Front End Engineering Manager, Software Engineering – AWT, Vice President
BlackRock · Posted Oct 23
Investment management, asset management, risk analytics, and wealth services
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About the role
BlackRock’s Aladdin Wealth Tech (AWT) organization develops technology serving financial advisors and investors, bringing together products including Advisor Center, Aladdin Risk for Wealth, and the Separately Managed Account business. The Engineering Manager role in Mumbai combines hands-on software engineering with technical and people leadership, leading engineers delivering front-end and full-stack capabilities. The role involves providing technical direction across design, development, testing, troubleshooting, and ongoing enhancement of enterprise systems.
What you will do
- Lead and mentor a team of software engineers delivering front-end and full-stack capabilities, fostering strong engineering practices, learning, and growth.
- Partner with product, design, and quality assurance stakeholders to plan the roadmap, manage delivery, and align engineering priorities with product milestones.
- Provide hands-on engineering leadership across front-end and back-end development, including design, coding, testing, support, troubleshooting, and solutioning.
- Serve as a technical subject-matter expert, translating business requirements into solutions and adopting appropriate languages and frameworks as needed.
- Drive engineering quality through code reviews, timely feedback, continuous testing, debugging, performance optimization, and consistent application of development standards and processes.
- Lead effectively in a globally distributed environment, balancing engineering delivery with sound decision-making, organization, stakeholder management, and communication.
- Stay current with relevant engineering practices and emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), and apply them appropriately to improve product quality, reliability, and innovation.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent experience, together with substantial professional software-development experience (10+ years).
- Strong front-end engineering experience building client-facing applications using React or Angular, complemented by full-stack development capabilities.
- Proficiency/Familiarity in Java and related frameworks such as Spring Boot and Hibernate, with strong knowledge of object-oriented development, algorithms, data structures, and software design patterns.
- Experience with modern software-engineering practices, including Git, Maven, unit and integration testing, mocking frameworks, code review, security, stability, and software-quality practices.
- Experience leading engineers and collaborating with product, design, quality assurance, and other stakeholders in a globally distributed environment, supported by strong communication, presentation, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills.
- Experience with cloud services and technologies such as Open Container Initiative (OCI) container image packaging and runtime, enterprise-grade container orchestration platforms supporting declarative infrastructure and horizontal scaling, distributed event streaming and messaging platforms, and API gateway technologies is beneficial.
- Financial-domain experience is also advantageous.
Benefits and support
- strong retirement plan
- tuition reimbursement
- comprehensive healthcare
- support for working parents
- Flexible Time Off (FTO)
About BlackRock
BlackRock, Inc. is an American multinational investment management corporation and the world's largest asset manager. The firm provides institutional and individual clients with a broad range of investment, advisory, and risk management products, including its proprietary Aladdin financial technology platform. Headquartered in New York City, BlackRock manages trillions in assets across global equity, fixed income, alternative investments, and iShares exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
- Industry
- Investment Management
- Company size
- 24900 employees
- Founded
- 1988-03-09
- Location
- New York, New York, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
President and Director
Chief Financial Officer and Global Head of Corporate Strategy
Chief Operating Officer
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