Associate, Application Engineer III

BlackRock•San Francisco, CA

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

BlackRock Financial Management, Inc. is hiring an Associate, Application Engineer III in San Francisco, California. The role builds and supports financial desktop and web applications for fixed-income trading. The applications must be performant, scalable, distributed, and capable of displaying real-time data updates, bond calculations, and key metrics. The engineer develops client-facing workflows and APIs, partners with product management and quality assurance, deploys production code to client environments, and provides operational support. The role also includes mentoring junior engineers and organizing Agile and SDLC meetings.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field.
Three years of experience as an Associate, Analyst, or in a related role.
Three years of experience with React and TypeScript.
Three years of experience with state management frameworks including Redux and Jotai.
Three years of experience with HTML, CSS, and Sass.
Three years of experience with Git, AquaDataStudio, ADO, and Agile methodologies.
Three years of experience with Java 17, SQL, and GraphQL.
Three years of experience with data streaming tools including RESTful APIs, WebSockets, Faraday, and AMPs.
Three years of experience with frontend testing frameworks including Cypress and Cucumber.
Three years of experience with financial products and tools including FIX messaging and protocol, TradeWeb, and MarketAxess.
Three years of experience with US, EMEA, and APAC bond trading markets for corporate, treasury, and MUNI bonds, including anonymous trading, straight-through processing (click-to-trade workflows), and portfolio trading.
Three years of experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment tools including SonarQube, Jenkins, JFrog Artifactory, and Grafana.
Three years of experience with UX and design tools including Figma and Miro.
Three years of experience with production support and debugging tools including Vim, Splunk, MobaXTerm, and Baretail.

Responsibilities

Build scalable, performant, distributed financial desktop and web applications that display real-time data, fixed-income bond calculations, and key metrics.
Use fixed-income and equity trading domain strategies, including FIX protocol, to build order and execution workflows.
Develop client-facing fixed-income trading applications using React, TypeScript, HTML, SCSS, Redux, Jotai, GraphQL, Java, and AMPs, and build and maintain RESTful and streaming APIs.
Build pure React components for internal component libraries.
Partner with product management to define functional and non-functional requirements, design product roadmaps around client commitment deadlines, and develop release timelines and post-release checkout and deployment steps.
Translate Figma wireframes into working fixed-income workflows consistent with the look and feel of similar financial applications.
Collaborate with quality assurance teams on automated, manual, and development testing workflows, including unit, component, and integration tests using Cypress and Cucumber.
Deploy production code to live client environments.
Provide operational support by resolving client issues, participating in client calls, and using or building Grafana dashboards for telemetry monitoring.
Mentor junior engineers technically and professionally, including allocating project work and providing career guidance.
Organize Agile and SDLC meetings, including weekly sprint planning, retrospectives, ticket grooming, and project scoping.