Jobs at BlackRock – Senior Software Engineer

Job Description:

As the senior technical lead for Aladdin Accounting, you’ll lead a team that works closely with BlackRock’s Aladdin Product Management and Design team to build Aladdin’s Accounting platform. Our primary objective is to ensure that systems are highly scalable to support ongoing business demands and client requirements. The team is responsible for delivering tools used by Operations professionals at BlackRock and Aladdin Clients, to calculate Portfolio Valuation, Official Performance and Investment Accounting. Accounting and Performance functionality contributes heavily to the evolution of the Aladdin platform which directly influences the product’s market share. The team has a global footprint with team members in New York, Atlanta, Delaware and Gurgaon.

Job Responsibilities:

• Responsible for availability, scalability, performance and capacity from development through production for a critical strategic build of the new accounting platform
• Reduce errors on deployments, improve reliability, and increase speed of implementation through automation
• Continuously refine and improve our toolset to improve our data and persistence layers
• The ideal candidate will have a background in development, architectural decisions, and business processes to deliver the cleanest solutions.
• Share responsibility for architecting and implementing the firms accounting platforms.

Job Requirements:

• Extensive experience with multi-tier transactional architecture and design
• Experience with Sybase, Cassandra
• Event / Stream processing technologies
• Experience using Agile methodologies – previous experience working from a backlog, sprints, retrospectives etc.
• Passionate about test driven, clean code, automatically tested and continuous deployment
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to present and convey ideas
• Strong attention to detail; attitude, and willingness to roll up sleeves
• Curious to explore emerging technologies and learn new things
• 10+ years of experience in IT including at least 7 years in development / architecture roles
• Extensive experience in enterprise software development in Java and web development stacks (Angular, NodeJS, HTML & CSS)
• Experience building multi-tier, scalable, fault tolerant web applications
• Experience with platform integrations and designing service APIs
• Extensive Service-Oriented Architecture patterns and design knowledge and familiarity with cloud based services
• Expertise with identity management, authentication and information security standard methodologies
• Expertise in working with complex cross-domain applications in a global organization across multiple time zones
• Enjoys a fast paced, high-intensity and complex environment, troubleshooting time sensitive critical issues and working with people

Job Details:

Company:  Blackrock

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: Hagerstown, MD, US

Application Deadline: N/A

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