Investment Banking, Syndicate Engineering, Java Full Stack Developer, VP, NYC

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.

Syndicate Engineering is a front office facing team and part of the Investment Banking Division, building business critical platforms used to execute new issue transactions such as IPOs and Bond offerings. Our platforms are used throughout all stages of deal execution including investor indication capture, book building, trade booking, risk management and reporting. 

Your Accountability & Impact

We are looking for a creative, innovative, enthusiastic and assertive individual to provide technical leadership to the team in New York and beyond, and undertake development across all tiers of our business-facing systems. Your responsibilities will include:

• Accountable for leading a full- stack development team within Global Banking and Markets division. Overseeing the design, development and delivery of scalable, high-performance applications, while ensuring compliance with best practices, meeting project timelines and driving technical innovation throughout the development lifecycle.
• Architect and build robust, scalable solutions for financial applications and leverage technology stack that includes Java, Spring, Dropwizard, Hibernate, Apache Camel, Python, Sybase, MongoDB, JavaScript & React on Microservices architectures.
• Lead by example and will be expected to spend at least 80% of your time writing code.
• Leverage agile methodologies and be responsible for collaborating with Program managers, UX and other stakeholders to deliver high-quality products on time.
• Work with the business to transform/digitise/automate investment banking deal-related activities. Syndicate Engineering is performing large-scale upgrades of our existing application suite as well as contributing to broader data pipeline initiatives; we seek motivated and capable engineers to help us drive through this transformation.
• Implement best practices such as Test-Driven Development (TDD) and ensure high-quality coding standards through unit and integration tests. We value code reviews, TDD, metrics; quality is paramount!
• Ensure that engineering solutions meet performance, security and scalability requirements in a fast-paced environment.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring junior engineers, guiding them on best practices and efficient problem-solving techniques.
• We encourage candidates to bring new ideas and technologies to the table. Our goal is to foster innovation!

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE WE ARE LOOKING FOR
 

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer science or equivalent
• 8+ years hands-on development experience having a successful track-record of delivering quality code
• Recent hands-on experience with Java, RESTful services, Spring, Hibernate, ReactJS (or other UI frameworks) in a test-driven environment
• Exposure to SQL/NoSQL database environment
• Experience with building and maintaining a micro-service based distributed architecture
• Experience in implementing automated tests through test driven development
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• Leadership skills, including team management, project delivery and stakeholder management

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with building end-to-end testing frameworks for distributed systems
• Experience using Agile methodologies
• Ability to design and build solutions using common Enterprise Integration Patterns
• Experience with Apache Camel, Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ (or other event-based messaging) and Dropwizard
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as code tools like terraform, CloudFormation etc.