Associate Application Engineer III

Blackrock

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Work type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco, CA
Salary: $165,131–$175,000 / yr
Employment: Full-time
Posted: 4 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Closes: Nov 14, 2026
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Above market

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About Blackrock

BlackRock is the world''s largest asset management firm, providing investment management, risk management, and advisory services to institutional and retail clients through its Aladdin technology platform. Industry: Asset Management & Financial Services

Blackrock currently has 22 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $157,500–$197,500 across 20 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Associate Application Engineer III

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The Associate, Application Engineer III joins the team to contribute to development tasks, architectural decisions, and the creation of prototypes. This role involves building strategic systems for client reporting distribution and notification capabilities while providing second-line support for technical and operational issues. The engineer will collaborate with client support teams to resolve escalated concerns, maintain existing application functionality, and refine business and functional requirements. Key technical requirements include Object-Oriented Programming, Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate ORM, SQL, and Maven. Candidates must also possess skills in Kafka for messaging, JUnit testing with Mockito, and modern DevOps CI/CD workflows. Additionally, the role requires experience with systems-level software in distributed environments and cloud infrastructure, specifically AWS and Azure, to solve complex enterprise-level application development and scaling problems.

Skills

Java Spring Boot Hibernate SQL Kafka AWS Azure Maven JUnit Mockito CI/CD Object-Oriented Programming Relational Database Design Design Patterns

What you'll do

Contribute to development tasks, architectural decisions, and the creation of prototypes.
Build strategic systems for client reporting distribution and notification capabilities.
Provide second-line support for technical and operational issues.
Collaborate with client support teams to resolve escalated concerns.
Maintain and enhance existing application functionality.
Refine business and functional requirements.
Communicate technology decisions, issues, and plans to senior team members.

What we're looking for

Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
Three years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.
Three years of experience with Java, OOP, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Maven, and JUnit/Mockito.
Three years of experience with backend/full-stack development, design patterns, SQL, and relational data modeling.
Three years of experience with Kafka, messaging, event-driven architecture, and CI/CD workflows.
Two years of experience with systems-level software in distributed environments.
Two years of experience with cloud infrastructure including AWS and Azure.

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