Systems Software Engineering - Associate Job in Gurgaon at BlackRock

BlackRock is hiring for the role of Vice President of System Software Associate!

Responsibilities of the Candidate:

• Work with global teams to design, develop, test, and maintain solutions. Solutions include but are not limited to improving trading workflows, generating/integrating historical real-time data-driven insights, and reducing trading operating risks.
• Collaborate with traders to improve the trading ecosystem by coming up with creative ideas and discussing new feature requests, issues, and resolution
• Provide regular updates to the team’s project managers and/or stakeholders such as traders
• Provide real-time support for our real-time trading platform for equities, futures, options, and FX
• Maintain our existing platform and solutions such as version upgrades, migration, and business continuity planning exercises.
• Design and develop innovative solutions to improve support, testing, and development effort

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field and 3+ years of equivalent experience
• Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, programming languages, distributed systems & information retrieval
• Proficiency with object-oriented and/or functional programming languages such as Java/C++/Python/Scala
• Proven understanding of Linux/Unix, Perl, Shell Scripting, and databases
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Experience working with “big data” environments a plus
• Experience building stream-based analytics using Spark or Kafka Streaming a plus
• Experience with FIX protocol is desirable
• Basic understanding of financial markets for FX, Equities, Futures, Options & Fixed Income a plus