BXTI - Marketing Technology, WordPress Engineer, Associate

Blackstone is the world's largest alternative asset manager. We seek to create positive economic impact and long-term value for our investors, the companies we invest in, and the communities in which we work. We do this by using extraordinary people and flexible capital to help companies solve problems. Our $915 billion in assets under management include investment vehicles focused on private equity, real estate, public debt and equity, infrastructure, life sciences, growth equity, opportunistic, non-investment grade credit, real assets and secondary funds, all on a global basis. Further information is available at www.blackstone.com. Follow @blackstone on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram.

Business Unit:

Blackstone Technology & Innovations

Business Description:

Blackstone Technology & Innovations (BXTI) is the technology team at the core of each of Blackstone's businesses and new growth initiatives. Serving both internal and external clients, we work to build the next generation of systems that manage risk, create efficiency and improve transparency within the firm and across our broad community of investors and portfolio companies.

BXTI is nimble and entrepreneurial - our open, iterative design processes and rapid pace of development means that everyone on the team has the opportunity to make an impact from day one. We are problem solvers who can take projects from idea to implementation. We believe in active mentoring and developing excellence. We collaborate to find the best answers for our customers and for Blackstone. We are critical to the firm maintaining its competitive edge.

Job Title:

WordPress Developer

Job Description:

As a WordPress Developer, you will develop and manage innovative technologies that are changing the Alternative Asset Management industry. You will design, build, deploy, test, and support our growing WordPress ecosystem both publicly and internally. Through partnering with business stakeholders, you'll drive business value while also producing great code.

WordPress Developers here build beautiful editor and frontend experiences with Gutenberg, create plugins for custom integrations, and help support the hosting, maintenance, and upgrades of WordPressIn addition to growing and refining functionality within WordPress, you will also gain exposure to platform tools that help support it including Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, and Terraform.

You will be expected to take ownership of projects and identify business design gaps with Blackstone business analysts. You'll tackle a variety of problems from creating custom data integrations to promoting business efficiency through automating content creation. You'll devise elegant solutions to Blackstone's most important problems and put your own best ideas to work in an entrepreneurial environment inside one of the world's most successful companies.

Responsibilities:

• Drive the modernization of BXTI web applications using WordPress
• Support the web application stack for our public websites as well as internal web applications
• Use modern software development methodologies and tools like JIRA to collaborate on and deliver projects
• Write automated unit, integration, and deployment tests
• Identify opportunities to automate away repetitive tasks
• Lead technical design and code reviews to drive projects towards the best results
• Promote, implement, and evolve development best practices

Qualifications:

• Professional experience building WordPress websites
• Fluency in Javascript and familiarity in one modern framework (react, vue.js, next.js, etc)
• Strong experience working with MySQL
• Passion for the WordPress platform. Tell us about contributing to open source, SEO, running headless, responsive design, etc.! You are an ambassador for user experience
• Desire to learn and adapt to new technologies
• Self-starting, entrepreneurial attitude
• An ability to drive your projects from inception to completion
• Willingness to teach, coach, and mentor others
• An ability to produce high quality code and solicit feedback
• Willingness to take a position and share views freely in a constructive and solution-based manner

The duties and responsibilities described here are not exhaustive and additional assignments, duties, or responsibilities may be required of this position. Assignments, duties, and responsibilities may be changed at any time, with or without notice, by Blackstone in its sole discretion.

Blackstone is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, marital or partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic predisposition, veteran or military status, status as a victim of domestic violence, a sex offense or stalking, or any other class or status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to hiring, placement, promotion, termination, transfer, leave of absence, compensation, and training. All Blackstone employees, including but not limited to recruiting personnel and hiring managers, are required to abide by this policy.

If you need a reasonable accommodation to complete your application, please contact Human Resources at 212-583-5000 (US), +44 (0)20 7451 4000 (EMEA) or +852 3656 8600 (APAC).

Depending on the position, you may be required to obtain certain securities licenses if you are in a client facing role and/or if you are engaged in the following:

• Attending client meetings where you are discussing Blackstone products and/or and client questions;
• Marketing Blackstone funds to new or existing clients;
• Supervising or training securities licensed employees;
• Structuring or creating Blackstone funds/products; and
• Advising on marketing plans prepared by a sales team or developing and/or contributing information for marketing materials.

Note: The above list is not the exhaustive list of activities requiring securities licenses and there may be roles that require review on a case-by-case basis. Please speak with your Blackstone Recruiting contact with any questions.

To submit your application please complete the form below. Fields marked with a red asterisk * must be completed to be considered for employment (although some can be answered "prefer not to say"). Failure to provide this information may compromise the follow-up of your application. When you have finished click Submit at the bottom of this form.