Lead Software Engineer (VP)
Hybrid
London, United Kingdom
Full Time
16-04-2025
Job Specifications
About This Role
Job overview
This role sits within Preqin, a part of BlackRock. Preqin plays a key role in how we are revolutionizing private markets data and technology for clients globally, complementing our existing Aladdin technology platform to deliver investment solutions for the whole portfolio.
As a VP, Software Engineer, you’ll be leading an engineering pod within a business unit – with responsibility for technical and operational quality and an intense focus of building the right solutions for our customers. Data literacy, product awareness, communication and leadership are core parts of your skillset. You’ll also work as part of a wider Engineering leadership group, helping to set the technical direction within the team, ensure we design, deliver and maintain a technology platform that is scalable, reliable, performant, and extensible. You’ll work directly with product managers to ideate and develop new features and actively take part in conversations about new product directions, technical and data architecture and software quality.
In This Role You Will
Lead an engineering pod using strong leadership and influence skills. While the role does not have people leadership responsibility, you’ll work closely with the Engineering Manager to ensure your pod is high performing.
Champion a curious and diligent engineering mindset to enhance our platform capabilities.
Work in partnership with Product to discover customer needs and play a leading role in ideation.
Build performant and reliable backend services and data processes on AWS
Create accessible and powerful front-end web experiences for our customers
Drive an automation testing mindset within the team, striking the balance between quality and delivery and reducing the dependency on manual testing.
Execute your ability to translate complex ideas into understandable language for your non-technical colleagues across marketing, design and sales.
Be instrumental to continuously improving our working environment, teams, product quality, and yourself.
You Are a Good Fit If
You have strong leadership skills that enable you to lead and motivate a team through influence
You possess strong technical ability across the fullstack: React and any typed backend programming language
You have driven technical solution design, taking the balance of engineering quality, testing, scalability and security into consideration
You are customer obsessed! You are comfortable speaking to customers and clients to understand their needs and are energised about working in a continuous discovery environment, constantly listening, iterating, refining and adapting.
You have deep knowledge and experience of working within cloud provider services - AWS is preferred, and utilisation of infrastructure as code
You have implemented (or have experience using) Continuous Delivery pipelines for frequent live deployments, developing effective automated tests to ensure confidence
You have driven automation testing across unit, integration, browser and contract tests to create confidence in our solutions and services
You are value driven – the value of what we deliver is at the forefront of your mind and you use metrics and data to inform this
You’re curious; willing to learn about new technologies, ways of working and acquire new skills in a truly “agile” mindset.
Our Benefits
To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of employee benefits including: retirement investment and tools designed to help you in building a sound financial future; access to education reimbursement; comprehensive resources to support your physical health and emotional well-being; family support programs; 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.
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.
For additional information on BlackRock, please visit @blackrock | Twitter: @blackrock | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/blackrock
BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, disability, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation and other protected characteristics at law.
About the Company
BlackRock is a global asset manager and technology provider dedicated to helping more and more people experience financial well-being. We help millions of people invest to build savings that serve them throughout their lives. We always start with our clients’ needs and look to offer them more quality choices for how and where to invest their money. Our global investments platform offers our clients access to the world’s markets while making investing easier and more affordable. And with offices in more than 40 countrie... Know more
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