# Lead Java Developer, Software Engineering – Platform Engineering

**Company**: BlackRock
**Location**: New York, NY
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $162,000.00 - $215,000.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q219635

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## Description

As a Lead Java Developer in Platform Engineering at BlackRock, you will develop and enhance scalable software systems, build foundational capabilities, and improve the developer experience across Aladdin.

You will work in a complex, fast-paced environment where collaboration, thoughtful analysis, clear communication, and the ability to learn and apply new concepts are important.

Responsibilities:

- Collaborate across offices and countries with engineering colleagues, product management, and business partners to define product roadmaps and delivery priorities.

- Evolve continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, build systems, package-management capabilities, enterprise-grade container orchestration platforms supporting declarative infrastructure and horizontal scaling, and Open Container Initiative (OCI) container image packaging and runtime.

- Deliver efficient, highly available, concurrent, and fault-tolerant software systems.

- Design and develop innovative solutions to complex problems, identifying issues, dependencies, and potential roadblocks.

- Apply established software engineering practices throughout the development lifecycle.

- Promote an inclusive and collaborative culture.

- Lead individual projects by managing priorities, deadlines, deliverables, and technical decisions using Agile methodologies.

Experience:

- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or comparable practical experience.

- 8-10+ years of strong software development experience using core Java, object-oriented programming, design patterns, and relevant backend or frontend technologies.

- Experience working with relational databases, highly available distributed non-relational data storage platforms, scalable distributed data and caching platforms, and distributed event streaming and messaging platforms.

- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

- Experience leading software projects or development teams.

Benefits:

- Competitive salary: $162,000.00 - $215,000.00 per year

- Annual discretionary bonus

- Comprehensive healthcare

- Leave benefits

- Retirement benefits

- Tuition reimbursement

- Flexible Time Off (FTO)

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- object-oriented programming
- design patterns
- Spring
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- Angular
- React
- Python
- relational databases
- distributed data storage
- caching platforms
- event streaming
- messaging platforms

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