Application Engineer (ETF Dev)

About This Role

This role involves building innovative technology that shapes financial markets, specifically focusing on the ETF development team within the Aladdin Engineering group at BlackRock. This position requires designing, developing, and maintaining high-efficiency, highly available, concurrent, and fault-tolerant applications for a software platform that oversees the global iShares investment process.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, deliver, and maintain applications with focus on high efficiency, high availability, concurrent and fault tolerant software
• Demonstrate technical leadership of software design & architecture to support strategic product roadmap
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams in a multi-office, multi-country environment to define, design, and ship high-quality software solutions
• Design and develop innovative solutions to complex problems, identifying issues and roadblocks
• Work with project managers, technical leads, and business analysts to contribute throughout the SDLC cycle
• Manage stakeholders for driving business decisions, negotiating priorities, and partner with various business teams to drive strategy and technology adoption
• Ensure scale, resilience and stability through risk identification and mitigation, quality code reviews, creating robust test suites, and providing level two support
• Foster continuous improvement in software development practices through innovation and automation
• Stay up to date with industry trends and emerging technologies to continuously improve development processes

Requirements

• Hands-on programming experience in Java and/or Python with OO skills and design patterns
• Exposure to building microservices and APIs ideally with Kafka or gRPC
• Experience working with relational and NoSQL databases (such as SQL Server, Apache Cassandra)
• Experience with DevOps, continuous integration, and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, and tools like Azure DevOps
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and software architecture skills
• Experience in partnering with other teams, sponsors, and user groups who are on the same product journey
• Ability to work in Agile/Scrum development environments with strong teamwork, communication, and time management skills
• Innovative and a thought leader around new/cutting-edge technologies

Qualifications

• B.S. / M.S. college degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related subject area
• 3+ years of hands-on development exposure

Nice to Have

• Exposure to and innovative thinking around AI workflows and code generation
• Experience with financial applications
• Experience with cloud native tools (such as Kubernetes, Docker) and cloud platforms (such as Azure, AWS, or GCP)
• Exposure to high scale distributed technologies such as Kafka, Ignite, Redis
• Experience or real interest in finance, investment processes, and/or an ability to translate business problems into technical solutions

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits