Vice President, Application Engineer
BlackRock · Posted Oct 1
Investment management, asset management, risk analytics, and wealth services
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About the role
BlackRock’s Post Trade Accounting (PTA) team within Aladdin builds the systems that ensure accurate, scalable, and efficient accounting across global operations, and is expanding into data analytics and pipeline initiatives using Snowflake, Redis, and distributed event streaming and messaging platforms. This VP, Java Back-End Engineer role will design and deliver enterprise-scale back-end systems, lead design and architecture discussions, and mentor engineers while working closely with Product, Operations, and Engineering. The role focuses on Java 11+, Spring Boot, microservices, event-driven systems, and large-scale financial data integration.
What you will do
- Design and develop robust, high-performance back-end systems using Java 11+ and the Spring Boot ecosystem.
- Lead design discussions, code reviews, and architecture sessions with a hands-on approach.
- Build and maintain microservices and event-driven systems to process and distribute large-scale financial data.
- Develop data integration and pipeline components that connect systems across Snowflake, SQL Server, and real-time streaming platforms.
- Implement and optimize Redis-based caching and data stores for low-latency access patterns.
- Champion best practices for code quality, testing, automation, and performance tuning.
- Mentor engineers to elevate technical craftsmanship, problem-solving, and design thinking.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure technical solutions align with product goals and business outcomes.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- B.S./M.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.
- 8+ years of professional experience in Java and object-oriented design.
- Strong knowledge of Spring Boot, REST APIs, and enterprise integration patterns.
- Deep expertise in SQL Server, including stored procedures, performance tuning, and data modeling.
- Experience with Redis for caching or data persistence.
- Hands-on exposure to distributed event streaming and messaging platforms or similar publish-subscribe systems for real-time event processing.
- Familiarity with Snowflake and data pipeline concepts (ETL, batch vs. streaming).
- Experience with Agentic coding and general understanding of how LLMs are working
- Strong focus on clean architecture, maintainability, and production readiness.
- Excellent communication and leadership skills — able to guide teams and influence design direction.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with Enterprise-grade container orchestration platform supporting declarative infrastructure and horizontal scaling, Open Container Initiative (OCI) container image packaging and runtime, or cloud-native environments (AWS/GCP).
- Exposure to observability tools (metrics collection, Grafana, Open Telemetry).
- Scripting experience in Python for automation or data analysis.
- Exposure to Prompt Engineering and Agentic AI
- Interest in financial systems, accounting, or investment technology.
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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