Associate, Application Engineer

About this role

Company: BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.

Job Title: Associate, Application Engineer

Location: 400 Howard St San Francisco, CA 94105

Job Duties: Responsible for end-to-end development and deployment of software powering the Aladdin product, ensuring high scalability, performance, and reliability. Collaborate closely with users, business analysts, and senior tech leads to design robust software solutions. Analyze user needs and software requirements to determine the feasibility of designs within project time and budget constraints. Evaluate and recommend installation of new systems or modifications to existing systems based on comprehensive information analysis. Engage with systems analysts, engineers, and programmers to design systems, understanding project limitations, capabilities, performance requirements, and interfaces. Utilize high-level programming languages such as Java, Python, and proficiently manage enterprise frameworks including Maven and Spring, along with SQL and NoSQL solutions like Cassandra, to implement scalable and efficient software solutions. Design, develop, and maintain enterprise-level, scalable, extensible, and high-performing APIs using technologies such as gRPC and REST. Design, develop, and modify software systems using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcomes and consequences of design decisions. Lead the development of frontend designs for entire web applications, overseeing the implementation of user interface screens using React, Angular, and technologies like Redux, NPM, Node, Cypress, and Jest. Mentor junior team members, conduct code reviews, and impart domain knowledge to foster skill development and maintain high coding standards. Spearhead the integration of AI/ML features such as advanced text summarization, recommendations, and collaborative tools (e.g., copilot) to enhance product functionality and user engagement. Drive innovation and technical excellence across the team, continuously evaluating emerging technologies and industry trends to influence development strategies. Implement comprehensive testing strategies, including unit tests (Junit), end-to-end testing, and regression testing, ensuring robustness and reliability of software systems. Manage the software development lifecycle, including practicing agile development methodologies, building and maintaining efficient CI/CD pipelines, and overseeing release processes. Demonstrate strong problem-solving skills and deep understanding of the software ecosystem to support production issues effectively.

Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, or a related field; and 2 years of experience as an Analyst, or related role. Requires 2 years of experience involving the following:

 • Enterprise level software development languages including Java and Python

• Frameworks: Maven, Spring and Hibernate

• Front End UI development using React with in state management libraries and patterns like Redux or Context API, RTK Queries, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, TypeScript

• Version control tools including Git

• Designing, developing and maintaining enterprise-level distributed, scalable, extensible and high performing APIs – gRPC, REST, API Authentication (OAuth, JWT) and documentation (Swagger or OpenAPI), Protobuf, Kafka

• Writing unit tests during development cycle, end-to-end testing, and regression testing using Junit, Mockito, Jest, Cucumber

• Database and caching and technologies including SQL and No-SQL databases (Cassandra) and Ignite

• Object-oriented design and programming, multi-threading, scalable design, microservices architecture, different design patterns, and software development best practices

• Integrating AI/ML features into software products, such as advanced text summarization, recommendation systems, or collaborative tools

• Software development life cycle, which includes business requirements gathering, creating high and low level technical designs and agile development practices

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For San Francisco, CA Only the salary range for this position is USD$155,605.00 - USD$162,500.00 . Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, and benefits including heath care, leave benefits, and retirement benefits. BlackRock operates a pay-for-performance compensation philosophy and your total compensation may vary based on role, location, and firm, department and individual performance.

 

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.

For additional information on BlackRock, please visit @blackrock | Twitter: @blackrock | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/blackrock

BlackRock is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to all applicants and existing employees, and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity/expression), sexual orientation, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability, marital status, political affiliation, religion, citizenship status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. View the EEOC’s Know Your Rights poster and its supplement and the pay transparency statement.

 

BlackRock is committed to full inclusion of all qualified individuals and to providing reasonable accommodations or job modifications for individuals with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation/adjustments are needed throughout the employment process, please email Disability.Assistance@blackrock.com. All requests are treated in line with our privacy policy.

We recruit, hire, train, promote, pay, and administer all personnel actions without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), sex stereotyping (including assumptions about a person’s appearance or behavior, gender roles, gender expression, or gender identity), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, mental or physical disability, ancestry, medical condition, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law. We interpret these protected statuses broadly to include both the actual status and also any perceptions and assumptions made regarding these statuses.BlackRock will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in a manner consistent with the requirements of the law, including any applicable fair chance law.