Associate Frontend Software Engineer (React)

Blackrock

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Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
Chicago, IL
Salary
$120,000–$148,000 / yr
Posted
76 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $191k
This role $134k
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This role pays less than 91% of similar roles. Most pay $157,150–$224,250 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $134k versus about $191k for comparable roles.

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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 81 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $147,500–$195,000 across 77 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Associate Frontend Software Engineer (React)

As an Associate, Frontend Software Engineer (React), you will join a product-driven engineering team to build and enhance an internal platform supporting operations, sales, and portfolio management workflows. You will design and build complex, workflow-driven user interfaces that help investment professionals analyze data and manage strategies. Your daily responsibilities include driving performance optimization, maintaining architectural consistency, and contributing to engineering practices like CI/CD and automated testing. The role requires expert proficiency in TypeScript and React, along with experience building large-scale production applications and managing tools for TypeScript projects. You will utilize technologies such as Git, mocking frameworks, and potentially RxJS, REST APIs, and WebSockets. The work focuses on creating intuitive user experiences that distill complex, real-time data into actionable insights within the financial services domain to solve critical business problems.

What you'll do

  • Design and build complex, workflow-driven user interfaces using TypeScript and React.
  • Drive performance optimization, maintainability, and architectural consistency across front-end applications.
  • Build and maintain tooling for TypeScript projects, including build systems and testing frameworks.
  • Translate complex, real-time data into intuitive and actionable user experiences.
  • Take ownership of SaaS product components, including production monitoring and incident resolution.
  • Improve engineering workflows through CI/CD, automated testing, and best practices.
  • Develop high-quality software using design-focused and test-driven development approaches.

What we're looking for

  • Strong expertise in TypeScript and React is required.
  • Experience building and maintaining tooling for TypeScript projects, such as build systems and testing frameworks.
  • Experience building large-scale, production-grade front-end applications.
  • Deep understanding of UI architecture, state management, and performance optimization.
  • UX expertise in designing intuitive applications that simplify complex, real-time data into actionable experiences.
  • Proficiency with engineering tools including git, unit testing, integration testing, and mocking frameworks.
  • Ability to write well-tested code using design-focused and test-driven development approaches.
  • Knowledge of functional programming (RxJS), REST APIs, WebSockets, and financial market workflows is preferred.

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