BlackRock | New York, NY | Full-time ONSITE, VISA | Front-end Web Developer | React
We have a position available immediately to work on my team building a specific, revenue-generating product. We're applying BlackRock's sophisticated risk analytics, which are used to manage over $20 trillion of institutional money, to millions of individual investors' portfolios to help them and their Financial Advisors create better portfolios. This role will be focused immediately on our front-end web apps building out new features and better user experience in React framework. We're looking for someone who is really proficient in React and wants to work with and leverage modern tools and techniques to the fullest.
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Job Description and Responsibilities:
* Work beside Analytics and Product experts to build innovative analytics tools for users both inside and outside our firm.
* Architecting and developing web apps, prototypes, and proofs of concepts
* Demonstrate a passion for developing well architected, elegant web applications that delight users
* Help continually improve our application reliability, performance, and software infrastructure
* Beyond coding, a successful candidate will strive to learn the business context of their projects and users’ needs to quickly play a leading role in solving problems and driving decisions
Qualifications:
* Experience with React.js in building applications a must
* Very strong front-end web programming skills in JavaScript/ES6/HTML5/CSS
* Experience in at least one server-side language - Java, C++, Python, Ruby, Node.js
* Passion for agile, test-driven development, and automated testing
* Passion for user experience and a strong interest/demonstrated experience in design, across all devices
* Experience with Angular 2.0, AngularJS a plus
* Involvement/authoring of open source software a plus
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