Vice President Software Engineer

What We Do

At Goldman Sachs, we connect people, capital and ideas to help solve problems for our clients. We are a leading global financial services firm providing investment banking, securities and investment management services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals.

Who are we

Goldman Sachs Engineers are innovators and problem-solvers, building solutions in risk management, big data, mobile and more. We look for creative collaborators who evolve, adapt to change and thrive in a fast-paced global environment. The Digital Client Experience teams in Asset Management provide clients with innovative and customer-centered financial products to drive transformative changes. We bring the best qualities of a technology player and combine that with the best attributes of a large bank. Our Digital teams comprise of three main businesses, underpinned by engineering, product operations, security and risk management:

• Mosaic, an end-to-end open architecture technology platform and a digital product that provides trading, settlement, analytics, and reporting solutions to global liquidity clients. 

• GSAM.com: GSAM is the asset management arm of Goldman Sachs, which supervises more than $1.8 trillion in assets. Goldman Sachs Asset Management has been providing discretionary investment advisory services since 1988 and has investment professionals in all major financial centers around the world.

Our team of engineers builds solutions to the most complex problems. We develop cutting-edge digital platform and processes that form the core of our key business and enable several marketing and sales. We develop global web and mobile platform for Third Party Distribution and Institutional businesses. Team members have the opportunity to work at the forefront of technology innovation alongside industry leaders and make significant contributions to the field.

• Advisor Portal : An external Advisor Portal is a key component of SMA expansion program. The aim of this portal is to provide an all-digital, best in class experience to Advisors such as advisor onboarding, application for new SMAs, track accounts status, access advisor tools etc. Retail distribution requires scaling our client onboarding and portfolio management to support tens of thousands of clients through diligence, onboarding, and ongoing lifecycle events.  

Join us on our journey to deliver financial products and platforms that prioritize the customer and developer experience.

Digital Client Experience Engineering

Digital Client Experience Engineering teams build transformative cutting-edge digital platform and processes that form the core of our key business across liquidity, marketing and sales. Our growth is driven by a relentless focus on our people, our clients and customers, and leading-edge technology, data and design principals.

As an engineer on the Digital Client Experience team, you will  have the opportunity to work at the forefront of technology innovation alongside industry leaders and make significant contributions to the field.  You will be one the main drivers helping evolve our product strategy as we continue to ensure we are a market leader.  This will involve you being asked to come up with creative and commercial solutions to the various problems the team is tackling, and also for us to be able to lean on your leadership when executing those choices.

We are looking for engineers who can drive a whole feature from design to execution, as well as engineers who can deep dive why an API is taking half a second longer than it should.  Our team has a large variety of problems to tackle across the entire stack.

Responsibilities

As a  full stack developer you will

• Drive the design of critical components in the technology stack as well as oversee the implementation of new features, focusing on code quality, automation and testability. 
• Collaborate with a global cross functional team in building customer-centric products
• Contribute to the vision, understand our product roadmap and contribute to building an engineering culture within our global team. 
• Design flows and systems using cloud and on-prem technologies to ensure performance, longevity, and scalability of infrastructure.
• Contribute to SDLC documentation and guidance including templates, patterns, and controls.
• Perform code reviews and system design reviews and establish code quality standards and software best practices for a distributed systems architecture.
• Mentor and help develop more junior technical talents.
• Communicate with leadership, engineers, and business teams.

We are looking for someone with lots of energy that enjoys engineering challenges and has a passion to deliver high quality technology solutions and is able to operate in a highly fluid, rapidly changing environment.

Basic Qualifications

• 12 yrs of work experience.
• Experience with Java, JavaScript, and Spring Boot
• Bachelor’s degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Experience with design and implementation of low latency, high throughput, and fault-tolerant distributed systems.
• Experience with microservices architecture and API development.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Culture of excellence and collaboration
• Comfort with Agile operating models
• Energetic, self-directed, and self-motivated

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands on experience with Java and experience with any of the Rx* variants
• Experience with Kafka or similar messaging technologies
• Experience with microservice architectures 
• Experience with the Spring framework family
• Strong proficiency in: Distributed systems, Low-latency services, NoSQL and relational databases
• Experience with AWS
• Hands on experience with React and/or Angular
• Experience with external facing websites is a plus
• Experience working with clients / users a plus
• Experience with Adobe Experience Manager is a plus

Goldman Sachs Engineering Culture

At Goldman Sachs, our Engineers don’t just make things – we make things possible. Change the world by connecting people and capital with ideas. 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 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!