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Responsibilities
- Partner with business users and stakeholders to define functional and non-functional requirements, document assumptions, and clarify open questions.
- Translate complex business and technical requirements into sequenced delivery tasks and identify dependencies.
- Architect, design, develop, test, and support Java-based applications.
- Communicate requirements, design options, decisions, and rationale clearly.
- Contribute to technical design and code reviews.
- Improve application reliability, observability, and performance.
- Support production releases and drive production issues through resolution.
- Champion software development lifecycle process improvements that increase quality, reliability, or delivery efficiency.
Requirements
- 8+ years of development experience, ideally in financial services, with Java as the primary programming language.
- Experience designing and building performant applications handling large volumes, concurrency, and/or latency-sensitive workloads.
- Experience with Spring, Spring Boot, REST APIs, microservice architecture, event-driven systems, and middleware.
- Experience with relational and cloud-based data platforms.
- Experience with DevOps tooling, CI/CD, automation, distributed event streaming, and messaging platforms.
- Strong analytical ability, attention to detail, ownership, communication, and teamwork.
- Experience supporting production systems and driving issues through resolution.
- Knowledge of AI for code generation and building AI agents is desirable.
- Experience with enterprise-grade container orchestration, declarative infrastructure, horizontal scaling, observability, monitoring, and distributed tracing is desirable.
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 4 days in the office per week, with flexibility to work from home 1 day per week; some business groups may require more office time.
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.