BlackRock

Associate, Software Engineer - SMA Solutions

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2 months ago
Chicago, IL, USAMid Level / Senior
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$120k - $148k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build, enhance, and support production microservices for financial portfolio construction and real-time operational workflows.
  • Develop data integrations connecting diverse systems and support portfolio data, security data, index data, and reference data workflows.
  • Build and maintain backend services, APIs, data pipelines, orchestration, storage, distribution, and distributed computation capabilities.
  • Work with teammates and stakeholders to deliver complete, timely, and validated platform capabilities that address business needs.
  • Package, deploy, monitor, and troubleshoot production applications and containerized services.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, STEM, or a similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 2–5 years of professional software development experience.
  • Strong experience with Python and SQL, preferably with MySQL or other relational databases.
  • Experience building and supporting production applications, services, or APIs.
  • Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP, with AWS strongly preferred.
  • Experience building, packaging, and deploying containerized applications with Docker.
  • Experience with source control, testing, debugging, and troubleshooting.
  • Preferred qualifications include AWS Lambda, ECS/EKS, SQS/SNS, API Gateway, RDS, CloudFormation, Terraform, cloud-native or serverless applications, Pandas, NumPy, Kubernetes, distributed or event-driven systems, and application monitoring or observability.
  • Financial or fintech experience involving options, derivatives, equities, bonds, fixed income, capital markets, portfolio management, or trading workflows is preferred.

Benefits

  • Annual discretionary bonus eligibility and healthcare, leave, and retirement benefits; compensation figures excluded.
  • Benefits include a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents, and Flexible Time Off.
  • Hybrid work model requiring at least four days per week in the office and allowing one day per week working from home.
  • BlackRock provides development opportunities, networks, reasonable accommodations, and an inclusive equal-opportunity workplace.

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About BlackRock

10,000+ employees

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.

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