Core Engineering - Senior Software Engineer - Client Identities - Birmingha

at  Goldman Sachs

THE TEAM

The Client Identities team is responsible for designing, developing and implementing strategic solutions that enable a secure and seamless sign-in experience for the firm’s clients; the current suite is a combination of on-premises and cloud-based offerings.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Proficiency in designing, developing and testing enterprise level software applications with a focus on RESTful APIs.
• Strong programming skills in Java.
• Ability to understand and translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts effectively and possessing the interpersonal skills required to collaborate with colleagues across diverse technology teams

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Understanding of some or all of the following concepts: OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML
• Experience or interest in building mission critical and highly available systems
• Understanding or experience working with technologies such as AWS (or other Public Cloud), Infrastructure as Code, Terraform, Containers (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Familiarity with security products such as PingFederate, Azure Active Directory, Okta (or other IAM solutions) is a plus.
• Scripting skills using Python, Bash, or similar language
• Knowledge of responsive web development, with basic React experience

THE ROLE

We are pursuing engineers who enjoy working in a client driven and agile environment and like to contribute across the stack; those who are confident in developing secure, scalable and resilient services and are equally comfortable with building responsive user interfaces.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design and develop software that implement modern web security protocols and concepts.
• Build systems integrating off the shelf solutions, cloud native offerings and custom products.
• Help to communicate and promote best practices for building secure applications across the firm.
• Engage in production troubleshooting and engineer product improvements to ensure a highly available and resilient ecosystem.