Lead Software Engineer, Preqin, a part of BlackRock
Product
£100-120k
3+ days a week in office
Data and insights provider for the alternative assets market.
Job no longer available
Data and insights provider for the alternative assets market.
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
£100-120k
3+ days a week in office
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 possess strong technical ability in .NET core or python and REACT JS
- You have commercial experience of working within cloud provider services - AWS is preferred
- You have deep knowledge of infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines (including secrets management) and container orchestration software such as Kubernetes
- 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
- Data literacy, product awareness, communication and initiative are important parts of your skillset, enabling you as an Engineer to help set the technical and data directions of our data collection and customer applications, while designing and implementing robust architecture
- You would be supporting your team to design, deliver and maintain a technology platform that is scalable, reliable, performant, and extensible
- You’ll develop new features while extending our current services and tooling to support new products and improvements
- You’ll actively take part in conversations about new product directions, technical and data architecture and software quality
- Reporting To: VP, Engineering, Engineering
- Champion a curious and diligent engineering mindset to enhance our platform capabilities
- Build efficient and reusable services within our AWS environment using Python, C#, .NET
- Work collaboratively in an Agile environment to troubleshoot and resolve complex problems
- 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
- Introduction Call
- 1st Stage Interview
- Technical Interview
- Final Interview
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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