AI-Augmented Full Stack Engineer Aladdin Engineering Post Trade Investment Operations - Vice President

About this role

About BlackRock:
BlackRock is a global leader in investment management investing and protecting over $14 trillion (USD) in assets worldwide. Our technology platform powers investment operations at global scale and enables better financial outcomes for millions of investors.

As a technologist at BlackRock you’ll build next generation systems that combine the pace of a startup with the impact of one of the world’s most sophisticated financial institutions.

Team Overview:
The Aladdin Post Trade Investment Operations team builds and operates mission critical platforms supporting the post trade investment lifecycle including performance calculation trade settlement and confirmation derivatives and corporate actions processing payments and reconciliation systems.
The team focuses on scalability accuracy resilience and high quality client outcomes.

Role Summary:
We are seeking a senior full stack engineer with strong backend and distributed systems expertise who actively leverages AI assisted development and agentic workflows to accelerate delivery and improve engineering quality.
You will design build and operate high scale systems while helping shape how AI is responsibly integrated into enterprise software development.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design develop and maintain full stack applications using AI assisted development tools
• Architect and implement agentic AI workflows including multi agent orchestration and autonomous task execution
• Provide technical leadership in software design architecture and AI augmented engineering practices
• Build responsive user interfaces using React or Angular and integrate with backend services via API first architectures
• Design and operate distributed systems with a strong focus on resiliency idempotency failure handling and scalability
• Collaborate with cross functional teams across regions to deliver high quality solutions
• Drive delivery planning prioritization and execution against business commitments
• Ensure system quality through automated testing AI assisted code reviews and production support
• Continuously evaluate and adopt emerging AI LLM and engineering tooling

Required Skills & Experience:

• Strong programming experience in Java Python.
• Experience using AI assisted development tools in production workflows
• Practical experience building agentic AI workflows using frameworks such as LangChain LangGraph Google ADK AutoGen or CrewAI
• Experience integrating large language models via APIs (OpenAI Azure OpenAI Anthropic Google Vertex AI)
• Frontend experience with React or Angular TypeScript and responsive web design
• Backend experience with Spring messaging systems such as Kafka and API development (REST gRPC GraphQL)
• Strong experience with multithreading concurrency primitives and building thread safe high throughput systems
• Experience with relational (Sybase MSSQL) and NoSQL databases
• Strong understanding of distributed systems performance tuning and scalability
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments with strong collaboration and communication skills

Qualifications:

• B.S. / M.S. degree in Computer Science Engineering or related subject area
• 5-7+ years of hands on development experience
• 1+ years of demonstrable experience using AI assisted development tools in production workflows
• Experience building or contributing to at least one agentic AI system or multi agent workflow

 
Nice to Have:

• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure AWS or GCP)
• Exposure to large scale distributed systems
• Experience with DevOps and CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Azure DevOps)
• Familiarity with MCP A2A or similar agent communication standards
• Experience with model tuning embeddings/vector search evaluation and testing
• Interest in finance investment workflows or enterprise AI governance
   

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.

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 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 [email protected]. All requests are treated in line with our privacy policy.

What We Do

As the world’s largest asset manager BlackRock partners with investors around the globe to help them (and those on whose behalf they invest) plan for life’s most important goals – like retirement home ownership and their children’s education. Our clients range from governments foundations and other large institutions to those investing on behalf of individuals including firefighters nurses teachers and factory workers. BlackRock was founded with the idea of creating a better asset management firm — one that was purpose-driven focused on clients and risk management and propelled by data and technology. Our breakthrough Aladdin® platform is BlackRock’s technological backbone helping investors see and manage their whole portfolios in one place – from constructing investments to monitoring risk and executing trades. Used by hundreds of external institutions around the world Aladdin combines powerful analytics and a common language to help investment teams make faster more informed decisions across public and private markets. It’s a key part of our business and one of the reasons we’re trusted to manage more assets than any other investment manager today. At BlackRock we challenge conventions and raise the bar for what’s possible. We harness technology to unlock new solutions simplify complexity and deliver investment strategies that meet people where they are. Whether it’s retirement planning wealth building or navigating market shifts we’re here to help clients invest more easily more affordably and with more choice as we chart a path toward financial well-being together. Learn more: Careers.BlackRock.com

Why Work With Us

Without our people technology is irrelevant. When we combine the power of people with the power of technology we amplify our ability to create better outcomes for our employees clients shareholders and society alike.

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