Software Engineer, AVP - Technology & Innovations

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 $951 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.

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 mean 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.

The Software Engineer for Private Equity & Real Estate Technology will develop and manage innovative technologies for our Asset Management teams. They will build, lead, and mentor a team of technologists to design, build, test, deploy, and support functionality across a variety of stacks and platforms. Through partnering with business stakeholders, they will drive business value while also producing elegant engineering solutions. Internal applications are built using a highly scalable serverless and/or microservice architecture that is deployed via Terraform into AWS. Key technologies in this framework include React, Typescript, Nodejs, Python, C#, SQL, Docker, Jenkins, Terraform and AWS.

Selected candidates will be expected to take ownership of projects and find gaps in design with Blackstone business analysts. They will tackle a variety of problems from automating business processes, scaling out infrastructure to promoting reusable components across the organization.

Responsibilities:

• Use cloud native technologies and services to build scalable and secure applications
• Build, support, and integrate web applications, microservices, and data pipelines on a variety of platforms
• Adopt an inner-source approach and philosophy to collaborate more effectively
• Use modern software development methodologies and tools like JIRA to manage and deliver projects
• Follow scalable & secure architectural practices to build fault tolerant distributed systems
• Write automated unit, integration, and deployment tests
• Use Terraform to create and update infrastructure
• Design data models and persist data to Snowflake and DynamoDB
• Automate deployments using GitLab & Jenkins in coordination with Platform and DevOps engineers
• 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:

• Desire to learn new technologies
• Self-starting, entrepreneurial attitude
• Familiarity with developing applications in any one of the public cloud providers, preferably AWS.
• Strong object-oriented programming experience in any language
• Experience with database technology (relational and/or NoSQL)
• An ability to drive projects from inception to completion
• Willingness to teach 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
• Experience in one or more of messaging, search, caching, automation, and UI frameworks is a plus

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.

Expected annual base salary range:

$145,000 - $170,000

Actual base salary within that range will be determined by several components including but not limited to the individual's experience, skills, qualifications and job location. For roles located outside of the US, please disregard the posted salary bands as these roles will follow a separate compensation process based on local market comparables.

Additional compensation: Base salary does not include other forms of compensation or benefits offered in connection with the advertised role.

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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.

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