About this role
AboutQuantitative AnalyticsEngineering
BlackRock is one of the worldās preeminent asset management firms and an outstanding provider of global investment management, risk management, and advisory services to institutional,intermediaryand individual investors around the world. Besides offering a range of investment solutions ā from fundamental and quantitative active management approaches to highly efficient indexing strategies ā BlackRock also provides direct access to its market leading analytic models by onboarding clients to its Aladdin Platform, an end-to-end portfolio management software solution.Ā
The Investments and Trading Engineering (ITE) team builds and delivers Aladdin's industry-leading risk management, portfolio management,complianceand trading capabilities. Within ITE, Quantitative Analytics Engineering (QAE) is a global team of quantitative developers responsible for the implementation of security valuation, portfolio risk, liquidity,and performance attribution models. BlackRock Portfolio managers and external Aladdin clients such as pension funds and insurance companies rely on modelsmaintainedby QAE toidentifyinvestment opportunities, build portfolios and manage risk.
About the role
Join us as a senior Software Developer inQAEBudapest to craft the next generation of our single security analytical modelling platform using C++23 and Python 3 with the help of colleagues across Europe andtheUSA!Ā
You will create new modules, applications,APIs,and observability pipelines to provide clients with novel ways of using our analytics.
You will understand our business processes,identifybottlenecks,and provideoptimizationsto improve our cloud compute performance.
It is important to have the ability to manage complex implementation and requirements as you will be workingona scalable,modular,and distributed architecture.Ā
You will communicate with the users of our analytical systems and with stakeholders formulating external client requirements. You will also approach other teams in BlackRock to learn about the business use-cases we serve and how they could be recreated more efficiently on a novel platform.Ā
We work in an integrated, agile team with a focus on quality of workvalidatedthrough automated testing, and we value effective and clean code.Ā
The analytical models we serve are the heart of BlackRock, havingthem delivered in a scalable and reliable way is a cross-team effort valued by all the parties involved.Ā
About our team
Security Analytics Infrastructure (SAI) is an established team ofQAEwith presence in Hungary, New York, India,and Switzerland.
We develop scalable, high throughput, low latency analytical software in close cooperation with the Aladdin Financial Modelling team for valuation of fixed income products like swaps,bonds,privatecreditand derivatives.Ā
Challenging the status quo is our norm, and we excel in building modern systems and onboarding innovative technology like microservice architectures. We are pioneers of the firm and early adopters of new tools and industry standards. We are a diverse team with different ideas working towards the same goal.Ā
Our dominant programming languages are C++ and Python.Ā
We are passionate about what we do and hope you are, too!Ā
Requirements
You should be
Experienced in enterprise software development (5-7 years)Ā
Qualified with aBachelorāsdegree or higher in Computer Science or a related field
Ready to lead. Work experience where youwereresponsible for or owner of anapplication orcomponent.Willingness and ability to provide tutoring and mentorship to less experienced team members.Ā
Pragmatic and solution orientedĀ
Eager to work as part of a software development team
You are familiar with
C++17 or later
Python 3
Design patterns,Object-Oriented Designprinciples,andfundamental Algorithms and Data Structures
Software development tools (test frameworks, version control)
Continuous Integration
Nice to know
Agentic development principles
C++ development tools (CMake, ninja,ccache,distcc)
Google Protocol Buffers
Unix systems (Red Hat, Ubuntu)
Profiling tools (gprof,valgrind,gperftools)
DevOps tools (Azure DevOps)
Scripting languages (bash, PowerShell)
Microsoft SQL
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Knowledge of finance and fixed income asset types is a plus but nota must. We will help to learn what is needed.
Our benefits
To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of employee benefits including: retirement investment and tools designed to help you in building a sound financial future; access to education reimbursement; comprehensive resources to support your physical health and emotional well-being; family support programs; and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.
Our hybrid work model
BlackRockās hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees, while supporting flexibility for all. Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per we
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