Who We Look For:
This Associate Software Engineer role is for a professional who is passionate about bringing business impact through digital transformation and deployment of scalable and reliable software solutions. The CF&O divisions have a large footprint of software applications to ensure the firm complies with the controls set forth in its policies and risk appetite, meet its regulatory obligations, and to protect the firm’s reputation. To meet the demand of the business, driven by the size and complexity of the entire firm, the candidate will have the mandate to continuously increase the level of automation and to modernize and consolidate our software stacks. In addition, data is at the center of what we do. The successful candidate will have demonstrated experiences in and a passion for solving critical problems related to data modelling and data curation including data quality, warehousing, and analytics.
How You Will Fulfill Your Potential:
- Work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment that provides exposure to all areas of Finance
- Build strong relationships with business partners
- Understand business needs, facilitating and developing process workflow, data requirements, and specifications required to support implementation
- Develop technical specifications, high level/detailed design, testing strategies, and implementation plans from business requirements
- Manage end-to-end systems development cycle from requirements analysis, coding, testing, UAT and maintenance
- Exploring new and emerging technologies as needed by the project
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline
- 3+ years of relevant experience in software development, including a clear understanding of data structures, algorithms, software design, core programming concepts and experience with continuous delivery and deployment
- Excellent communicator who is comfortable engaging stakeholders, both verbally and written
- A strong problem solver, organized and able to work in a fast-paced environment with delivery focus as part of a global team
- Preferably experienced managing small to mid-size teams
- Strong programming experience in at least one compiled language (e.g. Java, C++)
- Full Stack experience with industry standard frameworks and tools (e.g. React, SpringBoot, DropWizard, Maven, Web/RESTful service development)
- Knowledge of relational and columnar SQL databases, including database design
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience working in the financial services domain delivering software to front-office users or Controllers/Finance/Accounting teams
- Experience in delivering solutions built on cloud-based, large-scale data analytics platforms (e.g. Databricks, Snowflake)
- Experience working with vendor or in-house data catalog platforms (e.g. Unity Catalog, Open Catalog, Apache Polaris)
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline
- 3+ years of relevant software development experience, including data structures, algorithms, and software design
- Experience with continuous delivery and deployment
- Excellent verbal and written communication with stakeholders
- Strong problem solving, organization, and ability to work in fast-paced global teams
- Preferably experienced managing small to mid-size teams
- Strong programming experience in at least one compiled language (e.g. Java, C++)
- Full Stack experience with frameworks/tools (e.g. React, SpringBoot, DropWizard, Maven, Web/RESTful service development)
- Knowledge of relational and columnar SQL databases, including database design
- Experience in financial services domain delivering software to front-office or finance teams
- Experience with cloud-based large-scale data analytics platforms (e.g. Databricks, Snowflake)
- Experience with data catalog platforms (e.g. Unity Catalog, Open Catalog, Apache Polaris)
Goldman Sachs Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Goldman Sachs and has not been reviewed or approved by Goldman Sachs.
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Healthcare Strength — Coverage includes medical, dental, vision, disability, life and accident insurance, with multiple plan options and most premiums subsidized; coverage often starts on day one. Wellness resources, on-site health centers in some locations, and EAP access reinforce the depth of health support.
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Parental & Family Support — Family care includes on-site childcare in some offices, expectant parent resources, and transitional programs for returning parents. Feedback suggests parental leave is very generous, with reports of around 20 weeks paid leave and stipends for adoption, surrogacy, and fertility-related services.
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Retirement Support — The firm provides a 401(k) plan with employer matching contributions and broad financial education to help employees plan for retirement. Resources also support saving for education and preparing for unexpected events.
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What We Do
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