1 day ago
Edinburgh, United KingdomEntry Level
Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain, and document internal TypeScript services.
- Strengthen existing code and implement features such as data feeds, scheduled jobs, and dashboards.
- Design and implement REST API endpoints, write tests, deploy releases, and fix bugs.
- Work with Prisma ORM, Postgres, Fastify, React, and other technologies across varied projects.
- Contribute to process automation, reporting, disaster simulation, and agentic AI initiatives.
- Partner with stakeholders and local non-technical colleagues while learning the business resilience domain.
- Organize daily work, take initiative on problems, and communicate proactively.
- Potentially contribute to the company-wide Salesforce resilience planning tool.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- Excellent, current TypeScript skills and experience developing server-side or desktop applications with TypeScript.
- Some experience developing REST API endpoints.
- Some web development experience and understanding of basic web technologies.
- Some experience with relational databases using raw SQL or an ORM.
- Experience using Git in a collaborative team environment.
- Comfort with command-line tools.
- Strong problem-solving, critical-thinking, and evidence-evaluation skills.
- Ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams.
- Preferred experience developing agentic or prompt-chained AI applications.
- Preferred experience with React or strong web development skills and the ability to learn new frameworks quickly.
- Nice-to-have experience in business resilience, Salesforce development or administration, strategy games, gamification, or activities demonstrating a hacker mindset.
Benefits
- Retirement investment benefits and financial-planning tools.
- Education reimbursement.
- Resources supporting physical health and emotional well-being.
- Family support programs.
- Flexible Time Off.
- Hybrid work model requiring at least four days in the Edinburgh office and allowing one day working from home.
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About BlackRock
BlackRock is a public, New York–based global asset manager and technology provider founded in 1988. It offers investment products—including the iShares ETF franchise—and portfolio and risk management software via the Aladdin platform to institutions, financial advisors, and individual investors, earning primarily management and technology fees. Its shares trade on the NYSE, and the firm serves clients in major markets worldwide.