The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc

Software Engineer, Global Banking & Markets, Commodity Trading & Sales Technology

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc$130K — $250K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Strong analytical and programming skills in any language.
  • 4+ years of programming experience.
  • Quick learner of new languages and technologies.
  • Strong object-oriented analysis and design skills.
  • Excellent communication skills for global audiences.
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities effectively.
  • Entrepreneurial mindset for problem solving and product development.

Responsibilities

  • Liaise with traders, salespeople, and engineers to gather development requirements.
  • Lead project execution to deliver solutions for complex business issues.
  • Gain experience in various technologies including Java, Python, and web technologies.
  • Learn about the Commodities trading business while developing engineering solutions.
  • Work with real-time cluster technologies and NoSQL data stores.

Benefits

  • Valuable and competitive benefits package.
  • Wellness offerings to support employee experience.
  • Core commitment to employee well-being.
Full Job Description
Job Description

The firm is seeking a dynamic, entrepreneurial developer to join the Commodities Technology team and play a key role in leading a range of development projects. The Commodities business is extremely focused on digitization, so this role will provide many challenging and rewarding opportunities for the successful candidate. The candidate will partner with engineers, traders, and salespeople to work on brand new projects focused on automation of sales and trading quoting, trade booking workflows, and data platform to systematically process data and share actionable insights to enable trading decisions. The candidate will directly experience their impact as they see the automation of the Commodities trading franchise through their work.

The ideal candidate will have experience and interest in leading execution of projects to build enterprise systems that are highly reliable and require low maintenance. The opportunity will appeal to motivated individuals who want to work directly with the trading desks as well as develop strong technical skills while learning about the trading business.

Key Responsibilities
  • Liaise with traders, salespeople, and engineers to determine development requirements and lead project execution to deliver solutions to complex business problems.
  • Gain experience in a variety of technologies, including Java, Python, Slang / SecDB (GS proprietary language), web technologies (JavaScript, Angular etc.), and real-time cluster technologies like SPARK and NoSQL data stores like MongoDB.
  • Fantastic opportunity to learn about the Commodities trading businesses, while developing engineering solutions to solve business problems.


Basic Qualifications
  • Strong analytical and programming skills in any language.
  • 4+ years of experience with programming in any language.
  • Ability to quickly learn new languages and technologies.
  • Strong object-oriented analysis and design skills.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills including experience speaking to global engineering and business audience.
  • Comfort with multi-tasking, managing multiple stakeholders and working as a part of a global team.
  • Ability to apply an entrepreneurial approach and passion to problem solving, product development and support.


Preferred Qualifications
  • Knowledge of trading technologies in the front-office of a trading organization.
  • Background in finance.


Salary Range
The expected base salary for this New York, New York, United States-based position is $130,000-$250,000. 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.

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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