Associate, Application Engineer III

About this role

Company: BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.

Job Title: Associate, Application Engineer III

Location: 400 Howard St San Francisco, CA 94105

Job Duties: Build scalable financial desktop applications and web applications that are performant, scalable, and distributed, capable of displaying real-time data updates, fixed income bond calculations, and key metrics. Utilize fixed income and equity trading domain strategies, including FIX protocol) to build order and execution workflows. Develop client-facing financial applications for fixed income trading using React, Typescript, HTML, SCSS, Redux, and Jotai for front-end components and GraphQL, Java, and AMPs together to build and maintain backend RESTful and streaming APIs. Build pure React components for use in internal component libraries. Partner closely with product management to determine functional and non-functional requirements, design product roadmaps with specific client commitment deadlines, and develop release timelines and post-release checkout and deployment steps. Translate wireframes from Figma into working fixed income workflows that match the look and feel of other similar financial applications. Collaborate with quality assurance teams to design automated, manual, and dev testing workflows, including building suite of unit tests, component tests, and integration tests using Cypress and Cucumber. Deploy production code to live client environments. Provide operational support including solving client issues, participating in client calls, and using/building Grafana dashboards for telemetry monitoring. Mentor junior engineers from a technical and professional perspective, including allocating project work and providing career mentorship and guidance. Organize meetings according to the Agile methodology and SDLC, including weekly sprint planning meetings, retrospectives, ticket grooming, and project scoping.

Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science or a related field and three (3) years of experience as an Associate, Analyst or a related role. Must have three (3) years of experience with: React and Typescript; State management frameworks including Redux and Jotai; HTML, CSS and Sass; Git, AquaDataStudio, ADO, and Agile methodologies; Java 17, SQL, and GraphQL; Data streaming tools including RESTful APIs, WebSockets, Faraday, and AMPs; Frontend testing frameworks including Cypress and Cucumber; Financial products and tools icluding FIX messaging and protocol, TradeWeb, and MarketAxess; Knowledge of US, EMEA, and APAC bond trading markets for corporate, treasury, and MUNI bonds, including anonymous trading, straight-through processing ("click to trade" workflows), and portfolio trading; CI / CD pipelining and deployment tools including SonarQube, Jenkins, JFrog Artifactory, and Grafana; UX and design tools including Figma and Miro; and Production support and debugging tools including Vim, Splunk, MobaXTerm, and Baretail.

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For San Francisco, CA Only the salary range for this position is USD$165,131.00 - USD$170,000.00 . Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, and benefits including healthcare, 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.

Guidance on AI use for candidates

At BlackRock, AI has long been part of how we work – enhancing decision-making, improving operations, and helping us deliver better outcomes for clients. We encourage candidates to use AI thoughtfully to learn, prepare, and work more effectively; but during our interview process, we want to focus on getting to know you through your own experiences, thinking, and judgment. To support you, we’ve provided guidance on when and how to use AI during our hiring process so you can approach each step with confidence and showcase your best self.

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.

To learn more about BlackRock, please visit Careers.BlackRock.com. We also encourage you to get to know us on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, X, and TikTok.

BlackRock is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to all applicants and existing employees, and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity/expression), sexual orientation, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability, marital status, political affiliation, religion, citizenship status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. View the EEOC’s Know Your Rights poster and its supplement and the pay transparency statement.

BlackRock is committed to full inclusion of all qualified individuals and to providing reasonable accommodations or job modifications for individuals with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation/adjustments are needed throughout the employment process, please email Disability.Assistance@blackrock.com. All requests are treated in line with our privacy policy.

We recruit, hire, train, promote, pay, and administer all personnel actions without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), sex stereotyping (including assumptions about a person’s appearance or behavior, gender roles, gender expression, or gender identity), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, mental or physical disability, ancestry, medical condition, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law. We interpret these protected statuses broadly to include both the actual status and also any perceptions and assumptions made regarding these statuses.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.