AWM - London - Vice President - Software Engineer

at  Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs Asset Management – Alternatives Engineering (Private Side) – Investment Servicing:
Founded over 35 years ago to help provide capital solutions to businesses around the world, Goldman Sachs’ alternative investment platform (sitting within GS Asset Management) manages over $400bn in assets across private equity, growth, credit, real estate assets, secondaries, and liquid alternatives strategies. We continue to partner with leading companies, properties, and asset managers globally, leveraging our expertise across capital markets, investment banking, and asset management to engineer solutions that drive growth and generate strong returns for our investors.
AM Alternatives Engineering is a core and critical part of the wider private-side alternative investment platform, working in partnership with investors to build robust, scalable technology platforms, and data driven investing capabilities to enhance the platform’s ability to deliver class-leading returns to clients on a global scale. We collaborate closely to drive growth, value creation, and efficiencies through automation, digitization, and quantitative analytics across the full investment, fund, and client life cycle.
Investment Servicing focus on building platforms to capture and manage our investments across an exceptionally diverse product set with complex funding structures. Our new platforms focus on streamlined, systematic, low touch, and controlled designs with the ability to scale across a multi-billion-dollar global portfolio with highly-bespoke transaction execution and asset servicing. We work with a diverse set of users, data consumers, and stakeholders, including investment professionals across all sleeves, traders, cross-sleeve management and operational teams, and the control-side of the firm.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

If you enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, are passionate about producing highly impactful commercial solutions, and collaborating with other driven colleagues, then this is the role for you.
At Goldman Sachs, our culture is one of teamwork, innovation, and meritocracy. Our people are our greatest asset and we take pride in supporting each colleague both professionally and personally.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or other related STEM subjects
• 6+ years of experience working as a full-time software developer
• Experience leading projects and collaborating closely with business partners to determine roadmap, prioritisation and execution plan
• Experience managing/coaching junior engineers
• Excellent programming and software design skills in at least one object orientated programming language
• Experience with relational and/or non-relational database technologies
• Ideally experience building interactive web applications with React or Angular, and an interest in adopting new technologies (e.g. AWS)
• Pro-active attitude to problem solving, personal sense of ownership and responsibility, collaborative team-player, and a strong growth mind-set
• Comfortable multi-tasking, managing multiple stakeholders, and working as part of a global team
• Proven strong communication and interpersonal ability, with an ability to present complex technical ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Interest in finance (pre-existing finance knowledge is a plus, but not required)

Please refer the Job description for details