Front End Engineering Manager, Software Engineering – AWT, Vice President

Overview

Lead a team of front-end and full-stack software engineers in Mumbai at BlackRock's Aladdin Wealth Tech organization, combining hands-on engineering with technical and people leadership.

What you'll do

• Lead and mentor a team of software engineers delivering front-end and full-stack capabilities, fostering strong engineering practices, learning, and growth.
• Partner with product, design, and quality assurance stakeholders to plan the roadmap, manage delivery, and align engineering priorities with product milestones.
• Provide hands-on engineering leadership across front-end and back-end development, including design, coding, testing, support, troubleshooting, and solutioning.
• Serve as a technical subject-matter expert, translating business requirements into solutions and adopting appropriate languages and frameworks as needed.
• Drive engineering quality through code reviews, timely feedback, continuous testing, debugging, performance optimization, and consistent application of development standards and processes.
• Lead effectively in a globally distributed environment, balancing engineering delivery with sound decision-making, organization, stakeholder management, and communication.
• Stay current with relevant engineering practices and emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), and apply them appropriately to improve product quality, reliability, and innovation.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• Substantial professional software-development experience (10+ years).
• Strong front-end engineering experience building client-facing applications using React or Angular, complemented by full-stack development capabilities.
• Proficiency/familiarity in Java and related frameworks such as Spring Boot and Hibernate, with strong knowledge of object-oriented development, algorithms, data structures, and software design patterns.
• Experience with modern software-engineering practices, including Git, Maven, unit and integration testing, mocking frameworks, code review, security, stability, and software-quality practices.
• Experience leading engineers and collaborating with product, design, quality assurance, and other stakeholders in a globally distributed environment, supported by strong communication, presentation, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with cloud services and technologies such as Open Container Initiative (OCI) container image packaging and runtime, enterprise-grade container orchestration platforms supporting declarative infrastructure and horizontal scaling, distributed event streaming and messaging platforms, and API gateway technologies.
• Financial-domain experience.

Details

• Location: Mumbai, India.
• Hybrid work model: at least 4 days in the office per week, with flexibility to work from home 1 day a week.