Vice President, Senior Backend Engineer (Java) - Aladdin Engineering
Core
Lead a team of engineers to rearchitect and modernize a core service in the Aladdin analytics and reporting estate, driving collaboration across engineering, product, and business stakeholders.
Role type
Senior IC Backend Engineer (Java) with team leadership responsibilities
Builds
Next generation analytics factory for Aladdin (BlackRock's investment operating system)
Domain
Financial services / Investment management / Risk analytics
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Java, client-server model, inter-process communication (gRPC, REST), data modeling, relational and NoSQL databases, multi-tier application architecture, distributed and in-memory caching, API design, AI-native skillsets, agentic tooling, software development life cycle (SDLC), test driven development, CI/CD
Preferred skills
Time series data handling, message streaming (Kafka, RabbitMQ), API specifications (OpenAPI), cloud data warehouses (BigQuery, Snowflake), cloud technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Terraform), Linux, telemetry and monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk), application performance tuning, finance industry knowledge