Full Stack Engineer

Full Stack Engineer

Job description

About this role

Team Overview

BlackRock SMA Solutions helps clients customize portfolios for unique tax, values-alignment, or investment exposures across direct indexing, fixed income, active equity, and multi-asset. We deliver world-class service to all our clients, from wealth advisors to family offices to endowments and foundations.

Our engineering culture emphasizes innovation, automation, and AI-powered productivity, enabling teams to deliver high-quality solutions faster while continuously improving the developer experience.

Why Join Us

• Work in a modern engineering environment leveraging AI at scale
• Contribute to high-impact fintech products used by global clients
• Be part of a team focused on developer productivity, platform modernization, and innovation
• Gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge tools shaping the future of software engineering

About this Role

At BlackRock SMA Solutions, we are client-obsessed and place user needs at the center of everything we build. This role contributes directly to the evolution of our Arya platform - a modern fintech solution supporting portfolio construction and management.

As a Full Stack Engineer, you will work across our React-based web application and Python microservices architecture, leveraging AI-assisted development tools and automation frameworks to accelerate delivery and improve quality.

You will operate in an agile environment with two-week sprints, collaborating closely with engineering, product, and end users to continuously enhance platform capabilities.

This role is ideal for engineers who are excited to:

• Work across the full technology stack
• Utilize AI tools to accelerate development
• Drive innovation and engineering excellence

Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end feature development across front-end, back-end microservices, and data layers
• Design and develop microservices powering investment portfolio construction and direct indexing solutions
• Build, deploy, and maintain services within a Kubernetes-based cloud environment
• Troubleshoot production issues and provide support for high-availability systems
• Continuously modernize platform components and adopt best-in-class technologies
• Leverage AI coding assistants and agentic workflows to accelerate feature development, testing, and debugging while maintaining high engineering standards

Qualifications

• Required

• Strong foundation in computer science fundamentals (algorithms, data structures, design patterns)

• Full stack web development experience across modern web and backend ecosystems

• At least 3 years of experience in a software engineering role

• Experience in modern object-oriented programming languages (Python, Java, C#, Kotlin, Swift, etc.)

• Familiarity with relational databases and SQL

• Strong communication and collaboration skills

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, interdisciplinary environment

• Preferred

• Experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Windsurf/De