Description
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 of our clients, from wealth advisors to family offices to endowments and foundations.
As a Full Stack Developer, you will contribute to BlackRock's codebase and collaborate with users to identify their needs and help them be more efficient. Our platform, Arya, is based on microservices architecture with a web application built using React and TypeScript, and microservices written in Python.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and develop parts of the microservices ecosystem for equity portfolio construction tools for direct indexing.
- Support building and releasing software components and deploying them to enterprise-grade container orchestration platforms.
- Provide continuous improvements to our enterprise fintech platform through modernization of current components and choice of contemporary technologies.
- Write code that is easily understood and maintainable by other team members.
- Fully own feature development, from adding capabilities in microservices to adding structures in relational databases to adding features to the front-end of our web applications.
- Build robust and maintainable web-based user interfaces that provide a delightful user experience.
- Take a lead role on projects and initiatives.
- Mentor and help grow junior members of the team.
- Keep up to date with developments in technologies we are using.
- Actively participate in recruitment efforts.
Qualifications
- Solid knowledge of programming fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, design patterns, and paradigms.
- Strong understanding of application architecture and various ways of integrating different components of a distributed software ecosystem.
- Seasoned Python background or experience with related modern object-oriented languages is a plus.
- Advanced knowledge of web development is a plus.
- Five-plus years' experience in a similar role.
- Experience leading projects and teams.
- Experience in an Amazon Web Services (AWS) ecosystem.
- Familiarity with relational databases.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to communicate and work effectively, supporting various business departments.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced interdisciplinary environment.
Benefits
- Competitive salary: $162,000 - $215,000 per year
- Annual discretionary bonus
- Comprehensive healthcare
- Leave benefits
- Retirement benefits
- Tuition reimbursement
- Flexible Time Off (FTO)