GBM - Public Dept-Bengaluru-Vice President-Software Engineering

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is 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 high-net-worth individuals. The firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong and other major financial centers around the world. 

Founded in 1869, Goldman Sachs has long sustained a commitment to hiring and training outstanding leaders.  Our business principles are rooted in integrity, a commitment to excellence, innovation and teamwork.  These values enable us to execute successfully a business strategy that is focused on extraordinary client service and superior long-term financial performance for our shareholders. 

We conduct our business in increasingly complex markets. Our people must continually find new ways to provide access to capital, manage risk and provide investment opportunities for our clients to enable them to realize their goals.  We judge ourselves on our ability to help clients anticipate and respond to changing market conditions and to create opportunities that merit the trust they place in us.    

BUSINESS UNIT OVERVIEW 

This hiring is for IRP Technology team, which is part of Fixed Income Currencies & Commodities Technology group in India. IRP Technology team works closely with IRP Trading and Sales desks globally providing digital solution to business problems.

The India IRP Technology team is currently taking up initiatives for building new and innovative solutions in addition to re-engineering our existing trading systems and applications leveraging GenAI tools wherever relevant. We also have a deep pipeline of business driven project requests aimed at automating trading/sales workflows and increasing our competitive advantage with our clients.

RESPONSIBILITIES

We are looking for a Senior Software Developer who will play a key role in driving some of these transformational efforts from India. 

Strong communication skills and experience with AI tools are key, we expect you to constructively volunteer reasoned views and opinions in different team forums, both technically and also on how we’re performing as an Agile team.

Effectively meeting the demands of our challenging mandate requires a passion for learning as well as deep understanding and experience across a wide array of technical competencies. 

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s / Master’s degree in Computer Science or a closely related field with experience in software development, building applications in a commercial environment
• Good understanding of AI tools and how to use them to improve developer productivity, and also improve existing workflows
• A solid understanding of object orientated programming skills (Java, Python, C++; or other OO technology) 
• Strong problem solving skills including good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Energetic, self-directed, and self-motivated
• Experience collaborating in global teams and possesses strong interpersonal skills and ‘Client Touch’ 

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Strong experience in leveraging AI tools(including Agentic ones)
• Prior experience working on high availability, critical systems
• Familiarity with Git, awareness of CI/CD and other modern SDLC practice
• Experience in modern message oriented middleware, e.g. Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Competence across other key application tiers, i.e. you can write JS even if you mostly work in Java

DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS  

• You will work with some of the best minds in the industry and learn together as we embark on this initiative.
• You will get opportunity to step up and lead solutions.   
• You will also get opportunity to interact with trader / business in order to support / develop various business flows.
• There is also ample opportunity to understand various business flow across region and work on different stream