Blackstone is the world’s largest alternative asset manager. 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 $1 trillion in assets under management include investment vehicles focused on private equity, real estate, public debt and equity, infrastructure, life sciences, 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 LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram.
Blackstone Technology & Innovations
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 the Senior Software Engineering Manager for Private Equity & Real Estate Technology, you will lead a dynamic team of full-stack engineers in designing, building, deploying, testing, and supporting applications and related services hosted on AWS. Collaborating with business stakeholders, you will drive business value while ensuring the delivery of high-quality code. You’ll tackle a variety of problems from scaling out infrastructure to promoting business efficiency through automating business processes. 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.
Our internal applications leverage a highly scalable microservices architecture deployed on cloud-hosted containerized environment. Key technologies in our stack include NextJS/React, FastAPI, Python, C#, Terraform, SQL, AWS ECS, AWS Lambda, AWS Step Function, AWS DynamoDB, AWS S3, CI/CD tooling (e.g., Jenkins), and data warehouse solutions like Snowflake.
Responsibilities
Technical Leadership: Lead and mentor a team of full-stack engineers, providing hands-on guidance and fostering a culture of technical excellence.
Architecture and Development: Collaborate with your team to design, build, and maintain applications using relevant technologies within our stack. Evolve and adopt technologies to help deliver business value in a secure, reliable, and scalable manner.
Cloud Expertise: Leverage your expertise in AWS services such as AWS Lambda, AWS Step Function, AWS DynamoDB, AWS S3, and Terraform to build and maintain scalable and resilient cloud-based solutions.
Data Warehousing: Work with data engineering teams to interface with data warehouse solutions like Snowflake for data analytics and reporting.
Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams both internally and externally, including product managers, designers, and QA engineers, and other stakeholders to ensure the successful delivery of projects.
Team Development: Provide coaching and mentoring to team members, fostering their professional growth and skill development.
Qualifications:
15+ years of senior software engineering experience, showcasing technical expertise, leadership, strategic vision, and successful project and team management.
Proven expertise in software engineering with a strong command of Fast API, Python, C#, SQL, and AWS services.
Deep understanding of data warehouse solutions, especially Snowflake, is a plus.
Proficiency in CI/CD tooling, particularly Jenkins, to enable efficient software development pipelines.
Previous experience with microservices architecture and serverless design principles.
Demonstrated exceptional leadership and communication skills, particularly in leading cross-functional teams in an agile environment.
Proven ability to partner effectively with business stakeholders to drive technology strategy and align it with organizational goals.
A self-starting, entrepreneurial attitude with a proven ability to quickly adapt to new technologies and industry trends.
A commitment to teaching, coaching, and mentoring team members, coupled with the ability to make substantial individual contributions.
A commitment to ensuring that the team consistently delivers high-quality code and facilitates effective communication and feedback within the team.
Ability to thrive in a dynamic environment, with demonstrated leadership experience in similar roles.
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.
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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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