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by sahn44 3453 days ago
BlackRock | New York, NY | Full-time ONSITE, VISA | Spark Scala Developer

You will be working on a specific, revenue-generating product critical to the needs of BlackRock’s clients, helping to build a better financial future for firms and individuals throughout the world by harnessing the power of analytics.

Job Description and Responsibilities:

- Work beside Analytics and Product experts to build innovative analytics tools for users both inside and outside our firm

- Leverage distributed computing technologies to build scalable analytics engines and calculators

- Prototype and implement JVM servers for delivering content securely to our enterprise clients

- Architect prototypes and proofs of concepts using the latest open source technologies

- Beyond coding, a successful candidate will strive to learn the business context of their projects and play a leading role in solving problems and driving decisions

Qualifications:

- 2-4 years development experience in both Java and Scala.

- Proficient in functional programming and object oriented design

- Experience with Apache Spark and the Hadoop Ecosystem is required

- Experience with version control, issue management and continuous integration (ex: Git, JIRA, and Jenkins) is required

- BS/MS in computer science or equivalent practical experience

Other applicable experiences:

- Building and securing RESTful web services using Spring

- Involvement with/authoring of open source software a plus

- Passion for automated testing and agile, test-driven development

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Reach out to me directly if interested. I lead the team that is hiring this role: msahn@blackrock.com