Senior Backend Java Engineer, Aladdin Engineering - Trading, VP

** About this role*
* 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 Black Rock, 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 $12 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 Black Rock 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 Black Rock's investment operating system called Aladdin. Aladdin is used both internally within Black Rock and externally by many financial institutions. 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. We perform risk calculations and process millions of transactions for thousands of users every day worldwide!

** Being a member of Aladdin Engineering, you will be:*
* ** Tenacious:
** Work in a fast paced and highly complex environment

** Creative thinker:
** Analyze multiple solutions and deploy technologies in a flexible way.

** Great teammate:
** Think and work collaboratively and communicate effectively.

** Fast learner:
** Pick up new concepts and apply them quickly.

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* Responsibilities include:

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* + Lead individual projects priorities, deadlines and deliverables using AGILE methodologies.

+ Deliver high throughput, scalable, highly available, concurrent and fault tolerant software systems.

+ Collaborate with team members in a multi-office, multi-country environment.

+ Deliver high efficiency, high availability, concurrent and fault tolerant software systems.

+ Significantly contribute to development of Aladdin's global, multi-asset trading platform.

+ Work with product management and business users to define the roadmap for the product.

+ Design and develop innovative solutions to complex problems, identifying issues and roadblocks.

+ Apply validated quality software engineering practices through all phases of development.

+ Ensure resilience and stability through quality code reviews, unit, regression and user acceptance testing, dev ops and level two production support.

+ Be a leader with vision and a partner in brainstorming solutions for team productivity, efficiency, guiding and motivating others.

+ Drive a strong culture by bringing principles of inclusion and diversity to the team and setting the tone through specific recruiting, management actions and employee engagement.

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* Qualifications:

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* + B.S. / M.S. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject area

+ 7+ years of proven experience

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* Skills and Experience:

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* + A proven foundation in core Java and related technologies, with OO skills and design patterns

+ Track record building high quality software with design-focused and test-driven approaches

+ Hands-on experience in Java/ Spring Framework/Sprint Boot/Hibernate

+ In depth understanding of concurrent programming and experience in designing high throughput, high availability, fault tolerant distributed applications.

+ Extensive experiencing building micro services architecture / SOA is required.

+ Experience in message oriented streaming middleware architecture is required (Kafka, MQ, AMPS, NATS, etc)

+ Understanding of relational databases is a must.

+ Demonstrable experience building modern software using engineering tools such as git, maven, unit testing and integration testing tools, mocking frameworks.

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Experience with Agentic coding and general understanding of how LLMs are working

+ Strong analytical and software architecture design skills with an emphasis on test driven development

+ Great analytical, problem-solving and communication skills

+ Some experience or a real interest in finance, investment processes, and/or an ability to translate business problems into technical solutions.

+ Experience leading development teams,…