About this roleFront End Engineering Manager, Aladdin Wealth TechnologyYour teamBlackRock's Aladdin Wealth Tech (AWT) organization develops technology serving financial advisors and investors. The organization brings together products including Advisor Center, Aladdin Risk for Wealth, and the Separately Managed Account business, working alongside marketing and sales teams to improve the experience of technology products and deepen relationships with financial advisors.
Your role and impactAs an Engineering Manager in Mumbai, you will combine hands-on software engineering with technical and people leadership. You will lead engineers delivering front-end and full-stack capabilities, contribute to product roadmap milestones, and provide technical direction across design, development, testing, troubleshooting, and ongoing enhancement of enterprise systems.
The role requires strong engineering judgment, creative problem solving, and the ability to balance technical delivery with leadership, communication, and decision-making. You will help the team build new capabilities, enhance existing systems, strengthen engineering practices, and continue developing technical expertise.
Your responsibilitiesIn every role at BlackRock, you'll be expected to apply sound judgement and critical thinking to solve complex problems, adapt as the business evolves, and combine the curiosity to explore new approaches and technologies with the rigor to challenge the results. The scope of this role also includes the following responsibilities:
- Lead and mentor a team of software engineers delivering front-end and full-stack capabilities, fostering strong engineering practices, learning, and growth.
- Partner with product, design, and quality assurance stakeholders to plan the roadmap, manage delivery, and align engineering priorities with product milestones.
- Provide hands-on engineering leadership across front-end and back-end development, including design, coding, testing, support, troubleshooting, and solutioning.
- Serve as a technical subject-matter expert, translating business requirements into solutions and adopting appropriate languages and frameworks as needed.
- Drive engineering quality through code reviews, timely feedback, continuous testing, debugging, performance optimization, and consistent application of development standards and processes.
- Lead effectively in a globally distributed environment, balancing engineering delivery with sound decision-making, organization, stakeholder management, and communication.
- Stay current with relevant engineering practices and emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), and apply them appropriately to improve product quality, reliability, and innovation.
Your experience - Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent experience, together with substantial professional software-development experience (10+ years).
- Strong front-end engineering experience building client-facing applications using React or Angular, complemented by full-stack development capabilities.
- Proficiency/Familiarity in Java and related frameworks such as Spring Boot and Hibernate, with strong knowledge of object-oriented development, algorithms, data structures, and software design patterns.
- Experience with modern software-engineering practices, including Git, Maven, unit and integration testing, mocking frameworks, code review, security, stability, and software-quality practices.
- Experience leading engineers and collaborating with product, design, quality assurance, and other stakeholders in a globally distributed environment, supported by strong communication, presentation, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills.
- Experience with cloud services and technologies such as Open Container Initiative (OCI) container image packaging and runtime, enterprise-grade container orchestration platforms supporting declarative infrastructure and horizontal scaling, distributed event streaming and messaging platforms, and API gateway technologies is beneficial. Financial-domain experience is also advantageous.
Our BenefitsTo 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 benefitsTo 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 modelBlackRock'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.
Guidance on AI use for candidatesAt BlackRock, AI has long been part of how we work - enhancing decision-making, improving operations, and helping us deliver better outcomes for clients. We encourage candidates to use AI thoughtfully to learn, prepare, and work more effectively; but during our interview process, we want to focus on getting to know you through your own experiences, thinking, and judgment. To support you, we've provided
guidance on when and how to use AI during our hiring process so you can approach each step with confidence and showcase your best self.
About BlackRockAt 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.
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