sahn44

BlackRock | New York, NY | Full-time ONSITE, VISA | Spark Scala Developer

You will be working on a specific, revenue-generating product critical to the needs of BlackRock’s clients, helping to build a better financial future for firms and individuals throughout the world by harnessing the power of analytics.

Job Description and Responsibilities:

- Work beside Analytics and Product experts to build innovative analytics tools for users both inside and outside our firm

- Leverage distributed computing technologies to build scalable analytics engines and calculators

- Prototype and implement JVM servers for delivering content securely to our enterprise clients

- Architect prototypes and proofs of concepts using the latest open source technologies

- Beyond coding, a successful candidate will strive to learn the business context of their projects and play a leading role in solving problems and driving decisions

Qualifications:

- 2-4 years development experience in both Java and Scala.

- Proficient in functional programming and object oriented design

- Experience with Apache Spark and the Hadoop Ecosystem is required

- Experience with version control, issue management and continuous integration (ex: Git, JIRA, and Jenkins) is required

- BS/MS in computer science or equivalent practical experience

Other applicable experiences:

- Building and securing RESTful web services using Spring

- Involvement with/authoring of open source software a plus

- Passion for automated testing and agile, test-driven development

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Reach out to me directly if interested. I lead the team that is hiring this role: msahn@blackrock.com

We've put together several take-home mini projects as Github repos that have instructions and sample data or a starter template. Candidate clones the repo, commits frequently, and builds something demonstratable that works or doesn't. It's structured to be similar to the kind of early real task they would get. Key is it's open book, they can google and stackoverflow as much as they want. We can see evolution of thought process in the commits and have a good discussion in followup conversation. We do this after they have passed a phone screen or onsite interview and we are interested. So far, we like the results.