Application Engineer, Associate

$132,500 - $157,500/Yr

BlackRock - New York, NY

posted about 1 month ago

Full-time - Mid Level
Remote - New York, NY
Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles

About the position

The Associate, Application Engineer role at Aladdin Wealth Tech involves joining a product engineering team focused on developing and supporting portfolio optimization capabilities for wealth management. The position emphasizes collaboration with various teams to enhance the optimization offering and requires expertise in software engineering, particularly in Java and Kotlin. The role is integral to improving the scalability and performance of the Aladdin Wealth platform, which serves clients globally.

Responsibilities

  • Deliver high scale tax-aware portfolio optimization capabilities as interactive APIs and software libraries in Java and Kotlin
  • Partner with Product Management, Research, and Client teams to improve the optimization offering
  • Review code from peers and provide feedback to ensure code quality, best practices, and knowledge sharing
  • Participate in technical design reviews for API and services architecture with peers and stakeholders
  • Translate latest market practices, guidelines, and regulations into algorithms to scale optimization offerings
  • Continually improve the scalability, reliability, and performance of portfolio optimization capabilities and operational processes

Requirements

  • 3+ years of professional experience in a software engineering role in a commercial capacity
  • Experience working on Java, Kotlin or other JVM-based programming languages
  • Experience developing high-quality software and code analysis tools
  • Experience working with Git, CI/CD, Scrum workflow, and SDLC process
  • Experience working in a Linux/Unix environment
  • BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience

Nice-to-haves

  • Experience working on complex data models and applied mathematics
  • Experience with JVM performance benchmarking and analysis
  • Experience on relational and non-relational databases in enterprise scale
  • Familiar with portfolio analysis and financial risk management
  • Familiar with optimization concepts and software libraries
  • Excellent communicator, both written and verbal

Benefits

  • Strong retirement plan
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Comprehensive healthcare
  • Support for working parents
  • Flexible Time Off (FTO)
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