Asset & Wealth Management - Software Engineer - Associate - New York

Goldman Sachs Group; New York (NY); On-site; USD 115,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Benefits package

Career development

Job summary

Goldman Sachs in New York is seeking a Software Engineer - Associate to help build a scalable digital platform for Asset & Wealth Management. You will work on front-end and back-end components, collaborate with product partners, and contribute to long-term performance improvements.

The role emphasizes full-stack development, cloud-native design on AWS, and strong ownership from architecture through deployment, with a focus on reliability and customer-centric solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience building scalable web platforms.
• Strong knowledge of modern front-end frameworks.
• Experience with distributed systems and data security.

Responsibilities

• Drive Solution Delivery for a digital platform.
• Design, develop, and maintain a scalable platform.
• Own features end-to-end from design to deployment.
• Optimize performance and reliability of applications.
• Collaborate with product partners and cross-functional teams.

Skills

Full-stack development

React/Angular

Node/Java/Python

AWS cloud

CI/CD

Problem solving

Tools

React

Angular

Node.js

Java

Python

AWS

Job description

Asset & Wealth Management - Software Engineer - Associate - New York

New York, NY, United States

Job Description

What We Do

At Goldman Sachs, we connect people, capital and ideas to help solve problems for our clients. We are a leading global financial services firm providing investment banking, securities and investment management services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals.

Who We Look For

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 and Wealth Management (AWM)

Bringing together traditional and alternative investments, we provide clients around the world with a dedicated partnership and focus on long-term performance. As the firm’s primary investment area, we provide investment and advisory services for some of the world’s leading pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, endowments, foundations, financial advisors and individuals, for which we oversee more than $3.5 trillion in assets under supervision. Working in a culture that values integrity and transparency, you will be part of a diverse team that is passionate about our craft, our clients, and building sustainable success. We are:

• Investors, spanning traditional and alternative markets offering products and services
• Advisors, understanding our clients’ priorities and poised to help provide investment advice and strategies that make sense for their portfolios
• Thought Leaders, providing timely insights across macro and secular themes to help inform our clients’ investment decisions
• Innovators, using our suite of digital solutions to help our clients address complex challenges and meet their financial goal

What You Will Do:

• Drive Solution Delivery: Be a key driver in delivering creative and commercially viable solutions for our digital platform, impacting how clients interact with our financial tools.
• Platform Development: Design, develop, and maintain a unified, scalable digital platform engineered to host a variety of critical financial applications.
• End-to-End Feature Ownership: Take full responsibility for features, from initial conceptual design and architectural planning through to development, testing, deployment, and ongoing support in a production environment.
• Performance Optimization: Continuously identify and implement strategies to enhance the performance, scalability, responsiveness, and reliability of the web platform and its applications.
• Full-Stack Engineering: Engage with and solve complex technical challenges across the entire technology stack, including modern front-end interfaces, robust back-end services, and data persistence layers.
• Collaborate & Influence: Work closely with product partners, senior stakeholders, and globally distributed cross-functional teams to define requirements, contribute to technical strategy, and deliver high-quality, customer-centric solutions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrates a strategic and analytical approach to problem solving, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, drive decisions, and lead initiatives end‑to‑end
• Exhibits exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with a proven ability to influence and collaborate effectively with senior stakeholders, product partners, and global teams
• Extensive experience designing, building, and scaling full‑stack applications, leveraging modern front‑end frameworks (React/Angular), robust back‑end technologies (Node/Java/Python), and relational and non‑relational data stores
• Deep understanding of the software development lifecycle, including architecture design, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing strategies, and operational excellence
• Strong hands‑on expertise in cloud‑native application development, with practical experience designing and operating systems on AWS
• Proven track record of leading and mentoring engineers while collaborating with globally distributed, cross‑functional teams to deliver resilient, high‑performance, customer‑centric platforms

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 .

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 2023. All rights reserved.

Goldman Sachs is an equal employment/affirmative action employer Female/Minority/Disability/Veteran/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity

Salary Range
The expected base salary for this New York, New York, United States-based position is $115000-$180000. 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 .

Job Info

• Job Identification 159475
• Job Category Associate
• Locations New York, NY, United States

Healthcare & Medical Services

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

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

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).

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

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