Associate Data Platform Engineer - Core Engineering

Candidate Experience Site - Lateral; New York (NY); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Goldman Sachs in New York is seeking an Associate Software Engineer within the Core Data Architecture Engineering group to build scalable data pipelines and platforms. The role spans across a broad set of technologies and requires collaboration with global teams to ensure data integrity and performance.

The successful candidate will work on front-end UI tooling, batch and streaming data processes, and a variety of databases, contributing to high‑impact financial client solutions while growing

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or related technical discipline.
• 3-5 years’ experience working 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: Scala, Java, Python, 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).
• Knowledge and experience in distributed computing.
• Knowledge of SDLC and experience in working through entire life cycle of the project from start to end

Responsibilities

• This role is for a Senior Developer in large projects across a global team of data platform 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 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 calculations using 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 and enrichment and further distribute data to other systems.
• Oversee junior technical team members in all aspects of SDLC including design, code review and production migrations.

Skills

Scala

Java

Python

Spark

Linux

Shell scripting

TDD

Maven/Gradle/Ant

AWS

Databases

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or related technical discipline

Tools

Snowflake

Sybase IQ

HDFS

Job description

Goldman Sachs in New York is seeking an Associate Software Engineer within the Core Data Architecture Engineering group to build scalable data pipelines and platforms. The role spans across a broad set of technologies and requires collaboration with global teams to ensure data integrity and performance.

The successful candidate will work on front-end UI tooling, batch and streaming data processes, and a variety of databases, contributing to high‑impact financial client solutions while growing