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Full Stack Developer

Your role and impact:

In the Aladdin Product Group, Alternatives department, we are seeking a Full Stack Developer to grow and expand our Software Engineering team! You will help the growth of our private market’s platform - eFront Invest. eFront, a part of BlackRock, is a leading software provider of end-to-end solutions for the Alternative Investment players.

Fully integrated into our Aladdin eFront Engineering Team, you are exposed to both the technical and functional layers of our most innovative products, while acquiring outstanding abilities in the fast-growing Private Equity industry, and Alternative Investments in general. You are part of international and diverse environment, with a strong drive for technical innovation.

About you:

You have great analytical skills; you understand what a requirement and a user story are, and you can translate them in an efficient design. You can produce effective and testable code and, as a developer, you understand your role in unitary and integrated testing. You show autonomy in your work organisation, and you can seek for information and help whenever required. You can understand other’s people code and design and make it yours. You work in an inclusive team, as a team fellow and promote equity and inclusion. You collaborate to achieve the goal of the team and deliver according to plan.

Curious and eager to learn new things, with a healthy disrespect for the status quo.

Willing to embrace work outside of your comfort zone, and open to mentorship from others; you make mistakes but learn from them.

Passionate about technology, with personal ownership for the work you do

Data-focused, with an eye for the details that matter to resolve problems.

Technologies and Concepts involved:

C#, with Visual Studio

VB .NET

.NET Framework, .NET Core (.NET)

MS SQL Server

TypeScript / JavaScript / CSS / Html

Cloud based services, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes

Agile (Scrum)

What will you be doing?

You are building new features, from their conception up to their deployment in production. You handle aspects of a SaaS product, including production monitoring and incident resolution on the cloud platform.

You integrate your work in the team methodologies: continuous integration/continuous delivery, automated testing, standard processes' definition.

You are engaging with different groups, full of hardworking, forward-thinking people with an outstanding innovation spirit.

You have:

Bachelor or Master in Engineering, Computer Sciences, Mathematics, or related software engineering background.

Validated experience in software development.

Ability to autonomously dig into an existing codebase and understand its concepts.

Curiosity about the functional part of the product, base knowledge about the Finance industry will be highly appreciated.

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; proactive approach with ability to balance multiple projects simultaneously.

Proficient English, both written and spoken