C++ Engineer, Aladdin Engineering - Investment Compliance, Associate

About this role

About BlackRock:

Are you interested in building innovative technology that crafts the financial markets? Do you like working at the speed of a startup, and solving some of the world's most exciting challenges? Do you want to work with, and learn from, hands-on leaders in technology and finance?

At BlackRock, we are looking for Software Engineers who like to innovate and solve sophisticated problems. We recognize that strength comes from diversity, and will embrace your outstanding skills, curiosity, and passion while giving you the opportunity to grow technically and as an individual.

We invest and protect over $11 trillion (USD) of assets and have an extraordinary responsibility to our clients all over the world. Our technology empowers millions of investors to save for retirement, pay for college, buy a home, and improve their financial well-being.

Being a technologist at BlackRock means you get the best of both worlds: working for one of the most sophisticated financial companies and being part of a software development team responsible for next generation technology and solutions.

Team Overview:

You will be working on BlackRock's investment operating system called Aladdin. Aladdin is used both internally within BlackRock and externally by many financial institutions. Aladdin combines sophisticated risk analytics with comprehensive portfolio management, trading, and operations tools on a single platform to power informed decision-making and create a connective tissue for thousands of users investing worldwide.

Our development teams reside inside the Aladdin Engineering group. We collaboratively build the next generation of technology that changes the way information, people, and technology intersect for global investment firms. We build and package tools that manage trillions in assets and support millions of financial instruments. We perform risk calculations and process millions of transactions for thousands of users every day worldwide!

You will be part of the Security Analytics team, working on mission-critical C++ applications that power portfolio management, compliance, and risk analytics across Aladdin. The primary focus is on a batch-processing system responsible for security-level sectoring, classification, and compliance data aggregation across global portfolios. You will also contribute to the broader compliance C++ platform and analytical library package that underpins the firm's fixed income, credit, and multi-asset analytics.

Role Overview:

• Tenacious: Work in a fast-paced and highly complex environment with large-scale legacy and modern C++ codebases.
• Creative thinker: Analyze multiple solutions and deploy technologies in a flexible way, balancing performance with maintainability.
• Great teammate: Think and work collaboratively and communicate effectively across globally distributed teams.
• Fast learner: Pick up new financial and technical concepts and apply them quickly in a production-critical context.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with team members in a multi-office, multi-country environment.
• Deliver high-efficiency, high-availability, concurrent and fault-tolerant C++ software systems.
• Significantly contribute to the development and modernization of Aladdin's security analytics and compliance platform, with a focus on bucketing application and related portfolio management services.
• Maintain and enhance shared analytical C++ libraries covering fixed income analytics, risk, pricing, portfolio construction, credit ratings, and compliance.
• Contribute to the compliance C++ platform including intraday/overnight engines and related tooling.
• Work with product management and business users to define the roadmap for the product.
• Design and develop innovative solutions to complex problems, identifying issues and roadblocks.
• Apply validated quality software engineering practices through all phases of development.
• Ensure resilience and stability through quality code reviews, unit, regression and user acceptance testing, DevOps and level-two production support.
• Be a leader with vision and a partner in brainstorming solutions for team productivity, efficiency, guiding and motivating others.
• Drive a strong culture by bringing principles of inclusion and diversity to the team and setting the tone through specific recruiting, management actions and employee engagement.

Qualifications:

• B.S. / M.S. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related quantitative subject area.
• 4+ years of experience

Skills and Experience:

• A proven foundation in modern C++ (C++14/17 or later) with strong object-oriented design and design pattern skills.
• Track record building high-quality software with design-focused and test-driven approaches.
• Hands-on experience with CMake-based build systems, large-scale C++ codebases, and multi-library dependency management.
• In-depth understanding of concurrent programming and experience in designing high-throughput, high-availability, fault-tolerant applications, including batch processing and distributed compute frameworks.
• Experience with database programming (SQL, stored procedures, bulk copy/insert operations) and integration with relational databases (e.g., Sybase/SQL Server).
• Demonstrable experience building modern software using engineering tools such as Git, CMake, GTest, clang-tidy, clang-format, and CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps).
• Strong analytical and software architecture design skills with an emphasis on test-driven development.
• Great analytical, problem-solving and communication skills.
• Some experience or a real interest in finance, investment processes, and/or an ability to translate business problems into technical solutions.

Nice to Have and Opportunities to Learn:

• Experience with Boost libraries (iostreams, filesystem, regex, lexical_cast) in production systems.
• Familiarity with legacy C++ codebases and migration/modernization strategies.
• Experience with Protobuf for serialization and inter-process communication.
• Exposure to distributed messaging systems and data distribution frameworks.
• Experience with performance profiling and optimization of compute-intensive analytical applications.
• Familiarity with structured finance instruments (MBS, CMBS, ABS, CLOs) and their analytical models.
• Experience with quantitative libraries (Eigen, LAPACK, GSL, IMSL) for numerical computation.
• Experience working in an agile development team or on open-source development projects.
• Experience with optimization, algorithms, or related quantitative processes.
• Experience with Cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud.
• Experience with cloud deployment technology and containerization.
• Experience with DevOps and tools like Azure DevOps.
• Experience with AI-related projects/products or experience working in an AI research environment.
• Exposure to XML processing libraries (Xerces, Xalan) and log frameworks (log4cpp).
• A degree, certifications, or open-source track record that shows you have a mastery of software engineering principles.
   

For New York, NY Only the salary range for this position is USD$132,500.00 - USD$162,000.00 . Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, and benefits including healthcare, leave benefits, and retirement benefits. BlackRock operates a pay-for-performance compensation philosophy and your total compensation may vary based on role, location, and firm, department and individual performance.

Our benefits
To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.

Our hybrid work model

BlackRock’s 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 week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities. We remain focused on increasing the impactful moments that arise when we work together in person – aligned with our commitment to performance and innovation. As a new joiner, you can count on this hybrid model to accelerate your learning and onboarding experience here at BlackRock.

About BlackRock

At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being.  Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children’s educations, buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.

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 workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to all applicants and existing employees, and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity/expression), sexual orientation, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability, marital status, political affiliation, religion, citizenship status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. View the EEOC’s Know Your Rights poster and its supplement and the pay transparency statement.

 

BlackRock is committed to full inclusion of all qualified individuals and to providing reasonable accommodations or job modifications for individuals with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation/adjustments are needed throughout the employment process, please email [email protected]. All requests are treated in line with our privacy policy.

BlackRock will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in a manner consistent with the requirements of the law, including any applicable fair chance law.