Wealth Management-Vice President-Front-End Software Engineering

Front-End Software Engineer Vice President:

Wealth Management

Across Wealth Management, Goldman Sachs helps empower clients and customers around the world to reach their financial goals. Our advisor-led wealth management businesses provide financial planning, investment management, banking and comprehensive advice to a wide range of clients, including ultra-high net worth and high net worth individuals, as well as family offices, foundations and endowments, and corporations and their employees. Our consumer business provides digital solutions for customers to better spend, borrow, invest, and save. Across Wealth Management, our growth is driven by a relentless focus on our people, our clients and customers, and leading-edge technology, data and design.

GS Ayco Engineering

Goldman Sachs Ayco partners with Fortune 1000 companies to design and implement tailored financial planning programs for their workforce providing both financial services to executives and financial wellness to all other employees. Ayco believes companies best serve their stakeholders and the greater economy when their employees' financial lives are clear, understood and in their control. Ayco advisors and technical specialists help clients achieve their personal financial goals through education and guided implementation across seven key financial disciplines, including employee benefit planning, insurance and tax preparation

Our engineers are innovators and problem-solvers, building solutions in client experience, mobile, data, and many financial services domains. We look for creative collaborators who evolve, adapt to change and thrive in a fast-paced global environment.  We develop cutting-edge systems that solve complex problems and form the core of our business.  Team members have the opportunity to work at the forefront of technology innovation alongside industry leaders and make significant contributions to the field.

You will:

• Collaborate with globally-located cross functional team in building customer-centric products
• Develop, plan for, and lead team to execute on clearly defined software functionality aligned with identified business objectives
• Lead and mentor junior members of the team
• Interact with and influence key/internal stakeholders
• Follow and establish standard software development guidelines and best practices
• Analyze existing software implementations to identify areas of improvement and provide estimates for implementing new features
• Manage multiple tasks and use sound judgment when prioritizing
• Have Exceptional analytical skills, able to apply knowledge and experience in decision-making to arrive at creative and commercial solutions
• Possess a strong desire to learn and contribute solutions and ideas to a broad team

You are:

• Energetic, self-directed and self-motivated, able to build and sustain long-term relationships with clients and colleagues
• Open minded when approaching problem solving within the context of a team
• Analytical, with an ability to apply knowledge and experience in decision-making to arrive at well engineered solutions

Basic Qualifications

• Degree in computer science or engineering, or equivalent industry experience
• 6+ years hands-on experience building UI components or interactions using JS
• Knowledge of front-end Web development, with specific experience executing sophisticated visual designs and interactions
• Expertise in React JS, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript/Typescript
• Experienced in testing framework like jest, enzyme and built tools using npm, yarn
• Experienced in modern JavaScript, front-end frameworks, and preprocessors (React, Redux, babel, Typescript) particularly contributing to a large codebase supporting multiple complex websites and/or webapps
• Experienced building highly secured applications and aware of secure coding standards.
• Experience integrating with RESTful Services and APIs
• Knowledge of single page application, micro-frontend architecture & MVC pattern
• Demonstrated knowledge of high level web architecture, Akamai / CDN caching, usage of Chrome dev tools and nuances of various browsers a big plus
• An appreciation of design and the ability to asses technical feasibility of UX/UI
• Experience translating UX/UI design into functional components
• Impeccable attention to detail, with a particular eye towards executing new functionality against an existing set of technical standards and within a design's visual grammar
• Experience working with a variety of technical and non-technical stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge or experience in Apollo GraphQL, NodeJS, NextJs
• Experience using UX/UI tools like Figma, Invision

About Goldman Sachs

At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world. 

We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers. 

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