Engineering - CTL - Software Engineer - Associate - London

at  Goldman Sachs

The Project
We have embarked on a highly ambitious, visible and impactful project which wholly reimagines the functional architecture needed to support the firm’s trading business and to empower the next two decades of growth by developing an extensible and scalable platform which also delivers operational efficiencies. This multi-year effort is based around an engineering-principles-first approach and dovetails with the firm’s core technology strategy.
The Role
We are looking for engineers to work on both the infrastructure side of the project as well as on developing the core business model and the services around it.
On the Infrastructure side of the project, the work consists of establishing the capabilities of the platform, as well as developing the development environment which will form the basis for other engineers’ experience with the platform.
On the Core Business side of the project, the work consists of establishing an extensible model that can easily and seamlessly represent all of the firm’s business; of developing core services for that business model and collaborating with engineers in the business teams to develop their services on top of the core services.
Your Impact
You will deliver a functioning and high performance production cloud platform with its own development and deployment mechanism, which can operate in a secure and audited manner with low maintenance cost. You will build towards, and prove, the global resiliency of the platform, including a focus on connectivity with on prem and other cloud providers. You will work with infrastructure and tech risk engineers within the firm, as well as with the engineering teams working with, and deploying on, the platform.

You will fulfil your potential by

• Building software and infrastructure services and libraries to provide platform functionality with security and maintainability built-in at the core
• Partnering with other engineers and firm experts to ensure the performance and compliance of the platform
• Innovating creative solutions to complex problems, and…
• Influencing broadly across teams to challenge entrenched practices
• Managing the full lifecycle of software components from requirements through design, testing, development, release and demise.
• Engaging in production troubleshooting, mitigation and remediation

Basic Qualifications

• Java proficiency. 2 years+ experience
• Experience with Distributed systems
• Sound SDLC and practices and tooling experience; version control, CI/CD
• The ability to understand and effectively debug both new and old software
• The ability to communicate technical concepts effectively, both written and orally,
• Strong teamworking and collaboration skills required to be effective with diverse and geographically distributed teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Cloud technologies, specifically GCP
• Containerization, specifically Kubernetes

• Experience with open sourceExperience monitoring, measuring, auditing and supporting software

• What We Do
  At Goldman Sachs, our Engineers don’t just make things – we make things possible. Change the world by connecting people and capital with ideas. Solve the most challenging and pressing engineering problems for our clients. Join our engineering teams that build massively scalable software and systems, architect low latency infrastructure solutions, proactively guard against cyber threats, and leverage machine learning alongside financial engineering to continuously turn data into action. Create new businesses, transform finance, and explore a world of opportunity at the speed of markets.
  Engineering, which is comprised of our Technology Division and global strategists groups, is at the critical center of our business, and our dynamic environment requires innovative strategic thinking and immediate, real solutions. Want to push the limit of digital possibilities? Start here.
  Who We Look For
  Goldman Sachs Engineers are innovators and problem-solvers, building solutions in risk management, big data, mobile and more. We look for creative collaborators who evolve, adapt to change and thrive in a fast-paced global environment.

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