BlackRock · 14 hours ago
Senior Full Stack Engineer - Aladdin Trader, VP
Los Angeles, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
7+ years expBlackRock is a leading financial technology company focused on building innovative technology for the financial markets. The Senior Full Stack Engineer will work on the Aladdin platform, collaborating with product management and engineering teams to design and develop high-quality investment and trading applications.
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Responsibilities
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
An Ideal Candidate Would Be:
Excited both about working collaboratively on multiple large-scale, related trading and investment tools, as well as owning independent feature design and delivery
Able to take ownership over delivery, deployment, release, and support with assistance from the rest of the team
Capable of communicating vision, blockers, progress, and estimates to both technical and non-technical audiences
Able to bring solid software engineering principles to design discussions from a frontend, state-management, or component-design lens; excited to contribute to high-level architectural discussions across backend and frontend
Passionate about creating modern web applications that are streamlined, efficient, and a delight to use
Qualification
Required
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
Preferred
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
Familiarity with UX design tools like Figma
Benefits
Annual discretionary bonus
Healthcare
Leave benefits
Retirement benefits
Strong retirement plan
Tuition reimbursement
Comprehensive healthcare
Support for working parents
Flexible Time Off (FTO)
Company
BlackRock
BlackRock is an investment company that offers its services to institutions, intermediaries, foundations, and individual investors.
10001+ employees
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Funding
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$6.59BKey Investors
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