Software Engineer, Analyst - Alternative Asset Management Technology

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

• Use cloud native technologies and services to build scalable and secure applications
• Build, support, and integrate web applications, microservices, and data pipelines on a variety of platforms
• Adopt an inner-source approach and culture to collaborate more effectively
• Use modern software development methodologies and tools like JIRA to manage and deliver projects
• Follow scalable & secure architectural practices to build fault-tolerant distributed systems
• Write automated unit, integration, and deployment tests
• Use Terraform to create and update infrastructure
• Design data models and persist data to Snowflake, DynamoDB, and SQL databases
• 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

• 2+ years of experience in Software Engineering positions
• Desire to learn and adapt to new technologies
• Self-starting, entrepreneurial attitude
• Familiarity with developing applications in any one of the public cloud providers, preferably AWS
• Strong programming experience in any language (Python & Typescript preferred)
• Experience in web application development, including modern frontend frameworks, standard CMS patterns, and server-driven UIs
• Experience with database technology (relational and/or NoSQL)
• Experience driving your projects from inception to completion
• Willingness to teach, coach, and mentor others
• Willingness to take a position and share views freely in a constructive and solution-based manner
• Experience in one or more of messaging, caching, automation, agentic development, and UI frameworks is a plus

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Wordpress
• Knowledge of standard UI patterns & technologies, including CSS, cookies, OAuth, & Browser APIs
• Familiarity with common web marketing practices, such as analytics & A/B testing