Software Engineering

Goldman Sachs Bank AG; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global investment banking firm seeks an Associate / Vice President in Software Engineering to join their Asset & Wealth Management division in Birmingham. The role focuses on backend engineering to develop scalable solutions and streamline account onboarding processes. Candidates should possess a strong foundation in Java and experience with micro-services, along with excellent communication skills to collaborate with global teams. This position offers the chance to work within a dynamic environment and contribute towards innovative solutions in financial services.

Benefits

Healthcare & Medical Insurance

Competitive vacation policies

Financial support for higher education

On-site fitness centers

On-site child care centers

Qualifications

• Experience in Java, Spring & MongoDB.
• Familiarity with distributed services and the software development lifecycle.
• Ability to drive to goals with attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Develop digital solutions to onboard and manage client and account data.
• Work across micro-service development in Java.
• Collaborate with business partners to streamline workflows.

Skills

Java

Spring

MongoDB

Micro-services

DevOps Tools

Analytical Thinking

Problem-solving

Communication Skills

Team Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field

Tools

Gitlab

Job description

Asset & Wealth Management - Birmingham - Associate / Vice President - Software Engineering location_on Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom

Opportunity Overview sitemap_outline CORPORATE TITLE Associate language OFFICE LOCATION(S) Birmingham assignment JOB FUNCTION Software Engineering account_balance DIVISION Asset & Wealth Management

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.

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.

Asset & Wealth Management Division:

Across Asset and Wealth Management (AWM), Goldman Sachs helps empower clients and customers around the world reach their financial goals.

The Private Wealth management (PWM) business within Asset & Wealth Management division provides comprehensive Investment Management services and advice across a full range of asset classes for very high net worth individuals. PWM leverages a global technology platform offering, an integrated suite of tools, and applications to service clients. This platform helps realize a client's goals and objectives, develops, and implements an integrated wealth management plan and delivers first-class client service.

Across AWM, our growth is driven by a relentless focus on our people, our clients and leading-edge technology, data, and design.

Private Wealth Management

The Private Wealth Management (PWM) business provides end to end Investment Management services and advice across a large range of asset classes for high-net-worth individuals. PWM leverages a global technology platform offering, an integrated suite of tools, and applications to onboard clients. Our software helps realize a client's goals and objectives, develops, and implements an integrated wealth management plan and delivers first-class client service.

The successful candidate will join the global PWM Onboarding Engineering Team. We develop digital solutions to help onboard and manage client and account data. We work closely with our business partners to streamline business workflows and drive growth.

HOW YOU WILL FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL

This is a backend engineering role which will involve the candidate working across a variety of areas, primarily micro-service development in Java, Spring and interaction with MongoDB. It requires the candidate to be familiar with distributed services, testing, system monitoring and reporting, and the complete SDLC process. Any experience in application security will be preferred.

This role offers the opportunity to work with a best-in-class team of engineers building the next generation onboarding platform for PWM business. The team works directly with a variety of stakeholders, including product & operations teams, and partnering closely with engineering teams across the division to help in evolving the alternatives platform.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field
• Prior industry experiences developing in Java, Spring & Non-SQL technologies such as MongoDB
• Experience with micro-services, java deployments & devOps tools such as Gitlab
• Full understanding of software development lifecycle best practices
• An ability to drive to goals and milestones while valuing and maintaining a strong attention to detail
• Strong communication and documentation skills - both verbally and in writing to effectively interact with multiple people and global teams
• Excellent judgment, analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills
• Strong team player & experience working with global teams
• Self-motivated individual that possesses excellent time management and organizational skills

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.

We’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. Learn more: https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html

Goldman Sachs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veterans status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Healthcare & Medical Insurance

We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.

We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.

Financial Wellness & Retirement

We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.

Health Services

We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.

Fitness

To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).

Child Care & Family Care

We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.

Benefits at Goldman Sachs

Read more about the full suite of class-leading benefits our firm has to offer.