Job Description

Asset and Wealth Management Division - Engineering 

Goldman Sachs Quantitative Engineering is a leading developer of quantitative applications and cutting-edge systems to solve complex business problems. Working with the firm’s trading, operations, finance, sales, banking and investing businesses, engineers use their mathematical and scientific training to create financial products, advise clients on transactions, identify market opportunities, assist managing risks, and provide technical solutions to facilitate all business activities. 

Goldman Sachs Asset and Wealth Management Division (AWM) is one of the four key revenue generating Divisions of the Firm. AWM Alternatives is the private side of Asset Management and invests in a wide range of global asset classes including: Private Credit, Real Estate, Corporate Private Equity, Growth Equity and Infrastructure worldwide. The AM Private Alternatives Strategists collaborate with investing and finance professionals to create quantitative computer models and web applications to support all aspects of the investing and lending life cycle. We create quantitative models and develop software applications to help structure, value, hedge, and risk manage the investments in our portfolios, and applications as an interface to those models. The team proactively collaborates with colleagues globally to ensure that the best solutions are implemented. 

Your Impact 

Within Goldman Sachs Asset Management, quantitative engineers work in close collaboration with all parts of the business across asset classes, building products for portfolio, fund, deal, and budgeting analytics and models. 

We are interested in individuals who have strong coding skills with a focus on quality and a continued interest to learn about finance. As a member of our team, you will use your training in programming, mathematics, and logical thinking to construct applications that drive our success. Your talents for analysis and aptitude for innovation will define your contributions and enable you to find solutions to a broad range of problems, in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. 

 

Job Duties: 

• Utilize programming and analytical skills to architect and develop applications for AWM to translate business and technical requirements into well-designed applications.  
• Build platforms which facilitate portfolio management, risk management, and capital management functions for AWM. 
• Participate in the complete software life cycle using various Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) tools.  
• Help maintain to the reliability and quality of software through code reviews, testing, and other practices.
• Play a lead role in requirements gathering, design and implementation phases of significant systems.  
• Play a lead role in mentoring and technical bar raising across related teams
• Responsible for supporting systems including troubleshooting issues with end users and troubleshooting a wide array of legacy applications with limited documentation. 
• Develop and maintain relationships with business users and other internal clients. 
• Develop full stack applications using technologies like Kotlin, Typescript, ReactJS, and SpringBoot 
• Utilize relational and non-relational databases.  
• Must be willing to work with proprietary technologies. No knowledge of proprietary technologies is required pre-hire. 

Basic Qualifications 

• Strong engineering background with Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related technical discipline 
• Excellent programming and software design skills in object orientated programming languages and experience with at least one of the following: Java, Kotlin, Python, Javascript/Typescript, ReactJs, AngularJs 
• Pro-active attitude to problem solving, personal sense of ownership and responsibility, collaborative team-player, and a strong growth mindset 
• Experience working with design patterns, prototyping, full-stack and agile software development. 
• Experience with maintaining quality and reliable code bases by writing unit, integration, and feature tests. 
• Experience working with the entire software development life cycle, including requirements gathering, design, development, testing, deployment, and support. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Practical experience building software in a commercial environment or Masters in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical science discipline 

Salary Range

The expected base salary for this New York, New York, United States-based position is $150000-$250000. In addition, you may be eligible for a discretionary bonus if you are an active employee as of fiscal year-end.

Benefits

Goldman Sachs is committed to providing our people with valuable and competitive benefits and wellness offerings, as it is a core part of providing a strong overall employee experience. A summary of these offerings, which are generally available to active, non-temporary, full-time and part-time US employees who work at least 20 hours per week, can be found here.

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