Backend Developer
- Primetrace
- 6 - 9 years
- Mumbai
- 2 months ago
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About this role
BlackRock Company Description: BlackRock helps investors build better financial futures. As a fiduciary to our clients, we provide the investment and technology solutions they need when planning for their most important goals. As of December 2023, we have been entrusted to manage $10 trillion across equity, fixed income, alternatives, multi-asset, and cash management strategies for our institutional and retail clients. For additional information on BlackRock, please visit www.blackrock.com | Twitter: @blackrock | Blog: www.blackrockblog.com | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com / company / blackrock .
Business Unit Overview:
USWA Business delivers BlackRocks full set of capabilities - iShares, alpha-seeking and alternative products, portfolio solutions and technology services - to wealth management firms and financial advisors in the US.
Advisor Engagement group within the USWA Business delivers a broad set of services and client engagement approaches that amplify the work of our client teams. This includes digital client engagement, business consulting, thought leadership, advisor growth programs, and advisor education. The team also works closely with Global Marketing to design an integrated USWA marketing strategy. WEA (Wealth Enablement and Analytics) Engineering team within Advisor Engagement group develops new tools and capabilities which enable Sales, Portfolio Consulting, and other Wealth Distribution partners to self-service their advisor engagements, and drive innovation and scale.
Job Purpose/Background:
We are looking for an upbeat professional with hands-on technical experience in the design and development of Python-based micro services. This outstanding opportunity will allow you to apply your expertise in back-end technologies within an exciting and learning environment.
Join a best-in-class development team at BlackRock to craft innovative wealth management solutions. You will be working in our dynamic work environment, where strong problem-solving skills, independent self-direction, and teamwork are essential.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable and performant Python micro services.
- Optimize services for maximum speed and scalability.
- Independently deliver major projects and be a key to technical designs.
- Work closely with frontend developers to provide end-to-end solutions.
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code following standard methodologies.
- Implement unit tests and end-to-end tests.
- Perform code reviews and ensure consistency with coding standards.
- Identify and fix performance bottlenecks in Python micro service.
- Build s solutions by bringing to bear the existing BlackRock environment, ensuring multiple points of use.
- Project planning with Agile methodologies, including user stories, sprints, retrospectives, backlog management, and kanban boards.
- Flexibility to learn and work on various programming languages as per project needs
- Mentor and foster team members.
Qualifications:
- Bachelors or Master s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Eligibility Criteria:
- 6 to 9 years of professional experience in backend development using Python, preferably in the finance industry.
- Ability to handle core aspects of projects, technical modules, or major components.
- Strong understanding of OOP, design patterns, and software engineering principles.
- Hands on experience with Python web frameworks like Flask or Django.
- Proficiency with relational databases (e.g., Sybase, PostgreSQL, MySQL) and ORMs (e.g., SQL Alchemy, Django ORM).
- Experience with caching layers (e.g., Redis, Memcached) and message brokers (e.g., RabbitMQ, Kafka).
- Knowledge of asynchronous programming and event-driven architectures is desirable.
- Hands-on experience with unit testing, CI/CD, and containerization using Docker.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure is a strong plus.
- Proficiency with RESTful API design, versioning, and authentication mechanisms (OAuth2, JWT).
- In-depth knowledge of Python programming language, including libraries for data structures and reporting templates.
- Great collaborator with leadership skills and ability to provide clear global communication.
- Proven track record of performance, resulting in highly satisfied business partners.
- Experience working with global project teams across several time zones.
- Flexibility of shift timings.
Desirable
- Experience crafting web applications with front-end frameworks like Angular or React.
- Exposure to Microservice and monolithic architectures
- Familiarity with monitoring tools (e.g. Grafana, Splunk)
- Hands-on to Linux based development environment
BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer M/F/D/V
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About BlackRock
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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, family status, gender identity, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation and other protected attributes at law.
Job Classification
Industry: Financial ServicesFunctional Area / Department: Engineering - Software & QA
Role Category: Software Development
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Employement Type: Full time
Contact Details:
Company: PrimetraceLocation(s): Mumbai
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Keyskills: Linux Coding MySQL Agile Data structures Healthcare SyBase Analytics SQL Python
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