Associate, Application Engineer III

BlackRock•San Francisco, CA

23h•$165,131 - $170,000•Hybrid

About The Position

BlackRock Financial Management, Inc. is hiring an Associate, Application Engineer III to build and maintain scalable financial desktop and web applications for fixed income trading. The applications support real-time data updates, fixed income bond calculations, key metrics, and order and execution workflows. The role develops client-facing applications using React, TypeScript, HTML, SCSS, Redux, Jotai, GraphQL, Java, and AMPs, as well as backend RESTful and streaming APIs. The engineer partners with product management on requirements, roadmaps, client deadlines, release timelines, and deployment steps; translates Figma wireframes into working trading workflows; and collaborates with quality assurance teams on automated, manual, and development testing. The position also deploys production code to client environments, provides operational and client support, monitors telemetry, mentors junior engineers, and organizes Agile and SDLC meetings. The position is based at 400 Howard St, San Francisco, California, and follows BlackRock’s hybrid work model: employees are currently required to work in the office at least four days per week, with the flexibility to work from home one day per week. Some business groups may require more office time.

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 and knowledge of 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 performant, scalable, distributed financial desktop and web applications that display real-time updates, bond calculations, and key metrics.
Use fixed income and equity trading 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.
Build and maintain backend RESTful and streaming APIs.
Create pure React components for internal component libraries.
Partner with product management to determine functional and non-functional requirements, plan product roadmaps around client commitments, and establish 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, allocate project work, and provide career guidance.
Organize Agile and SDLC meetings, including weekly sprint planning, retrospectives, ticket grooming, and project scoping.