Software Engineer – Trading

About this role

Junior Software Engineer – Trading

The Trading & Liquidity team within Aladdin Engineering is responsible for designing, development and support of software used by BlackRock and BlackRock Solution clients for all trading workflows. The team’s responsibilities include order management, execution management, pre and post trade analytics, algorithmic trading and liquidity discovery. The team focuses on delivering best-in-class enterprise trading solution for all financial products on one global real-time platform. We are a global team with people based in New York, London, San Francisco, Gurgaon and Budapest.

The Aladdin Trading System consists of applications built using a micro-services architecture and utilizes technologies like Apache Cassandra, a highly available NoSQL database, Apache Zookeeper, a distributed coordinator, distributed streaming middleware like Apache Kafka and AMPS, as well as distributed caching technologies like Redis and Apache Ignite

Responsibilities

• Deliver on projects priorities, deadlines and deliverables using AGILE methodologies
• Contribute well tested, high throughput, scalable, and highly available  code
• Contribute to development of Aladdin’s global, multi-asset trading platform
• Work with product management to understand requirements and translate into work items
• Partner with QA teams to shift testing to the left and improve systems quality and coverage
• Design and develop innovative solutions to complex problems, identifying issues and roadblocks

Qualifications

• 2 + years hands-on experience in Java.
• Experience in building Order and Execution Management, Trading systems is recommended
• Financial experience and exposure to Trading is recommended
• In depth understanding of concurrent programming and experience in designing high throughput, high availability, fault tolerant distributed applications is required.
• Experience in building micro services architecture / SOA
• Experience in message oriented streaming middleware architecture is a plus (Kafka, MQ, NATS, AMPS)
• Experience with orchestration, containerization, and building cloud native applications (AWS, Azure) is a plus
• Experience with modern web technology such as Angular, React, TypeScript a plus
• Strong analytical and software architecture design skills with an emphasis on test driven development.
• Experience in programming languages such as Scala, python would be a plus.
• Expected to drive growth of the trading platform through performance, stability, usability and new investment product capabilities
• Effective communication and presentation skills (written and verbal) required
• Bachelor’s in Computer Science or engineering preferred

Our benefits
To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.

Our hybrid work model

BlackRock’s hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees, while supporting flexibility for all. Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities. We remain focused on increasing the impactful moments that arise when we work together in person – aligned with our commitment to performance and innovation. As a new joiner, you can count on this hybrid model to accelerate your learning and onboarding experience here at BlackRock.

About BlackRock

At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being.  Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children’s educations, buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.

This mission would not be possible without our smartest investment – the one we make in our employees. It’s why we’re dedicated to creating an environment where our colleagues feel welcomed, valued and supported with networks, benefits and development opportunities to help them thrive.

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BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.  We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, disability, family status, gender identity, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation and other protected attributes at law.