The Core Engineering-New York-Associate-Software Engineering

Candidate Experience Site - Lateral; New York (NY); On-site; USD 115,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Goldman Sachs is seeking an Associate Software Engineer to contribute to a high‑scale risk analytics platform in New York. You will work across diverse technologies to keep the system efficient and accurate, applying Java/Scala/Python, distributed computing, and data visualization tools.

You will collaborate with a global team of engineers and risk managers, tune performance, and help deliver reliable risk outputs for hierarchy and reporting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or related technical discipline.
• 3-5 years’ experience in risk technology or financial institutions.
• Experience with credit risk management concepts and regulatory deliverables.
• Strong software development fundamentals and data structures.

Responsibilities

• Tune performance of risk calculation applications for memory and CPU efficiency.
• Build reporting for risk metrics using SQL and Tableau.
• Develop software across Snowflake, Sybase IQ and distributed Hadoop ecosystems.
• Collaborate with global teams and interact with business users to resolve issues.
• Oversee SDLC activities including design reviews and production migrations.

Skills

Scala

Java

Python

Spark

Linux

Shell scripting

TDD

Maven/Gradle/Ant

Airflow

SQL

Tableau

Slang/SECDB

Snowflake

HDFS

DASK

Distributed computing

Education

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

Tools

Snowflake

Sybase IQ

HDFS

S3

Tableau

Airflow

Job description

The Core Engineering-New York-Associate-Software Engineering

New York, NY, United States

Job Description

To ensure uncompromising accuracy and timeliness in the delivery of critical risk metrics that support Goldman Sachs’ decision making process, our data platform is continuously growing and evolving. Capital Risk Engineering combines the principles of Computer Science, Mathematics and Finance to produce large scale, computationally intensive calculations of risk Goldman Sachs faces with each business transaction we engage in. Capital Risk Engineering 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 Risk Engineering organization, you will have the opportunity to impact one or more aspects of risk management. 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, Cloud computing, HDFS, Spark, S3, ReactJS, Sybase IQ, Snowflake, Tableau among many others). A glimpse of the interesting problems that we engineer solutions for, include acquiring high quality data, storing it, performing risk computations in limited amount of time using distributed computing, and making data available to enable actionable risk insights through analytical and response user interfaces.

How You Will Fulfill Your Potential

This role is for a Senior Developer in large projects across a global team of developers and risk managers

You will apply your prior experience and expertise of working in credit risk domain 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.

Perform statistical analyses to identify trends and exceptions related Market Risk metrics.

Build internal and external reporting for the output of risk metric calculation using data extraction tools, such as SQL, and data visualization tools, such as Tableau.

Utilize web development technologies to facilitate application development for front end UI used for risk management actions

Develop software for calculations using databases like Snowflake, Sybase IQ and distributed HDFS systems.

Interact with business users for resolving issues with applications.

Design and support batch processes using scheduling infrastructure for calculation and distributing data to 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 risk technology teams in a large investment or retail bank, or a comparable financial institution.

Experience in credit risk management functions and processes, knowledge of major regulatory deliverables for credit risk and expertise in related technology is required

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)

Experience with one or more major relational / object databases.

Experience in working with process scheduling platforms like Apache Airflow.

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 – parallel computation on a single machine like DASK, Distributed processing on Public Cloud.

Knowledge of SDLC and experience in working through entire life cycle of the project from start to end

Salary Range

The expected base salary for this New York, NY, 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 availableto 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 183229
• 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.

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