Lead Software Engineer, Preqin, a part of BlackRock
Product
2+ days a week in office (Victoria)
Data and insights provider for the alternative assets market.
Open for applications
Data and insights provider for the alternative assets market.
1001+ employees
Open for applications
2+ days a week in office (Victoria)
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
- You have strong leadership skills that enable you to lead and motivate a team through influence
- You possess strong technical ability across the fullstack: React and any typed backend programming language
- You have driven technical solution design, taking the balance of engineering quality, testing, scalability and security into consideration
- You are customer obsessed! You are comfortable speaking to customers and clients to understand their needs and are energised about working in a continuous discovery environment, constantly listening, iterating, refining and adapting
- You have deep knowledge and experience of working within cloud provider services - AWS is preferred, and utilisation of infrastructure as code
- You have implemented (or have experience using) Continuous Delivery pipelines for frequent live deployments, developing effective automated tests to ensure confidence
- You have driven automation testing across unit, integration, browser and contract tests to create confidence in our solutions and services
- You are value driven – the value of what we deliver is at the forefront of your mind and you use metrics and data to inform this
- You’re curious; willing to learn about new technologies, ways of working and acquire new skills in a truly “agile” mindset
What the job involves
- Lead an engineering pod using strong leadership and influence skills. While the role does not have people leadership responsibility, you’ll work closely with the Engineering Manager to ensure your pod is high performing
- Champion a curious and diligent engineering mindset to enhance our platform capabilities
- Work in partnership with Product to discover customer needs and play a leading role in ideation
- Build performant and reliable backend services and data processes on AWS
- Create accessible and powerful front-end web experiences for our customers
- Drive an automation testing mindset within the team, striking the balance between quality and delivery and reducing the dependency on manual testing
- Execute your ability to translate complex ideas into understandable language for your non-technical colleagues across marketing, design and sales
- Be instrumental to continuously improving our working environment, teams, product quality, and yourself
Application process
- Recruitment Screen (30 mins)
- Manager Screen (30 mins)
- Technical Assessment (1.5 hours)
- Cultural Assessment (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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