Front-office Senior Software Engineer, VP - Liquid Credit
Blackstone is the world’s largest alternative asset manager. Blackstone seeks to deliver compelling returns for institutional and individual investors by strengthening the companies in which the firm invests. Blackstone’s over $1.3 trillion in assets under management include global investment strategies focused on real estate, private equity, credit, infrastructure, life sciences, growth equity, secondaries and hedge funds. Further information is available at www.blackstone.com. Follow @blackstone on LinkedIn, X (Twitter), and Instagram. Business Unit: Blackstone Technology & Innovations (BXTI) is the technology team at the core of each of Blackstone’s businesses and new growth initiatives. Serving both internal and external clients, we work to build the next generation of systems that manage risk, create efficiency, and improve transparency within the firm and across our broad community of investors and portfolio companies. BXTI is entrepreneurial – our open, iterative design processes and rapid pace of engineering mean that everyone on the team can make an impact from day one. We are problem solvers who can take projects from idea to implementation. We believe in active mentoring and developing excellence. We collaborate to find the best answers for our customers and for Blackstone. We are critical to the firm maintaining its competitive edge. Job Description: The Liquid Credit Technology team develops modern fixed-income asset management systems including portfolio management systems, order management systems, execution management systems, and trade processing to support Liquid Credit Strategies (“LCS”) business. LCS manages $114B in AUM across diversified portfolios of fixed income investments, such as bank loans, high yield bonds, CDS/CDX, Future, Repo, CMBS/RMBS, CLO debt and equity tranches. The new hire will be a key member of the team developing software solutions for the portfolio managers and traders. Our existing applications are built on a highly scalable microservice architecture deployed in a cloud-hosted containerized environment. Key technologies in our stack include Angular, React, Fast API, Python, C#, Terraform, SQL, AWS ECS, AWS Lambda, AWS SNS/SQS, CI/CD tooling (e.g., Jenkins, Gitlab Runners), and data warehouse solutions like Snowflake. Qualifications: We seek to hire individuals who are highly motivated, intelligent, and have demonstrated excellence in prior endeavors. In addition, the successful candidate should have: 7+ years of proven software engineering experience in relevant industry, with proficiency in C# and/or Python, JavaScript, Typescript, databases (relational and/or NoSQL), and cloud technologies, preferably AWS. Experience as a hands-on tech lead with effective collaboration with business, product managers, UX designers, and other tech leads Self-starter with an entrepreneurial attitude, willing to teach and...