Associate - Full Stack Engineer, Bangalore

About this role

Preqin, a part of BlackRock, is the world's leading data and insights provider for the alternatives assets industry. We empower the finance community with comprehensive data and expert insights so they can make faster and smarter investment decisions with precision and confidence. We are a forward-thinking company and strive to make an impact by enabling our customers to envision future possibilities, invest in ideas and infrastructure that build strong communities.

Job Overview


Working in the Private Markets Data Engineering team you will be responsible for working collaboratively with Product and other colleagues across the business to build the technology that powers our Researchers as they collect and manage the data of Private Markets. You will be focused on building systems to support the collection, cataloguing and management of all entities across the Private Markets universe, providing consistent labelling and identification.

The systems we use to manage data are critical to the success of Aladdin and Preqin and are core drivers of our mission to unleash the power of data, increasing transparency in alternative assets and empowering the finance community to make better decisions across the global alternatives market. As you build these solutions out for the business you will also explore how AI and similar advancements can be utilised throughout to improve data accuracy and timeliness along with the efficiency of our Research team.

• Collaborate with Engineering, Product and Research teams across the business to build data management technology solutions to support our Research teams and ensure the business can bring high quality data to market quickly.

• Deliver high-quality software solutions at the standards required by an enterprise.

• Be a champion for software quality, using best practice to deliver well designed and tested solutions.

• Contribute to continuous improvement within working practices, teams and yourself.

• Operate autonomously to proactively seek out optimal technological solutions by collaborating with various stakeholders internal and external.

• 4+ years' experience in software engineering.
• Strong technical ability across the full stack: Python, FastAPI, React and Typescript is a plus.

• You have experience building complex, data-centric technology solutions.

• You have knowledge of infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines (including secrets management) and container orchestration software such as Kubernetes

• You are curious; willing to learn about new technologies, ways of working and acquire new skills possessing a growth mindset.

• You know that generating positive outcomes requires knowledge of the customer and the problem space to allow effective use of your technical knowledge ability.

• You are passionate about improving the capacity of engineering teams to deliver value through collaboration, excellent tooling and thin configurable services