Vice President of Software Engineer, Preqin, a part of BlackRock
4+ days a week in office (Victoria, London)
Data and insights provider for the alternative assets market.
Be an early applicant
Data and insights provider for the alternative assets market.
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
4+ days a week in office (Victoria, London)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help more and more people experience financial well-being. This mission would not be possible without our smartest investment – the one we make in our employees.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years’ experience in software engineering
- People management experience
- Strong technical ability across the full stack: Python, FastAPI, React and Typescript is a plus
- Experience with databases like Postgres and Snowflake
- Experience of working within cloud provider services – Azure or AWS and utilization of infrastructure as code
- You have driven technical solution design, taking the balance of engineering quality, testing, scalability and security into consideration
- Experience with AI-related projects/products
- Knowledge of Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and Kubernetes
What the job involves
- Develop workflows that seamlessly combine AI/ML with human expertise to accelerate data collection and improve decision-making processes.
- Prioritize work based on data-driven insights and outcome-based goals in collaboration with stakeholders
- Design and implementation of scalable, reliable data pipelines that ingest, process, and deliver high quality data to downstream applications and analytics platforms
- Work closely with engineering teams across the business, ensuring the best technical solutions are adopted, and elevate development standards through knowledge sharing and best practices
- Collaborate across engineering, product, and data scientist teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions and ensuring our data assets are organized and accessible
- Mentor and guide team members, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and open communication
- Actively participate in technical discussions about new product directions, data modelling, and architectural decisions, ensuring our technology platform remains extensible
- Lead an engineering pod using strong leadership and influence skills
- Manage of a team of junior and mid-level engineers, supporting their careers and growth
Application process
- HR Screen (30 mins)
- Pair Programming (1 hour)
- System Design (1 hour)
- Cultural Interview (1 hour)
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Preqin is a London-based investment data company empowering the alternative asset market with essential data and insights. Supporting customers throughout the entire investment lifecycle, Preqin provides critical information leading to analytical solutions. Its customers use Preqin's vast database for due diligence, benchmark performance, market research and investment opportunity analysis.
Private markets are the fastest-growing sector in asset management, and by 2030, alternative assets are predicted to reach a valuation of nearly $30 trillion. Preqin has produced advanced methods of collecting private data for 20 years. Its products allow a customer base of over 200,000 professionals to streamline how they raise capital, source deals and investments, understand performance, and stay informed.
Recognising its value, BlackRock acquired Preqin in 2025, empowering both to strengthen access to the private markets. Preqin is working with software providers, world-renowned institutions, and industry associations around the globe to build innovative products, tools, and research that help connect data to critical decisions. It's had a successful history and, now partnered with BlackRock, will look to continue on a strong growth path ahead.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Challenging work
"At Preqin, the work experience is marked by an high level of challenge and intellectual stimulation. The projects I've undertaken have been among..."
Company benefits
- Hybrid workplace & unlimited holiday allowance
- Parental leave: maternity & paternity leave policies
- Pension/retirement contributions: contributions are matched up to 14%, with only a 4% personal contribution needed
- Full medical insurance for you and your dependents, includes cover on pre-existing conditions.
- Annual health assessment
- Medicash and Dental Cover options
- Discounted gym membership
- Access to discount & reward programs
- Family forming benefit, to help you start a family on your terms.
Company values
- We are a fiduciary to our clients. This is the bedrock of our identity; it reflects our integrity and the unbiased advice we give our clients.
- We are One BlackRock. We work collaboratively to create the best outcomes for our clients, our firm and the communities where we operate.
- We are passionate about performance. We are relentless in innovating and finding better ways to serve our clients and improve our firm.
- We take emotional ownership. We have a deep sense of responsibility to our clients and to each other.
- We are committed to a better future. We are long-term thinkers, focused on helping people build a better tomorrow.
Company HQ
Westminster, London, UK
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