Senior Software Engineer
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 Senior Software Engineer, you’ll be building high quality, scalable and performant software solutions that enable our customers to make the right investment decisions. Data literacy, product awareness, communication and initiative are core parts of your skillset. Using your experience, you’ll play an active role in shaping 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. You’ll be a true team player able to work closely with your peers on complex customer problems.
In This Role You Will
Build performant and reliable backend services and data processes on AWS
Create accessible and powerful front-end web experiences for our customers
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.
Focus acutely on quality, using best practice to deliver well designed and tested solutions.
Contribute to continuous improvement within working practices, teams and yourself.
You Are a Good Fit If
You possess strong technical ability across the full stack: Ideally React and strongly typed languages like TypeScript/Go/Python/.NET. Some experience with .NET and valuable as well as familiarity with Python for data processing
Effective testing is core to engineering quality for you. You are comfortable with patterns like TDD and have extensive experience writing different automation test types such as unit, integration, browser and contract tests.
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 and CI/CD pipelines
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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