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You will be working on BlackRock's investment tooling, operations, and application system called Aladdin. Aladdin combines sophisticated risk analytics with comprehensive portfolio management, trading, and operations tools on a single platform to power informed decision-making and create a connective tissue for thousands of users investing worldwide. Our development teams reside inside the Aladdin Engineering group. We collaboratively build the next generation of technology that changes the way information, people, and technology intersect for global investment firms. We build and package tools that manage trillions in assets and supports millions of financial instruments.
Job Responsibility:
Collaborate with product management, quality assurance, and business users to design new features for existing and new React web-based investment/trading applications
develop high-quality, efficient, and fault-tolerant code
and validate releases via code reviews, detailed testing, dev ops, and level two production support
Work with other frontend engineers to collaborate on common React components and utilities, build new features across multiple different apps, design and integrate APIs for multiple use-cases, contribute to a shared integration and testing suite, and design a thoughtful and efficient state management flow across the platform
Work with backend engineers to design data contracts and APIs, integrate with existing and new data schemas, collaborate on testing and production support, and build out new features together
Work closely with product team to learn about trading/investment workflows, estimate scope of work, perform demos, communicate technical blockers and challenges to non-technical audiences, and translate high-level vision into functional and non-functional requirements
Work closely with quality assurance team to design overall testing strategy, perform joint testing when required, contribute to automated testing suite, and validate releases before deployment
Work closely with users, other engineers, and SREs to provide level two production support, utilizing monitoring and logging tools to identify issues and quickly provide fixes
Must be comfortable collaborating with team members in a multi-office, multi-country environment, while also being in office 4 days a week
Requirements:
B.S. or any other relevant engineering degree
7+ years of experience working as a front-end engineer on production code, creating and deploying web apps in React (ideally external, customer-facing applications) and Typescript, CSS / SCSS, HTML
Experience using state management tools like Redux, RxJs, Zustand, and/or Jotai to orchestrate complex state workflows and asynchronous APIs
Experience working with backend languages like Java, Spring and the open-source technology stack (Spring, Hibernate, Maven, JUnit, etc.)
Comfortable using all standard React hooks and creating custom hooks for different usecases
Experience writing integration and unit tests with tools like Cypress, Jest, Cucumber
Experience with API design and/or development, ideally with REST or through GraphQL
A proven foundation in core front-end languages (React/Typescript preferred) but with a solid background in object-oriented programming, software engineering design patterns, and test-driven development
Experience with Git and code collaboration tools
Great analytical, problem-solving and communication skills to both technical and non-technical audiences
Experience providing production support and using logging/monitoring tools like Visualization and analytics platforms for metrics and logs, Splunk
Some experience or a real interest in finance, investment processes, and/or an ability to translate business problems into technical solutions
Nice to have:
Exposure to or interest in streaming technologies like Web Sockets, AMPs, etc
Experience working in an Agile development team or on open-source development projects
Familiarity with dev ops tools like AzureDevOps a plus
Experience building out reusable React components or styling libraries