Application Engineering, Associate

Company: Blackrock, Inc.
Location: Chicago
Posted on: November 11, 2024

Job Description:

About this roleSeeking an energetic professional to work with US-based US Wealth Advisory. This role is a part of a dynamic and rapidly evolving team responsible for data analytics, quantitative analysis and research, and scalable automated options trading. This position requires solid hands-on programming, creative problem solving, troubleshooting skills, and an enthusiasm for learning. This role also offers the opportunity to partner with proficient software engineers to build new systems and enhance existing ones.Key Responsibilities:

• Designing, coding, testing, and supporting reliable, robust software applications and services with high-quality standards
• Participating actively in cross-functional feature requirements gathering, design, and implementation
• Collaborating with product management on the right units of work to include in each development sprint
• Performing code reviews and providing timely feedback to other engineersKey Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree or Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering preferred
  • 2 years of hands-on Python experience.
  • Experience using Pandas data frames to manipulate and aggregate data sets
  • Managing python environments
  • Data manipulation and quantitative calculations
  • GIT based repositories
  • Proven ability to work with varied forms of data infrastructure including relational databases; distributed data processing and storage solutions, e.g. SQL, MySQL
  • Proficiency building and passionate about creating great products that solve big problems
  • Financial knowledge and interest is recommended
  • Strong teamwork, communication skills and time management abilitiesUseful Qualifications:
    • Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) particularly, RDS, EC2, serverless lambdas and the API gateway
    • Experience with Docker or other container infrastructures
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