Asset & Wealth Management - London - Associate - Software Engineering

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. At Goldman Sachs, our culture is one of teamwork, innovation and meritocracy. We often say our people are our greatest asset and we take pride in supporting each colleague both professionally and personally. From collaborative workspaces and mindfulness classes to working from home and flexible work options, we offer our people the support they need to reach their goals in and outside the office.

Your Impact

The Asset Management (AM) Trading Engineering team is responsible for building and supporting a central function of the Asset and Wealth Management Division (AWM) with one of the top Asset managers in the world with over a 2.9 trillion dollars under management. The business manages money for large institutional investors and runs several mutual funds, hedge funds and ETFs spanning a broad spectrum of sophisticated securities and geographies. AM has an extensive and growing global presence with key offices in New York, London, The Hague, Tokyo, Singapore and Bengaluru.

The role offers a unique opportunity to work side-by-side with the Goldman Sachs Asset Management professionals and deliver the latest technology solutions while learning finance. The global team is approximately 65 developers working directly with the businesses based in all regions.

As an engineer in the AM Trading Engineering team, you will be working directly with traders, portfolio managers and desk heads as well as middle and back office and core engineering teams to digitize and automate trading flows as part of the AM business growth strategy.

How you will fulfill your potential

· Gain knowledge of the end – to – end life cycle for Trade Execution

· Full stack development with React, Java, object caches, KAFKA, AWS, NoSql data sources and event driven processes.

· Participate in the design, development, testing, roll out and support of our systems.

· Work closely with business users and other developers globally.

· Work in a highly innovative technical team with plenty of opportunity to improve and grow your technical skills.

Skills and experience we are looking for

· Fluency in Java. Other OO languages are a plus.

· Test-driven development e.g. Junit, Jbehave

· Experience with microservice based architecture

· Experience with MongoDB, Gemfire or NoSQL database is a plus.

· Financial knowledge, Trading systems and financial data flows is a plus

· Electronic trading/ FIX is a plus.ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS