Software Engineer - Associate

What We Do

At Goldman Sachs, our Engineers don’t just make things – we make things possible. Our software is paramount to connecting people and capital with ideas. We solve the most challenging and pressing engineering problems for our clients. Join our engineering teams that build massively scalable software and systems, architect low latency infrastructure solutions, proactively guard against cyber threats, and leverage machine learning alongside financial engineering to continuously turn data into action. Create new businesses, transform finance, and explore a world of opportunity at the speed of markets.Engineering, which is comprised of our Technology Division and Global Strategists’ groups, is at the critical center of our business, and our dynamic environment requires innovative strategic thinking and immediate, real solutions. Want to push the limit of digital possibilities? Start here.

Goldman Sachs Asset & Wealth Management:

As one of the world's leading asset managers, our mission is to help our clients achieve their investment goals. To best serve our clients' diverse and evolving needs, we have built our business to be global, broad and deep across asset classes, geographies and solutions. Goldman Sachs Asset & Wealth Management is one of the world's leading asset management institutions. AWM delivers innovative investment solutions managing close to Two Trillion US Dollars on a global, multi-product platform. In addition to traditional products (e.g. Equities, Fixed Income) our product offering also includes Hedge Funds, Private Equity, Fund of Funds, Quantitative Strategies, Fundamental Equity and a Multi-Asset Pension Solutions Business. Software is engineered in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, adapting to market and customer needs to deliver robust solutions in an ever-changing business environment. AM Data Engineering builds on top of cutting edge in-house and cloud platforms complimented with a strong focus on leveraging open source solutions.

Job Summary

Software engineers primarily focus on software design and development. This is meant to cover most programming positions in Engineering, and include positions that were previously considered business software engineers, platform engineers, and quality assurance engineers. Combine the best open source software, databases, cloud solutions, and programming languages, to solve problems and provide accurate, complex, scalable applications that help our business and clients gain new insights.

As a software engineer, you are the change agents that transform Goldman Sachs by applying your technical know-how. Be a part of our embedded engineering teams, that work as a unit with our business partners. Collaborate with trading, sales, asset management, banking, finance and others, to build and automate solutions to keep our firm’s position on the cutting edge. Or, join our core engineering teams, and elevate all of our businesses by providing reliable, scalable platforms for data engineering, machine learning, networking, developer tooling, collaboration and more.

Innovate with UI/UX designers, data scientists, cloud engineers, and more in a collaborative, agile environment where your enthusiasm to take on new problems and learn will have an immediate impact.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain software applications using Java, Spring Boot, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, MongoDB, and SQL.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather and analyze requirements, and translate them into technical solutions.
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code while adhering to coding standards and best practices.
• Conduct thorough testing, including unit testing with Jest and Enzyme, to ensure the reliability and performance of the applications.
• Participate in the software development life cycle (SDLC) from planning to deployment and post-launch support.
• Troubleshoot and debug issues, providing timely resolutions to ensure seamless operation of applications

Basic Skills:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Technical qualifications: Strong commercial experience in Java or Python, UI frameworks like Angular or React, Database knowledge
• Solid analytical skills and appreciation of technical risk
• Highly motivated, committed and capable of working to timelines
• Strong team working and communication skills are essential to manage the business interaction and the global nature of projects.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI).
• Experience with Kafka or similar messaging technologies.
• Good to have knowledge on Kubernetes
• A passion for application development best practices, TDD and clean code are a must.
• As the successful candidate will work across the stack, a technology agnostic approach is vital.

We are looking for candidate with 2 to 3 years’ experience

Salary Range
The expected base salary for this New York, New York, United States-based position is $115000-$180000. In addition, you may be eligible for a discretionary bonus if you are an active employee as of fiscal year-end.

Benefits
Goldman Sachs is committed to providing our people with valuable and competitive benefits and wellness offerings, as it is a core part of providing a strong overall employee experience. A summary of these offerings, which are generally available to active, non-temporary, full-time and part-time US employees who work at least 20 hours per week, can be found here.