Java Backend Engineer, Associate

About this role

About the Role

Are you interested in building innovative technology that crafts the financial markets? Do you like working at the speed of a startup, and solving some of the world’s most exciting challenges? Do you want to work with, and learn from, hands-on leaders in technology and finance?

At BlackRock, we are looking for Software Engineers who like to innovate and solve sophisticated problems. We recognize that strength comes from diversity, and will embrace your outstanding skills, curiosity, and passion while giving you the opportunity to grow technically and as an individual.

We invest and protect over $9 trillion (USD) of assets and have an extraordinary responsibility to our clients all over the world. Our technology empowers millions of investors to save for retirement, pay for college, buy a home, and improve their financial well-being.

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

About the Team

• You’ll be working on BlackRock’s investment operating system called Aladdin, which is used by BlackRock and many of the most sophisticated financial institutions around the world. Aladdin combines sophisticated risk analytics with comprehensive portfolio management, trading, and operations tools on a single platform to power informed decision-making and create a connective tissue for thousands of users investing worldwide.
• The Multi-Asset Solutions Lab (MAS Lab) is a global team of product managers, engineers, and designers on a dual mission: supporting the continued growth of the MASS business and evolving Aladdin's whole portfolio capabilities.
• You will work closely with teams across Aladdin Engineering, Aladdin Data, and MASS to build innovative solutions to some of our most complex challenges. The team’s work is critical to advancing many of BlackRock high-growth offerings, including Outsourced CIO, Model Portfolio Solutions, LifePath, and more.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with team members in a multi-office, multi-country environment.
• Deliver high efficiency, high availability, concurrent and fault tolerant software systems.
• Partner with product management, design, and stakeholders through all phases of the product lifecycle — from design through development, release, and ongoing support.
• Enhance, debug, support, maintain, and test software applications that support the business.
• Apply validated quality software engineering practices through all phases of development.
• Ensure resilience and stability through quality code reviews, unit, regression and user acceptance testing, dev ops and level two production support.
• Drive a strong culture by bringing principles of inclusion and diversity to the team and setting the tone through specific recruiting, management actions and employee engagement.

Desired Skills & Experience:

• Strong programming skills with 4+ years of experience in Java, Spring Boot, Angular/React.
• A proven foundation in core Java and related technologies, with object-oriented skills and design patterns.
• Understanding of relational databases is a must.
• Track record building high quality software with design-focused and test-driven approaches.
• Hands-on experience in Java/ Spring Framework/Sprint Boot/Hibernate.
• In depth understanding of concurrent programming and experience in designing high throughput, high availability, fault tolerant distributed applications.
• Demonstrable experience building modern software using engineering tools such as git, maven, unit testing and integration testing tools, mocking frameworks.
• Be a leader with vision and a mentor to junior team members to enhance their skills in architecture, standards development, and best practices.
• Great analytical, problem-solving and communication skills.
• Some experience or a real interest in finance, investment processes, and/or an ability to translate business problems into technical solutions.
• English proficiency

Nice to have (or a desire to learn!):

• Exposure to Python, including unit and end-to-end testing framework.

• Experience building microservices and APIs, ideally with REST, Kafka, or gRPC.
• Exposure to NoSQL (Cassandra) and data warehousing solutions like Snowflake.
• Experience with Cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud.
• Experience with AI-related projects/products or experience working in an AI research environment.

Our benefits
To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents 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.

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.

For additional information on BlackRock, please visit @blackrock | Twitter: @blackrock | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/blackrock

BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, and other statuses protected by law.

BlackRock will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in a manner consistent with the requirements of the law, including any applicable fair chance law.