Software Engineer - Global Banking & Markets - Associate - London

NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association); London; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job description

The CCR Engineering group is responsible for enhancing the way the firm measures, manages, and supervises counterparty credit risk by improving first line-of-defense counterparty data repositories and analytical tooling to ensure comprehensive and timely risk identification, measurement, monitoring and controls. We develop stress testing methodologies to systematically capture tail, concentration and liquidation risks across Global Banking & Markets counterparty portfolios, and build a consolidated risk management interface that houses curated datasets from across the firm that are enriched with enterprise reference data. We aim to provide a unified platform facilitating prime and counterparty risk management, with self-service access to data sets to enable adhoc queries, filters, aggregations and management reporting capabilities to streamline stressed client management and increase the efficiency of a risk management response in times of market volatility.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Software engineers primarily focus on software design and development. This is meant to cover most programming positions in Engineering, and include positions that were previously considered business software engineers, platform engineers, and quality assurance engineers. Combine the best open source software, databases, cloud solutions, and programming languages, to solve problems and provide accurate, complex, scalable applications that help our business and clients gain new insights.

As a software engineer, you are the change agents that transform Goldman Sachs by applying your technical know-how. Be a part of our embedded engineering teams, that work as a unit with our business partners. Collaborate with trading, sales, asset management, banking, finance and others, to build and automate solutions to keep our firm's position on the cutting edge. Or, join our core engineering teams, and elevate all of our businesses by providing reliable, scalable platforms for data engineering, machine learning, networking, developer tooling, collaboration and more.

Innovate with UI/UX designers, data scientists, cloud engineers, and more in a collaborative, agile environment where your enthusiasm to take on new problems and learn will have an immediate impact.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree or relevant work experience in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or related technical discipline.
• Excellent object oriented or functional analysis and design skills.
• Knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to solve problems and apply analysis to make data driven decisions.
• Comfortable multi-tasking, managing multiple stakeholders and working as part of a global team.
• Can apply an entrepreneurial approach and passion to problem solving and product development.
• 2 - 5 years of software development experience.

Expert Knowledge in One Or More Of

• Programming in a compiled language such as Java, or C++ or an interpreted language such as Python and experience with concurrency and memory management.
• Responsive web development, with professional React/Angular/Redux experience and advanced JavaScript proficiency.
• NoSQL databases such as MongoDb and Elastic Search.
• Designing enterprise-level applications, or analyzing raw data sets, using Snowflake.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge or interest in trading technologies in the front-office of a trading organization.
• B.S. or M.S. Computer Science or Related field.