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# Associate, Software Engineer - SMA Solutions

- **Company:** Blackrock, Inc.
- **Location:** Chicago, IL, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $120,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, C Sharp (Programming Language), Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Continuous Integration, Data Integration, Relational Databases, Software Debugging, HP Systems Insight Manager, Python (Programming Language), MySQL, NumPy, Open Source Technology, Software Engineering, Backend, Git, Cloudformation, Pandas, Event Driven Architecture, Amazon Relational Database Service, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Api Design, Api Gateway, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Terraform, Software Version Control, Data Pipelines, Serverless Computing, Docker, Microservices
- **Published:** August 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/47188BBA7C5D4B7B881B37151F2D4A99/job/

## About the Role

We are looking for talented and passionate engineers who like to innovate and seek complex problems. We recognize that strength comes from teams with a variety of perspectives, and will embrace your unique skills, curiosity, drive, and passion while giving you the opportunity to grow technically and as an individual. We are committed to open source and we regularly give our work back to the community. Engineers looking to work in the areas of orchestration, data modeling, data pipelines, APIs, storage, distribution, distributed computation, consumption and infrastructure are ideal candidates., * Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, STEM or similar technical field, OR equivalent practical experience

 * 2-5 years of professional software development experience
 * Strong Python or C# experience
 * Experience building and supporting production applications, services or APIs
 * Strong SQL / relational database experience (MySQL preferred)
 * Hands-on cloud experience (AWS, Azure or GCP, AWS strongly preferred)
 * Docker/Containers experience (experience building, packaging and deploying containerized applications)
 * Experience with standard software development practices (Git/Source Control, CI/CD, Testing, Debugging/troubleshooting)

Preferred Requirements:

 * AWS Development (Lambda, ECS/EKS, SQS/SNS, API Gateway, RDS, CloudFormation or Terraform
 * Experience building cloud-native or serverless applications
 * Experience developing APIs and backend services
 * Experience with Pandas and NumPy
 * Experience with data-heavy applications or data processing pipelines
 * Experience with Kubernetes
 * Experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform or CloudFormation
 * Experience with distributed or event-driven systems
 * Experience with application monitoring / observability
 * Financial/fintech experience, particularly experience with Options, Derivatives, Equities, Bonds, Fixed Income, Capital Markets, Portfolio Management or Trading Workflows

## Description

We are expanding our team of engineers that owns and operates this extensive technology platform. As a member of this team, you will build, enhance, and support a wide variety of micro-services that enable financial portfolio construction, data integrations to connect diverse systems, and real-time operational workflows. You will work with your team and your stakeholders to ensure that platform capabilities address business needs in a complete and timely manner, with validated quality.


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