# Associate Engineer – BlackRock SMA Solutions

**Company**: BlackRock
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: USD$120,000.00 - USD$148,000.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q219635

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## Description

We are expanding our team of engineers that owns and operates an extensive technology platform for BlackRock SMA Solutions, a quantitative, multi-asset investment management business. As a member of this team, you will build, enhance, and support micro-services that enable financial portfolio construction, data integrations, and real-time operational workflows.

Responsibilities:

- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, STEM or similar technical field, OR equivalent practical experience

- 2-5 years of professional software development experience

- Strong Python or C# experience

- Experience building and supporting production applications, services or APIs

- Strong SQL / relational database experience (MySQL preferred)

- Hands-on cloud experience (AWS, Azure or GCP, AWS strongly preferred)

- Docker/Containers experience (experience building, packaging and deploying containerized applications)

- Experience with standard software development practices (Git/Source Control, CI/CD, Testing, Debugging/troubleshooting)

Preferred Requirements:

- AWS Development (Lambda, ECS/EKS, SQS/SNS, API Gateway, RDS, CloudFormation or Terraform)

- Experience building cloud-native or serverless applications

- Experience developing APIs and backend services

- Experience with Pandas and NumPy

- Experience with data-heavy applications or data processing pipelines

- Experience with Kubernetes

- Experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform or CloudFormation

- Experience with distributed or event-driven systems

- Experience with application monitoring / observability

- Financial/fintech experience, particularly experience with Options, Derivatives, Equities, Bonds, Fixed Income, Capital Markets, Portfolio Management or Trading Workflows

Benefits:

- Salary range: USD$120,000.00 - USD$148,000.00

- Annual discretionary bonus

- Healthcare

- Leave benefits

- Retirement benefits

- Tuition reimbursement

- Flexible Time Off (FTO)

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- C#
- SQL
- MySQL
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- CloudFormation
- Git
- CI/CD
- Testing
- Debugging

### Nice to have
- Lambda
- ECS/EKS
- SQS/SNS
- API Gateway
- RDS
- Pandas
- NumPy
- infrastructure as code

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