Associate

BlackRock•Atlanta, GA

10d•$135,000 - $148,000•Hybrid

About The Position

This role involves contributing to the development of Aladdin’s global, multi-asset trading platform within a collaborative, multi-office, and multi-country environment. The Associate will be responsible for architecting and driving the development of new platform features, setting technical direction, and identifying and resolving technical issues. The position requires applying software engineering best practices, ensuring system resilience through testing, and providing production support. The role also includes owning small-scale projects, collaborating with business stakeholders, and developing technical documentation.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or related subject area, and 48 months of experience in job offered, or closely related role.
Four years of experience in Python and related technologies with Object Oriented skills and design patterns.
Experience working with Python core libraries and concepts.
Concurrent programming and designing high throughput, high availability, fault tolerant distributed applications.
Building modern software using git, unit testing, integration testing, and mocking frameworks.
Analytical and software architecture design skills, including test driven development.
Building distributed applications using SQL or NOSQL technologies, including MS SQL, Sybase, Cassandra, or Redis.
Algorithms, Optimization, or related quantitative processes.
Relational databases.
Financial or Investment Industry experience.
Two years of experience in Message brokers.
Two years of experience using high scale distributed technology including Kafka, Mongo, Ignite or Redis.
Two years of experience building microservices and APIs using REST, Kafka, or gRPC.
Two years of experience in Artificial Intelligence.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with team members in a multi-office, multi-country environment.
Contribute to development of Aladdin’s global, multi-asset trading platform.
Architect and drive development of new platform features, set technical direction.
Identify issues and roadblocks and escalate to senior engineers.
Proactively resolve technical issues, remove blockers for the team, and optimize processes.
Apply validated quality software engineering practices (unit tests, code reviews).
Ensure resilience and stability through regression and user acceptance testing.
Oversee testing strategy, drive automation and performance testing.
Provide level two production support.
Own production support, incident management, and post-mortem analysis.
Individual contributor to features on a project assigned by managers.
Document code and processes.
Individually own and drive small scale projects, collaborating with business stakeholders at both design and coding levels, and presenting results to leadership.
Develop and maintain technical documentation, onboarding materials, and training resources.