BXTI Software Engineer Associate London 2023

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 nimble and entrepreneurial – our open, iterative design processes and rapid pace of development mean that everyone on the team has the opportunity to 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

As a Software Engineer in the Institutional Client Solutions team you will develop innovative technologies that are changing the way our ICS business gain insights and market to clients. You will work closely with a team of technologists to design, build, deploy, test, and support functionality across a variety of stacks and platforms. You'll drive business value while also producing great code for our business stakeholders.

You will help to support the current systems relying on Salesforce, Tableau and .NET Core as well as help drive the platform forward by building highly scalable solutions for new business processes. Key technologies in this framework include: AWS, .NET Core in C#, Python, React, Snowflake and Tableau.

You’ll tackle a variety of problems from promoting business efficiency through enhancing information capturing processes to data visualization to improve fund marketing. You’ll devise elegant solutions to Blackstone's most important problems and put your own best ideas to work in an entrepreneurial environment inside one of the world's most successful companies.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain and integrate web applications and micro-services, on a variety of platforms
• Collaborate with various internal business partners to identify and execute on areas for improvement
• Use Agile software development methodologies and tools like Jira to manage and deliver on projects
• Follow scalable architectural practices to build fault tolerant distributed systems
• Develop software defined infrastructure
• Design data models and persist data to Snowflake
• Automate deployments in coordination with Platform and DevOps engineers
• Identify opportunities to automate away repetitive tasks
• Promote, implement, and evolve development best practices
• Troubleshoot and prioritize business and technology initiatives

Qualifications

• B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or similar
• Have a strong understanding of highly scalable microservice architectures.
• Technical software development and system architecture experience as an individual contributor
• A self-starting, entrepreneurial attitude with the ability to quickly adapt to new technologies
• Expertise in one or more of Salesforce, OpenAPI, Docker, AWS, .NET Core in C#, Python, Snowflake and Tableau
• Strong object-oriented programming experience in any language
• Have prior experience delivering modernized technology to business users
• Experience with Agile
• An ability to drive your projects from inception to completion
• Possesses a desire to teach, coach, and mentor others while also making significant individual contributions
• Ensures that the team produces high quality code, facilitates communication and feedback

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, national origin or any other category protected by law.

The duties and responsibilities described here are not exhaustive and additional assignments, duties, or responsibilities may be required of this position. Assignments, duties, and responsibilities may be changed at any time, with or without notice, by Blackstone in its sole discretion.

Blackstone is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, marital or partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic predisposition, veteran or military status, status as a victim of domestic violence, a sex offense or stalking, or any other class or status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to hiring, placement, promotion, termination, transfer, leave of absence, compensation, and training. All Blackstone employees, including but not limited to recruiting personnel and hiring managers, are required to abide by this policy.

If you need a reasonable accommodation to complete your application, please contact Human Resources at 212-583-5000 (US), +44 (0)20 7451 4000 (EMEA) or +852 3656 8600 (APAC).

Depending on the position, you may be required to obtain certain securities licenses if you are in a client facing role and/or if you are engaged in the following:

• Attending client meetings where you are discussing Blackstone products and/or and client questions;
• Marketing Blackstone funds to new or existing clients;
• Supervising or training securities licensed employees;
• Structuring or creating Blackstone funds/products; and
• Advising on marketing plans prepared by a sales team or developing and/or contributing information for marketing materials.

Note: The above list is not the exhaustive list of activities requiring securities licenses and there may be roles that require review on a case-by-case basis. Please speak with your Blackstone Recruiting contact with any questions.

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