Front End Engineer (React/Typescript) - Aladdin Engineering

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 discussions from a frontend, state-management, or component-design lens; excited to contribute to high-level architectural discussions across backend and frontend
• Passionate about creating modern web applications that are streamlined, efficient, and a delight to use

Qualifications/Skills and Experience: 

• B.S. or any other relevant engineering degree.
• 4+ years of experience working as a front-end engineer on production code, creating and deploying web apps in React (ideally external, customer-facing applications) and Typescript, CSS / SCSS, HTML
• Experience using state management tools like Redux, RxJs, Zustand, and/or Jotai to orchestrate complex state workflows and asynchronous APIs
• Comfortable using all standard React hooks and creating custom hooks for different usecases
• Experience writing integration and unit tests with tools like Cypress, Jest, Cucumber
• Experience with API design and/or development, ideally with REST or through GraphQL
• A proven foundation in core front-end languages (React/Typescript preferred) but with a solid background in object-oriented programming, software engineering design patterns, and test-driven development
• Experience with Git and code collaboration tools
• Great analytical, problem-solving and communication skills to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience providing production support and using logging/monitoring tools like Grafana, Splunk 
• Some experience or a real interest in finance, investment processes, and/or an ability to translate business problems into technical solutions.

 
Nice to have and opportunities to learn:

• Knowledge of and exposure to working with backend languages like Java, Spring and the open-source technology stack (Spring, Hibernate, Maven, JUnit, etc.). 
• Exposure to or interest in streaming technologies like Web Sockets, AMPs, etc.
• Experience working in an Agile development team or on open-source development projects. Familiarity with dev ops tools like AzureDevOps a plus. 
• Experience building out reusable React components or styling libraries
• Familiarity with UX design tools like Figma


For San Francisco, CA Only the salary range for this position is USD$132,500.00 - USD$162,000.00 . Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, and benefits including healthcare, leave benefits, and retirement benefits. BlackRock operates a pay-for-performance compensation philosophy and your total compensation may vary based on role, location, and firm, department and individual performance.


Our benefits

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.

Our hybrid work model

BlackRock’s hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees, while supporting flexibility for all. Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities. We remain focused on increasing the impactful moments that arise when we work together in person – aligned with our commitment to performance and innovation. As a new joiner, you can count on this hybrid model to accelerate your learning and onboarding experience here at BlackRock.

About BlackRock

At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being.  Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children’s educations, buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.

This mission would not be possible without our smartest investment – the one we make in our employees. It’s why we’re dedicated to creating an environment where our colleagues feel welcomed, valued and supported with networks, benefits and development opportunities to help them thrive.

For additional information on BlackRock, please visit @blackrock | Twitter: @blackrock | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/blackrock

BlackRock is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to all applicants and existing employees, and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity/expression), sexual orientation, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability, marital status, political affiliation, religion, citizenship status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. View the EEOC’s Know Your Rights poster and its supplement and the pay transparency statement.

 

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