Associate Frontend Software Engineer

Blackrock

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Chicago, IL
Salary
$120,000–$148,000 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
12 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live today
Closes
Jan 1, 2027

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Below 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 26 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $155,000–$200,000 across 25 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Associate Frontend Software Engineer

JOB TITLE: Associate, Frontend Software Engineer (React) - SpiderRock Advisors The Associate, Frontend Software Engineer (React) joins the engineering team to build and enhance an internal platform supporting operations, sales, and portfolio management workflows. This role involves designing and building complex, workflow-driven user interfaces that allow investment professionals to analyze data and manage strategies. Key responsibilities include driving performance optimization, maintaining architectural consistency, and contributing to engineering best practices like CI/CD and automated testing. The position requires strong expertise in TypeScript and React, along with experience in UI architecture, state management, and building production-grade applications. Candidates must utilize tools such as git, mocking frameworks, and unit testing. The work focuses on distilling complex, real-time data into clear, actionable user experiences within a business-critical financial technology environment.

What you'll do

  • Design and build complex, workflow-driven user interfaces using TypeScript and React.
  • Drive performance optimization, maintainability, and architectural consistency across applications.
  • Distill complex, real-time data into clear and actionable user experiences for investment professionals.
  • Take ownership of SaaS product components, including production monitoring and incident resolution.
  • Contribute to the continuous improvement of engineering practices like CI/CD and automated testing.
  • Build and maintain tooling for TypeScript projects, including build systems and testing frameworks.
  • Write well-tested code 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, including build systems and testing frameworks, is required.
  • Experience building large-scale, production-grade front-end applications is required.
  • Deep understanding of UI architecture, state management, and performance optimization is required.
  • Experience designing intuitive applications that distill complex, real-time data into actionable user experiences is required.
  • Demonstrable experience building modern software using git, unit testing, integration testing tools, and mocking frameworks is required.
  • Knowledge of functional programming (RxJS) is preferred.
  • Experience working with REST APIs and WebSockets is preferred.

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