VP, Full-Stack Software Engineer (Java)

About this role Within the Aladdin Product Group – Private Markets, we are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to work on our Private Markets application suite. The position is based with our London team and operates as part of a broader team distributed across several countries worldwide.   This team works with other London based agile teams to build BlackRock's strategic Private Markets platform, including data collection and validation tools. It is built on a modern, cloud-native architecture leveraging Java as the core language.   The role is a hands-on senior individual contributor. It requires deep understanding of the technical aspects of a web-based software deployed in the cloud, strong software architecture knowledge, and advanced understanding of the Product Delivery Life Cycle. AI is at the heart of this role — both as embedded capabilities within the client facing product and as a core methodology in how we design, build, and ship software (AI-augmented development, AI-driven code generation, and AI-assisted quality assurance).

You are an experienced software engineer who is comfortable working on large, greenfield, long-lived systems where correctness, traceability, and operational stability matter as much as delivery speed. You enjoy understanding how data flows through systems, how workflows interact across services, and how design decisions affect our clients. You can work autonomously in complex codebases, while collaborating closely with peers across engineering, product, and QA.   You embrace AI as a force multiplier - both in the product you build and in how you build it. You are not afraid to work on large codebases, leveraging AI-powered tools and copilots to understand, enhance, fix, and develop new product features at pace. You actively seek ways to integrate AI capabilities into product workflows and development processes, viewing AI as a first-class engineering discipline.   As a senior engineer, you contribute through hands-on development, sound technical judgement, and constructive collaboration, rather than through formal authority. You take ownership of the quality of your work and understand the impact it has on business-critical workflows used by investment analysts and data stewards managing billions in private market assets.   Technologies You Will Work With (Hands-On): Java 21 and associated Frameworks (SpringBoot, Hibernate etc), Kubernetes, Azure Cloud, and associated PaaS services, SQL Server, React/Typescript, OAuth.

Designing and implementing features within the Private Markets platform, focusing on enhancing the platform's data collection and management workflows. Building client facing web applications to enable these workflows, including building and integrating new back-end services to support them. Leveraging AI in your development workflow - using AI-powered IDEs, copilots, and code generation tools as standard practice to maximize productivity, accelerate code comprehension, and deliver quality features on time Working across the full software lifecycle, including development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and incident investigation Contributing to the evolution of core platform architecture - modular monolith patterns, micro-frontend orchestration, gRPC API design, and cross-service event-driven workflows Writing clear, maintainable code and contributing to automated testing and CI/CD pipelines with quality gates Diagnosing issues in existing systems, including integrations with internal platform APIs and downstream reporting and analytics systems, and improving them incrementally and safely Participating actively in code reviews and technical discussions, championing best practices in both traditional engineering and AI-augmented development Collaborating closely with engineers, architects, product partners, and QA across locations   Ideally you should have.. A bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a