# Senior Java Engineer

**Company**: BlackRock
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q219635

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## Description

We are looking for a Senior Java Engineer to build high-impact technology that solves complex business problems, collaborating closely with colleagues throughout the business.

The role is in BlackRock Global Markets In-Business technology group based out of our London office. We are a global team of computer scientists, user experience designers, and data analytics engineers, operating out of San Francisco, London, Hungary, and India.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Partner with business users and stakeholders to define functional/non-functional requirements and document assumptions and clarify open questions;

- Translate complex business/technical requirements into sequenced delivery tasks, identifying dependencies, documenting assumptions and open questions;

- Architect, design, develop, test, and support Java-based applications;

- Communicate requirements, assumptions, design options, selected decisions, and rationale clearly and concisely;

- Contributing to technical design and code reviews;

- Improving reliability, observability, and performance;

- Supporting production releases in line with team standards;

- Suggest/champion SDLC process improvement where they improve quality, reliability, or delivery efficiency.

**Required Skills and Experience:**

- 8+ years of development experience ideally in the financial services industry with Java as the primary programming language;

- Experience designing and building performant applications that handle large volumes, concurrency, and/or latency-sensitive workloads;

- Building applications with Spring, Spring Boot, REST API's, microservice architecture, and event-driven systems and middleware;

- Experience with relational & cloud-based data platforms;

- Experience with Agile delivery practices, DevOps tooling, CI/CD, and automation;

- Experience with distributed event streaming and messaging platforms;

- Motivated team player with a flexible, open-minded approach;

- Strong analytical capability and attention to detail;

- Strong ownership mindset, with experience supporting production systems and driving issues through to resolution;

- High integrity and alignment with BlackRock's fiduciary culture.

**Desirable Skills:**

- Knowledge of AI for code generation & building AI agents;

- Knowledge of Spring, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and microservices;

- Experience with enterprise-grade container orchestration platforms supporting declarative infrastructure and horizontal scaling;

- Experience with observability, monitoring, and distributed tracing solutions;

- Experience with DevOps and tools.

**Benefits:**

- Retirement investment and tools designed to help you build a sound financial future;

- Access to education reimbursement;

- Comprehensive resources to support your physical health and emotional well-being;

- Family support programs;

- Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge, and be there for the people you care about.

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Spring
- Spring Boot
- REST API's
- microservice architecture
- event-driven systems
- middleware
- relational & cloud-based data platforms
- Agile delivery practices
- DevOps tooling
- CI/CD
- automation
- distributed event streaming and messaging platforms

### Nice to have
- AI for code generation & building AI agents
- enterprise-grade container orchestration platforms
- observability
- monitoring
- distributed tracing solutions

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