Associate, Software Engineer - SMA Solutions

BlackRock•Chicago, IL

3d•$120,000 - $148,000•Hybrid

About The Position

At BlackRock SMA Solutions, our strategies are designed to put our clients’ and their clients’ interests at the center of our investment advice; to minimize costs and taxes; and to incorporate each client’s unique values-aligned preferences into their investment portfolio. We are a purposefully growing quantitative, multi-asset investment management business specializing in managing customized portfolios tax efficiently. Technology is central to the success of the SMA business: on a daily basis our technology platform loads portfolio data; we raise and execute orders on our clients’ behalf; we gather security, index, and other essential reference data; we produce rich analytics to highlight risks; and we enable a strong investment research capability. We are looking for talented and passionate engineers who like to innovate and seek complex problems. We recognize that strength comes from teams with a variety of perspectives, and will embrace your unique skills, curiosity, drive, and passion while giving you the opportunity to grow technically and as an individual. We are committed to open source and we regularly give our work back to the community. Engineers looking to work in the areas of orchestration, data modeling, data pipelines, APIs, storage, distribution, distributed computation, consumption and infrastructure are ideal candidates. We are expanding our team of engineers that owns and operates this extensive technology platform. As a member of this team, you will build, enhance, and support a wide variety of micro-services that enable financial portfolio construction, data integrations to connect diverse systems, and real-time operational workflows. You will work with your team and your stakeholders to ensure that platform capabilities address business needs in a complete and timely manner, with validated quality.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, STEM or similar technical field, OR equivalent practical experience
2-5 years of professional software development experience
Strong Python experience
Experience building and supporting production applications, services or APIs
Strong SQL / relational database experience (MySQL preferred)
Hands on cloud experience (AWS, Azure or GCP, AWS strongly preferred)
Docker/Containers Experience (experience building, packaging and deploying containerized applications)
Experience with standard softare development practices (Git/Source Control, CI/CD, Testing, Debugging/troubleshooting)

Nice To Haves

AWS Development (Lambda, ECS/EKS, SQS/SNS, API Gateway, RDS, CloudFormation or Terraform)
Experience building cloud-native or serverless applications
Experience developing APIs and backend services
Experience with Pandas and NumPy
Experience with data-heavy applications or data processing pipelines
Experience with Kubernetes
Experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform or CloudFormation
Experience with distributed or event-driven systems
Experience with application monitoring / observability
Financial/fintech experience, particularly experience with Options, Derivatives, Equities, Bonds, Fixed Income, Capital Markets, Portfolio Management or Trading Workflows

Responsibilities

Build, enhance, and support a wide variety of micro-services that enable financial portfolio construction, data integrations to connect diverse systems, and real-time operational workflows.
Work with your team and your stakeholders to ensure that platform capabilities address business needs in a complete and timely manner, with validated quality.