Asset & Wealth Management

What We Do 

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, 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. 

Who We Look For 

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. 

Asset & Wealth Management 

The Asset & Wealth Management Division include Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM), Private Wealth Management (PWM) and Marcus Savings & Invest businesses (MS&I). We provide asset management, wealth management and banking expertise to consumers and institutions around the world. AWM partners with various teams across the firm to help individuals and institutions navigate changing markets and take control of their financial lives. 

Marcus Savings & Invest 

The firm’s Marcus Savings & Invest consumer businesses combine the strength and heritage of a 150-year-old financial institution with the agility and entrepreneurial spirit of a tech start-up. Today, we serve millions of customers across deposits and invest products. We use innovative design, data, engineering, and other core capabilities to provide customers with powerful tools and products that are grounded in value, transparency, and simplicity. 

Marcus Digital Platform 

The Marcus web and mobile apps are among the most used at the firm. Our digital platform provides the web, mobile, and user identity foundation – along with the underlying runtime environment – that powers modern web and mobile user experiences for millions of Marcus customers. 

In this role you will 

• Build highly available systems based on a microservices architecture
• Collaborate with Application Development Engineers, Technology Infrastructure teams and vendor teams to ensure that the solutions being implemented are scalable and highly automated, from infrastructure provisioning to code deployment, and support
• Automate activities and operations to make processes faster and more efficient
• Uplift existing services from the firm private cloud to the latest technologies on public cloud
• Troubleshoot problems encountered by both technology teams as well as end users of our applications

How you will fulfill your potential 

• You will develop financial products with direct impact on millions of consumers 
• Systems under your watch will be the primary sources of revenue for the organization 
• You build it: engineers are in control of decisions about systems they own from the first line of code written 
• You run it: engineers with assistance from global SRE guild are responsible for operation of systems they built 
• You own it: engineers do not wait for orders here. They do research, pitch projects. Great ideas are valued and implemented 
• Professional network: you will meet and collaborate with very influential people within the global organization and the entire industry 
• Every person is a first class member of the team irrespective of location. Same caliber of work is given to engineers located in US, Europe and Asia 

Skills and experience we are looking for 

• Minimum 2 years of relevant professional experience 
• B.S. or higher in Computer Science (or equivalent work experience) 
• Advanced experience in Systems Engineering 
• Experience with Software Development in a Linux environment, Shell scripting, Perl/Python 
• Understanding of the Agile development methodology
• Experience with any of these tools: Github, Terraform, Jenkins, Bamboo, BitBucket, Chef, Ansible, PowerShell
• Experience with deploying code to production systems and building out blue/green deployment infrastructure and accompanying automation techniques
• Energetic, self-directed and self-motivated, able to build and sustain long-term relationships with clients and colleagues 
• Intuitively coalesce towards problems with an open mind, within the context of a team
• Exceptional analytical skills, able to apply knowledge and experience in decision-making to arrive at creative and commercial solutions
• Strong desire to learn and contribute solutions and ideas to a broad team 
• Can manage multiple tasks and use sound judgment when prioritizing 
• Strong verbal and written communication skills 
  • Cloud infrastructure expertise, preferably AWS 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience with log aggregation (Splunk, ELK, etc)
• Experience managing Kafka as messaging middleware 
• Familiarity with high-scale NoSQL solutions like MongoDB
• Knowledge of compute, storage, firewalls and networking fundamentals 
• Expertise in delivering SOA or microservices architecture 
• Understanding of principles of Continuous Delivery, Devops and SRE 

Fintech experience will be a great asset