Associate, Software Engineer, Applications

BlackRock•San Francisco, CA

7d•$161,637 - $162,000•Hybrid

About The Position

This role involves analyzing the end-to-end client and investment management lifecycle to design scalable and effective technology solutions. The Associate, Software Engineer will evaluate and incorporate domain-specific processes to mitigate counterparty exposure and ensure system accuracy, resiliency, and alignment with business requirements. The position supports all phases of the software development lifecycle, from requirements gathering to production support, and involves developing comprehensive technical design documents. The role requires leveraging and learning in-house technologies to build, scale, and optimize enterprise-grade applications within the investment and post-trade ecosystem.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field and three (3) years of experience as a Software Developer or in a closely related role.
Three (3) years of experience with: Strong proficiency Object-oriented programming in Java, multithreading, concurrency , Spring Framework (Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Data JPA), spring security and OAuth2
Hands on experience in databases such as MySQL, Oracle, JDBC, and Hibernate for data persistence
Designing, developing and maintaining RESTful APIs and microservices within distributed backend architecture
Unit testing frameworks including JUnit and Mockito
Working with UNIX and Linux environments
Agile methodologies (Scrum), with experience working in Agile teams and contributing to continuous delivery processes.
Two (2) years of experience with: UI technologies such as HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript, and frameworks like Angular and React for developing user interfaces in web applications.

Nice To Haves

Experience with even-driven architectures, messaging system or integration tools such as Kafka, MQ, or Cloud native steaming platforms
hands on experience with CI/CD pipelines, build tools (Maven/Gradle) and version control system like Git
understanding of microservice design patterns, service discovery, load balancing and distributed tracing
exposure to cloud computing platforms(Azure), containerization (Docker), and orchestration(Kubernetes)
understanding of microservice design patterns, service discovery, load balancing, API gateways, and distributed tracing
Knowledge of performance tuning and debugging techniques for distributed, high throughput systems
Experience developing scalable, fault tolerant, and enterprise grade backend services
Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK stack)

Responsibilities

Analyze the end-to-end client and investment management lifecycle—including client contracting and onboarding, portfolio management, trading, compliance, trade settlement, operational workflows, and reporting platforms—to design scalable and effective technology solutions.
Evaluate and incorporate domain-specific processes such as SecLending workflows, derivatives processing, and collateral management operations to mitigate the counterparty exposure and to ensure system accuracy, resiliency, and alignment with business requirements.
Support all phases of the software development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, application design, system development, testing, implementation, and production support.
Develop comprehensive technical design documents detailing the proposed solution architecture, business logic, and upstream/downstream system dependencies.
Leverage and continuously learn in house technologies and frameworks to build, scale, and optimize enterprise-grade applications across the investment and post trade ecosystem.