-native or hybrid architectures, containerization, Kubernetes, observability platforms, CI/CD, and platform engineering
- Experience with AI governance, responsible AI, evaluation frameworks, model quality metrics, or AI system monitoring
- Exposure to domain-driven design, micro frontend architectures, platform strategies, or modular product architectures
BlackRock Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive, including medical, dental, and vision plans with HSA/FSA options and telemedicine. Mental-health resources such as counseling/EAP, wellness incentives, and Calm access are also featured.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include savings plans, employer-supported contributions described as competitive in summaries, and financial education resources. An Employee Stock Purchase Plan is also noted in certain locations.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is gender-neutral with up to 16 weeks for primary caregivers and 4 weeks for non-primary caregivers. Additional supports include adoption assistance, fertility benefits in some locations, childcare/elder-care resources, and nursing-mother programs.
BlackRock Insights
What We Do
As the world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock partners with investors around the globe to help them (and those on whose behalf they invest) plan for life’s most important goals – like retirement, home ownership and their children’s education. Our clients range from governments, foundations and other large institutions to those investing on behalf of individuals, including firefighters, nurses, teachers and factory workers. BlackRock was founded with the idea of creating a better asset management firm — one that was purpose-driven, focused on clients and risk management, and propelled by data and technology. Our breakthrough Aladdin® platform is BlackRock’s technological backbone, helping investors see and manage their whole portfolios in one place – from constructing investments to monitoring risk and executing trades. Used by hundreds of external institutions around the world, Aladdin combines powerful analytics and a common language to help investment teams make faster, more informed decisions across public and private markets. It’s a key part of our business and one of the reasons we’re trusted to manage more assets than any other investment manager today. At BlackRock, we challenge conventions and raise the bar for what’s possible. We harness technology to unlock new solutions, simplify complexity, and deliver investment strategies that meet people where they are. Whether it’s retirement planning, wealth building or navigating market shifts, we’re here to help clients invest more easily, more affordably and with more choice as we chart a path toward financial well-being together. Learn more: Careers.BlackRock.com
Why Work With Us
Without our people, technology is irrelevant. When we combine the power of people with the power of technology, we amplify our ability to create better outcomes for our employees, clients, shareholders and society alike.
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