The Core Engineering- Software Engineering - Associate - Dallas

To ensure uncompromising accuracy and timeliness in the delivery of firmwide metrics and reporting that support Goldman Sachs' decision making process, our Metrics and Analytics Platform Engineering team is continuously growing and evolving. Platform Engineering combines the principles of Computer Science and Software Engineering to build and operate applications that process large volume of data from multiple sources across the firm and ensure its integrity and availability for use across business-critical applications. Platform Engineering team has an opportunity for an Associate level Software Engineer to work across a broad range of applications and extremely diverse set of technologies to keep the platform operating at peak efficiency.

As an Engineer in the organization, you will work with a global team of talented engineers to drive the build & adoption of common tools, platforms, and applications. The team builds solutions that are offered as a software product or as a hosted service. We are a dynamic team of talented developers and architects who partner with business areas and other technology teams to deliver high profile projects using a raft of technologies that are fit for purpose (Java, Python, Cloud computing, Spark, S3, ReactJS, Snowflake among many others). A glimpse of the interesting problems that we engineer solutions for, include building robust applications, acquiring high quality data, storing it, enriching it, ensuring integrity, and transforming it into a consumable model for use by diverse consumer types, including the new generation of AI use cases and MCP tools.

How You Will Fulfill Your Potential

• This role is for a Senior Developer in large projects across a global team of application engineers
• You will apply your prior experience and expertise at a large bank or financial institution, and ramp up very quickly to work with the global team
• Performance tune applications to improve memory and CPU utilization.
• You will facilitate robust utilization of the firm's application and data platform capabilities by the different functional domains as a SME
• Utilize web development technologies to facilitate application development for front end UI used for firm wide usecases
• Develop software for applications that interact with databases like Snowflake, Sybase IQ and distributed HDFS systems.
• Interact with business and engineering users to help resolve issues with applications.
• Design and support batch and streaming processes for data validation, enrichment, and integration with other systems.
• Oversee junior technical team members in all aspects of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including design, code review and production migrations.

Skills And Experience We Are Looking For

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or related technical discipline
• 3-5 years' experience working with technology teams in a large investment or retail bank, or a comparable financial institution.
• Experience in software development, including a clear understanding of data structures, algorithms, software design and core programming concepts
• Comfortable multi-tasking, managing multiple stakeholders and working as part of a team
• Comfortable with working with multiple programming languages, including learning proprietary software coding when required
• Technologies: Java, Python, Scala, Spark, Linux and shell scripting, TDD (JUnit), build tools (Maven/Gradle/Ant), AWS deployment stack
• Experience with one or more major relational / object databases.
• Should be ready to work in GS proprietary technology like Slang/SECDB
• An understanding of compute resources and the ability to interpret performance metrics (e.g., CPU, memory, threads, file handles).
• Familiarity with distributed computing concepts
• Knowledge of SDLC and experience in working through entire life cycle of the project from start to end

ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS

At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world. We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers.

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