Backend Engineer, Aladdin Data, Associate

Role Overview

Aladdin Data is the foundation of the Aladdin platform, delivering trusted, scalable, and high-quality data solutions that power investment decision-making across BlackRock and its global client base. The Enterprise Data Catalog is a foundational platform within the Aladdin Data ecosystem, designed to provide a unified, scalable, and intelligent layer for metadata management, data discovery, lineage, and governance across BlackRock. Built on top of the open-source DataHub platform, we are extending and customizing its capabilities.

As an Associate, Backend Engineer, you will play a key role in evolving this platform—enhancing core metadata services, extending native DataHub capabilities, and building a seamless, pluggable framework that integrates deeply with BlackRock’s data ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain high-quality backend applications using Java 11+, Spring Boot, and related enterprise frameworks.
• Build and enhance REST APIs, microservices, and event-driven services for large-scale distributed systems.
• Contribute to architecture, design discussions, code reviews, and technical decision-making.
• Develop scalable data integration components using relational databases, SQL, and modern data platforms.
• Work with messaging and streaming technologies such as Kafka or similar event-processing platforms.
• Implement caching and performance optimization patterns using technologies such as Redis.
• Support production stability through monitoring, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with Product, Operations, and other Engineering teams to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Promote engineering best practices including automated testing, CI/CD, code quality, secure coding, observability, and documentation.

Requirements

• Around 5 years of professional software engineering experience, with strong hands-on Java development.
• Strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, RESTful services, and backend application development.
• Experience designing and building microservices and distributed systems.
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming, data structures, design patterns, and clean code principles.
• Strong experience with relational databases such as SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or similar.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git, automated testing, and modern software delivery practices.
• Strong debugging, performance tuning, and production support skills.
• Ability to work in an agile environment and collaborate across global teams.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Skills

• Experience working on financial services, asset management, trading, risk, accounting, post-trade, or investment technology platforms.
• Experience with Snowflake, ETL/data pipelines, or large-scale data processing.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, containers, cloud platforms, or DevOps practices.
• Experience with Python, shell scripting, or other backend/data engineering tools.
• Understanding of secure software development and enterprise control standards.
• Experience with front end technologies such as React JS , Angular is a plus .
• Experience with Kafka, messaging queues, or event-driven architecture.
• Hands-on experience with caching solutions such as Redis.