Developer Job Listing at BlackRock in New York, NY

Financial Services

Title: Developer
Location: New York, NY

BlackRock is one of the world’s preeminent asset management firms and a premier provider of global investment management, risk management and advisory services to institutional, intermediary and individual investors around the world. BlackRock offers a range of solutions — from rigorous fundamental and quantitative active management approaches aimed at maximizing outperformance to highly efficient indexing strategies designed to gain broad exposure to the world’s capital markets. Our clients can access our investment solutions through a variety of product structures, including individual and institutional separate accounts, mutual funds and other pooled investment vehicles, and the industry-leading iShares® ETFs.

The Aladdin Product Group develops and supports every facet of BlackRock’s information systems needs. Our global teams perform a wide variety of activities from maintaining system stability to growing the features and functionality of our state-of the-art trading and asset management platform, Aladdin. The breath of our responsibilities calls for a diverse range of expertise.

Team Overview:

The Portfolio Management Tools team develops industry leading portfolio management applications used by BlackRock and external clients. With support for multiple asset classes and a variety of investment processes, it is a rare opportunity to learn about the portfolio management process and building very scalable applications. The team is fast paced and globally distributed.

Role Responsibility: As a Java developer, responsibilities will include but shall not be limited to the following:

Implement new business functionality on the Aladdin system to meet business requirements
Working closely with senior members of the team, end users and client support teams to provide support and better understand user requests
Partner with end-users and client services staff in the rollout of the new business functionality
Provide ongoing support and development maintenance of existing application functionality.
Develop an increasing understanding of technologies and architectures, including enterprise architecture, design and implementation, software design and deployment best practices
Ensuring focus on quality and delivering results
Assist team leads with developing project estimates and plans
Communicate technology decisions, issues and risks to senior team members and clients
Experience:

Bachelors or MS degree in Computer Science or Mathematics.
Strong programming skills in Java.
4 years of experience with large scale software development and deployment
3 years of experience with Java
Knowledge of multithreaded java development
Knowledge of Spring, JDBC & SQL
Strong foundation in Object-Oriented Analysis and Design as well as Design Patterns
Experience developing scalable server is a plus
Experience in the finance industry or knowledge of financial products is a plus
Experience working with, designing and building scalable real time systems is very helpful


BlackRock is proud to be an E-Verify & Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer—M/F/D/V.
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