Vice President, Application Engineer

About this role

Company: BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.

Job Title: Vice President, Application Engineer

Location: 50 Hudson Yards, New York, NY 10001

Job Duties: Contribute to the development of Aladdin’s global, multi-asset trading platform. Deliver high throughput, high availability, concurrent, and fault tolerant software systems. Assist in building various capabilities of the Order & Execution Management System (OEMS), including real-time market data pipelines, algorithmic trading, trade analytics, pre- and post-trade TCA, watch lists, smart order routing, and integrated news and Twitter feeds. Oversee large-scale deployments and rollouts with an emphasis on risk-mitigation. Identify issues and roadblocks. Design, develop, code, test, release, and maintain BlackRock proprietary software and AI products. Code, test, release, and maintain databases and related tools such as Cassandra, Solr, Snowflake, and Kafka. Code, test, release, and maintain AI tools and technologies that use Langchain, BERT models, FAISS, GPT, BGE, DistillBert, HuggingFace, OpenAI, and pytorch. Build, test, deploy, and maintain automation pipelines for software release across BlackRock clients using Azure Cloud Platform. Work with senior software engineers to build, maintain, test, and document APIs and related backend server infrastructure and databases for real time applications. Train software engineers, and conduct learning sessions and seminars as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Frontend and AI application development. Telecommuting is permitted up to 100% of the time.

Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, or a related field and four (4) years of experience as an Associate, Software Engineer, Trading Systems; Analyst; or a related role. Four (4) years of experience working with: Spring Boot; Hibernate; JUnit; Building APIs including REST, gRPC, WebSockets, and AMPS; API documentation tools including OpenAPI, Swagger, and Postman; API optimization and security; Modern web application development using JavaScript, Typescript, HTML5, CSS3, SaaS, React, and Angular; Modern web application development using StencilJS, Cypress, Jest, WebComponents, Single-spa, and Python Streamlit; Modern web application development using Micro-frontend architecture, Webpack, and Module Federation; and Using software code versioning tools including GIT. Three (3) years of experience working with: Desktop application development using Node.js, ElectronJs, Java Swing, Microsoft Edge WebView, and C#; Desktop application development using Windows Named Pipes, Windows Credential Manager, Microsoft Authenticator, Microsoft Active Directory, and Office 365 tools; Data visualization tools including Tableau, Microsoft PowerBI, Highcharts, D3.js, and Ag Grid; Python; Jupiter; Anaconda; Flask framework; Java 8 and Java 11; Using Shell environments including Zsh, Git bash, and Bash; Azure DevOps; AzureML; Promptflow; Grafana; Prometheus; Influx database; and Hadoop. One (1) year of experience working with: AI frameworks including LangChain, Semantic Kernel, Hugging Face, OpenAI, and PyTorch; AI models including GPT-4, DALL-E, BERT, BG Embeddings, and DistilBERT; Vector Databases including FAISS and Solr; and Java 17.

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For New York, NY Only the salary range for this position is USD$152,400.00 - USD$186,500.00 . Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, and benefits including heath care, 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 and Affirmative Action Employer.  We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, and other statuses protected by law.

BlackRock will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in a manner consistent with the requirements of the law, including any applicable fair chance law.