Senior Full Stack Engineer - Aladdin Trader, VP

About this role About BlackRock: Are you interested in building innovative technology that crafts the financial markets? Do you like working at the speed of a startup, and solving some of the world’s most exciting challenges? Do you want to work with, and learn from, hands-on leaders in technology and finance? At BlackRock, we are looking for software engineers who like to innovate and solve sophisticated problems. We recognize that strength comes from diversity, and will embrace your outstanding skills, curiosity, and passion while giving you the opportunity to grow technically and as an individual. We invest and protect over $11 trillion (USD) of assets and have an extraordinary responsibility to our clients all over the world. Our technology empowers millions of investors to save for retirement, pay for college, buy a home, and improve their financial well-being. Being a technologist at BlackRock means you get the best of both worlds: working for one of the most sophisticated financial companies and being part of a software development team responsible for next generation technology and solutions. What are Aladdin and Aladdin Engineering? You will be working on BlackRock's investment tooling, operations, and application system called Aladdin. Aladdin combines sophisticated risk analytics with comprehensive portfolio management, trading, and operations tools on a single platform to power informed decision-making and create a connective tissue for thousands of users investing worldwide. Our development teams reside inside the Aladdin Engineering group. We collaboratively build the next generation of technology that changes the way information, people, and technology intersect for global investment firms. We build and package tools that manage trillions in assets and supports millions of financial instruments. Responsibilities include: Collaborate with product management, quality assurance, and business users to design new features for existing and new React web-based investment/trading applications; develop high-quality, efficient, and fault-tolerant code; and validate releases via code reviews, detailed testing, dev ops, and level two production support Work with other frontend engineers to collaborate on common React components and utilities, build new features across multiple different apps, design and integrate APIs for multiple use-cases, contribute to a shared integration and testing suite, and design a thoughtful and efficient state management flow across the platform Work with backend engineers to design data contracts and APIs, integrate with existing and new data schemas, collaborate on testing and production support, and build out new features together Work closely with product team to learn about trading/investment workflows, estimate scope of work, perform demos, communicate technical blockers and challenges to non-technical audiences, and translate high-level vision into functional and non-functional requirements Work closely with quality assurance team to design overall testing strategy, perform joint testing when required, contribute to automated testing suite, and validate releases before deployment Work closely with users, other engineers, and SREs to provide level two production support, utilizing monitoring and logging tools to identify issues and quickly provide fixes Must be comfortable collaborating with team members in a multi-office, multi-country environment, while also being in office 4 days a week An Ideal Candidate Would Be: Excited both about working collaboratively on multiple large-scale, related trading and investment tools, as well as owning independent feature design and delivery Able to take ownership over delivery, deployment, release, and support with assistance from the rest of the team Capable of communicating vision, blockers, progress, and estimates to both technical and non-technical audiences Able to bring solid software engineering principles to design discussion ... (truncated, view full listing at source)