About this role
Front End Engineering Manager, Software Engineering – AWT
Your team
BlackRock’s Aladdin Wealth Tech (AWT) organization develops technology serving financial advisors and investors. The organization brings together products including Advisor Center, Aladdin Risk for Wealth, and the Separately Managed Account business, working alongside marketing and sales teams to improve the experience of technology products and deepen relationships with financial advisors.
Your role and impact
As an Engineering Manager in Mumbai, you will combine hands-on software engineering with technical and people leadership. You will lead engineers delivering front-end and full-stack capabilities, contribute to product roadmap milestones, and provide technical direction across design, development, testing, troubleshooting, and ongoing enhancement of enterprise systems.
The role requires strong engineering judgment, creative problem solving, and the ability to balance technical delivery with leadership, communication, and decision-making. You will help the team build new capabilities, enhance existing systems, strengthen engineering practices, and continue developing technical expertise.
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 and mentor a team of software engineers delivering front-end and full-stack capabilities, fostering strong engineering practices, learning, and growth.
- Partner with product, design, and quality assurance stakeholders to plan the roadmap, manage delivery, and align engineering priorities with product milestones.
- Provide hands-on engineering leadership across front-end and back-end development, including design, coding, testing, support, troubleshooting, and solutioning.
- Serve as a technical subject-matter expert, translating business requirements into solutions and adopting appropriate languages and frameworks as needed.
- Drive engineering quality through code reviews, timely feedback, continuous testing, debugging, performance optimization, and consistent application of development standards and processes.
- Lead effectively in a globally distributed environment, balancing engineering delivery with sound decision-making, organization, stakeholder management, and communication.
- Stay current with relevant engineering practices and emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), and apply them appropriately to improve product quality, reliability, and innovation.
Your experience
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent experience, together with substantial professional software-development experience (10+ years).
- Strong front-end engineering experience building client-facing applications using React or Angular, complemented by full-stack development capabilities.
- Proficiency/Familiarity in Java and related frameworks such as Spring Boot and Hibernate, with strong knowledge of object-oriented development, algorithms, data structures, and software design patterns.
- Experience with modern software-engineering practices, including Git, Maven, unit and integration testing, mocking frameworks, code review, security, stability, and software-quality practices.
- Experience leading engineers and collaborating with product, design, quality assurance, and other stakeholders in a globally distributed environment, supported by strong communication, presentation, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills.
- Experience with cloud services and technologies such as Open Container Initiative (OCI) container image packaging and runtime, enterprise-grade container orchestration platforms supporting declarative infrastructure and horizontal scaling, distributed event streaming and messaging platforms, and API gateway technologies is beneficial. Financial-domain experience is also advantageous.
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 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.
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, family status, gender identity, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation and other protected attributes at law.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent experience
- 10+ years of professional software development experience
- Strong front-end engineering experience building client-facing applications with React or Angular
- Full-stack development experience
- Proficiency or familiarity with Java, Spring Boot, and Hibernate
- Strong knowledge of object-oriented development, algorithms, data structures, and software design patterns
- Experience with Git, Maven, unit and integration testing, mocking frameworks, code review, security, stability, and software-quality practices
- Experience leading engineers and collaborating with product, design, quality assurance, and other stakeholders
- Strong communication, presentation, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills
- Experience working in a globally distributed environment
- Experience with OCI container image packaging and runtime, container orchestration, distributed event streaming and messaging, and API gateway technologies
- Financial-domain experience
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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