BXTI - Client & Firm Platforms, Senior Software Engineer, AVP

Job Description:

Firm Overview:

Blackstone is one of the world’s leading investment firms. We seek to create positive economic impact and long-term value for our investors, the companies we invest in, and the communities in which we work. We do this by using extraordinary people and flexible capital to help companies solve problems. Our asset management businesses, with $584 billion in assets under management, include investment vehicles focused on private equity, real estate, public debt and equity, growth equity, opportunistic, non-investment grade credit, real assets and secondary funds, all on a global basis. Further information is available at www.blackstone.com . Follow Blackstone on Twitter @Blackstone .

Business Unit:

Blackstone Technology & Innovations

Business Description:

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 means 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 Title:

Software Engineer

Job Description:

As a Software Engineer, you will develop and manage innovative technologies that are changing the Alternative Asset Management industry. You will design, build, deploy, test, and support functionality across a variety of stacks and platforms. Through partnering with business stakeholders, you'll drive business value while also producing great code. Internal applications are built using a highly scalable microservice architecture that is deployed via containers to our cloud hosted Kubernetes environments. Key technologies in this framework include: OpenAPI, Kafka, Terraform, Docker, AWS, .NET Core in C#, Python, Snowflake and Tableau.

You will be expected to take ownership of projects and identify business design gaps with Blackstone business analysts. You’ll tackle a variety of problems from scaling out infrastructure to promoting business efficiency through automating contract creation. 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:

• Drive the modernization of one or more BXTI application platforms, using cutting edge technology
• Build, maintain and integrate web applications and micro-services, on a variety of platforms
• Use modern software development methodologies and tools like JIRA to manage and deliver projects
• Follow scalable architectural practices to build fault tolerant distributed systems
• Leverage Kafka for messaging
• Write automated unit, integration, and deployment tests
• Develop software defined infrastructure
• Design data models and persist data to MySQL and Snowflake
• Automate deployments in coordination with Platform and DevOps engineers
• Identify opportunities to automate away repetitive tasks
• Lead technical design and code reviews to drive projects towards the best results
• Promote, implement, and evolve development best practices

Qualifications:

• Desire to learn and adapt to new technologies
• Self-starting, entrepreneurial attitude
• Strong object-oriented programming experience in any language
• Possess SQL Server or other database technology
• An ability to drive your projects from inception to completion
• Willingness to teach, coach, and mentor others
• An ability to produce high quality code and solicit feedback
• Willingness to take a position and share views freely in a constructive and solution-based manner
• Experience in one or more of messaging, search, caching, automation and UI frameworks is a plus

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.

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).

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