About this role
Software Engineer
Job description
About this role
Business Overview
BlackRock Global Markets (“BGM”) functions are at the core of BlackRock’s markets and investments platform, including Index Investments, Markets, Liquidity & Financing, and Platform & Strategy. BGM is focused on advancing the investment processes and platform architecture in these areas and on ensuring we engage with other market participants in a collaborative, strategic way.
We believe diverse perspectives drive better outcomes and foster an inclusive environment where everyone can grow and contribute.
With over USD $15.3 trillion of assets under management, we have an outstanding responsibility: our technology empowers millions of investors to save for retirement, pay for college, buy a home and improve their financial wellbeing.
Position Overview & Key Responsibilities
We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer to build reliable scalable technology that helps Blackrock Global Markets meet complex business challenges while working closely with colleagues throughout the business.
Key responsibilities include
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Partnering with stakeholders to understand requirements;
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Designing, developing, testing, and supporting reliable, highly performant distributed Java-based applications, including real-time streaming with high volume and concurrent workloads.
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Presenting designs to technical reviewers, contributing to reviewing designs/code
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Improving reliability, observability, and performance;
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Supporting production releases to help team meet SLAs.
The role is within BGM’s In-Business technology group in London. We are a community of computer scientists, user experience designers, and data analytics engineers, operating out of San Francisco, London, Hungary and India. The team is highly sought after to tackle analytically intensive challenges and present them in intuitive and visually compelling ways. Given the complex nature of our business, we value open communication and eagerness to learn.
Required Skills and Experience
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Typically 3+ years’ development experience ideally in financial services industry with java as primary programming language
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Collaborative, adaptable and open to different perspectives and ways of working
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Strong analytical capability and attention to detail
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Clear communicator with strong interpersonal skills
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High integrity and alignment with BlackRock’s fiduciary culture
Desirable skills
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Knowledge of leveraging AI for code generation and building agents
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Knowledge of Spring, Spring Boot, REST APIs and microservices
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Experience with a relational database like MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Sybase ASE
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Experience with Streaming technologies like Kafka, Apache Flink
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Experience with cloud technologies, such as Microsoft Azure
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Experience with Agile process
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Experience with DevOps and tools like Azure DevOps
Our benefits
To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of employee benefits including: retirement