The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc

Senior Software Engineer, Global Banking & Markets, Securities Settlement Engineering

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc$120K — $150K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience as a senior software engineer managing complex cloud-based systems.
  • Proficient in Java, experienced in building distributed systems and event-driven services.
  • Expertise in cloud-native environments using microservices and REST APIs on AWS.
  • Background in AI applications for software development like diagnostics and automation.
  • Strong testing background with modern frameworks emphasizing correct and reliable code.
  • In-depth understanding of distributed systems and their operational challenges in financial services.
  • Excellent communication skills to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and implement a cloud-native post-trade platform for improved performance.
  • Take end-to-end ownership of critical production services, from design to incident response.
  • Lead the transformation of existing systems to AWS/GCP with an emphasis on automation and validation.
  • Integrate AI-driven tooling into engineering workflows for enhanced efficiency and diagnostics.
  • Mentor engineers and set architectural standards across diverse coding practices.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate requirements into technological solutions.
  • Contribute to infrastructure and DevOps processes for production deployment and automation.

Benefits

  • Inclusive and collaborative work culture.
  • Opportunities for continuous professional growth and mentoring.
  • Innovative environment at the intersection of finance and technology.
  • Access to advanced tools and technologies, especially in cloud and AI.
  • Work on high-impact projects that are crucial to the firm's success.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Within the firm's Global Banking & Markets business, the Securities Settlement Engineering team operates at the intersection of finance and technology, implementing innovative solutions to enhance the post-trade processing landscape.

Our team is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining high-performance software solutions that facilitate the settlement of equities and fixed income instruments, processing millions of events and thousands of users daily. There is a current focus on migrating existing systems to a strategic platform, with a foundation built upon an event-sourcing architecture using public cloud and serverless solutions, to enhance the scalability and resilience of the settlement processes and guaranteeing capacity for future growth. Collaboration with various stakeholders, including trading desks, operations teams, and other Engineering groups, ensures that the systems meet the evolving needs of the business and integrate seamlessly with other platforms.

Our team primarily uses Java for software development, while also leveraging other languages, tools, and frameworks for specific tasks. We employ a microservices architecture and RESTful APIs to build modular and scalable systems and embrace DevOps practices to ensure continuous integration and delivery.

A global team located across seven regions, the Securities Settlement Engineering team fosters a collaborative and inclusive work environment, encouraging team members to share ideas and contribute to continuous improvement. Our work is critical to Goldman Sachs' success, as it ensures the efficient and accurate settlement of trades, helps the firm manage risk and comply with regulations, and establishes exceptional service for our clients.

Who We Look For

Goldman Sachs Engineers are at the forefront of innovation, driving solutions as creative collaborators in a fast-paced global environment. We seek individuals who evolve, adapt, and thrive on challenging problems.

We are seeking a senior engineer who can lead at the frontier of cloud-native financial systems and AI-driven engineering - someone who is energized by hard problems, brings deep technical credibility, and wants to define what the next generation of platforms looks like.

How You Will Fulfill Your Potential
  • Architect the future state. Lead the design and implementation of cloud-native post trade platform. Building systems that are correct, fast, and operationally excellent.
  • Own critical systems end-to-end. Take full ownership of production services from design through deployment and incident response. Being the person the team trusts to make the right call when it matters.
  • Drive the cloud migration. Own key workstreams in the transformation to AWS/GCP, ensuring automated reconciliation, incremental rollout, and rigorous dual-run validation.
  • Pioneer AI-driven engineering. Champion the use of AI agents and AI-enabled tooling across the team - for specification, implementation, testing, reconciliation analysis, and operational diagnostics. Help the team move from "AI-curious" to "AI-native."
  • Raise the technical bar. Guide architectural decisions across the polyglot codebase, review critical code, define data dependency and orchestration patterns, and mentor engineers who want to grow into senior technical leaders.
  • Partner across the firm. Work closely with business, risk, trading, and clearing teams to translate business requirements into technology-driven automation, intelligent tooling, and measurable operational improvements.
  • Shape infrastructure and DevOps. Contribute to CDK infrastructure stacks, CI/CD pipelines, container image pipelines, and multi-region deployment automation - because owning a service means owning how it gets to production.


Basic Qualifications
  • Proven track record as a senior software engineer with end-to-end ownership of complex, cloud-based production systems on AWS.
  • Deep hands-on experience in Java building distributed calculation engines and event-driven services; comfort working across a polyglot stack.
  • Experience designing and operating cloud-native platforms using microservices, gRPC/REST APIs, and managed AWS services (Fargate, Lambda, Step Functions, Aurora, ElastiCache, S3).
  • Demonstrated experience using AI agents and AI-based tooling for enterprise software development - code generation, automated analysis, diagnostics, or migration validation.
  • Strong testing discipline using modern frameworks and patterns, with an instinct for writing code that is correct by construction.
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems - data consistency, failure modes, observability, and the operational realities of running financial infrastructure at scale.
  • Exceptional communication skills and the ability to influence engineers, architects, and business stakeholders with clarity and conviction.
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.


Preferred Experience
  • AWS serverless and managed infrastructure: Fargate, Lambda, Step Functions, Aurora PostgreSQL, ElastiCache Redis, S3, EventBridge, CloudWatch.
  • AI-enhanced engineering workflows: building developer or operational tooling powered by AI for diagnostics, reconciliation, code generation, or automated validation.
  • Graph-based execution orchestration: DAG scheduling, topological sort, data dependency resolution with configurable wait, bypass, and fallback semantics.
  • Platform migration at scale: migrating monolithic on-premises systems to cloud-native architectures with incremental rollout, dual-run reconciliation, and zero-downtime cutover.
  • Infrastructure-as-code: AWS CDK (TypeScript) and DevOps practices for large-scale, multi-region platform deployments.
  • Modern build systems: polyglot monorepo tooling with remote execution, container image pipelines, and protobuf code generation.
  • Containerization and orchestration: Docker, Fargate task definitions, dual-mode services (one-shot compute + long-running daemon).
  • Financial domain expertise: Post-trade processing, or high-volume financial risk systems.
  • AI fluency: agentic AI workflows, prompt engineering and a point of view on how AI will reshape enterprise software engineering.

About The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. provides investment banking, securities, and investment management services, as well as financial services to corporations, financial institutions, governments, and high-net-worth individuals worldwide. Its Investment Banking segment offers financial advisory services, including advisory assignments concerning mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, corporate defense, risk management, and restructurings and spin-offs; and underwriting services comprising public offerings and private placements of a range of securities, loans, and other financial instruments, and derivative transactions. The company’s Institutional Client Services segment provides client execution services, such as fixed income, currency, and commodities client execution related to making markets in interest rate products, credit products, mortgages, currencies, and commodities; and equities related to making markets in equity products, as well as executes and clears institutional client transactions on stock, options, and futures exchanges. This segment also engages in the securities services business providing financing, securities lending, and other brokerage services to institutional clients, including hedge funds, mutual funds, pension funds, and foundations. Its Investing and Lending segment originates longer-term loans; and invests in debt securities, loans, public and private equity securities, real estate, consolidated investment entities, distressed assets, currencies, commodities, and power generation facilities. The company’s investment management segment provides investment products and services, as well as offers wealth advisory services, including portfolio management and financial counseling, and brokerage and other transaction services.

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Learn more about The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc
Size
45,100 employees
Market Cap
$115.8 billion
Industry
Net Income
$9.4 billion
Founded
1869
5 Year Trend
+11.3%
Revenue
$53.4 billion
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