Financial Engineer - AMD Public MAS Strats - Analyst - The Hague

at  Goldman Sachs

WHAT WE DO

Multi-Asset Solutions, “MAS” is an investing group within the Asset Management Division at Goldman Sachs. MAS is responsible for managing customized multi-asset class portfolios and funds, including discretionary mandates for US and international public pension plans, sovereign wealth funds and insurance companies and providing outsourced CIO services. The team is comprised of professionals with deep and varied investment backgrounds who specialize in designing and implementing customized multi-asset class portfolios.
Our Engineering and Strategist teams are responsible for building portfolio management and asset allocation tools to help our portfolio managers and clients make critical investment decisions for multi-billion dollar portfolios. We also build quantitative models that underpin our investment philosophy and process.

WHO WE LOOK FOR

We are looking for quantitative engineers to join our Strats team to help with core initiatives to deliver our next-generation digital experience to internal and external users using open source tools and frameworks. Our goal is to build scalable, extensible tools that have immediate impact on a growing user base and will serve our needs in the long term to outperform our competitors. We are a fun, entrepreneurial team that loves coding, investing, and turning our ideas into reality. We are looking for creative, self-driven developers who want to grow and learn from others in a fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate has a strong mix of software engineering and quantitative backgrounds. You have a track record with JavaScript front and back-end frameworks or Python. You enjoy working with end users to understand the problem at hand and help design the solution, and are excited to learn about investment finance and portfolio management concepts. You will engineer software across all phases of the software development life cycle: partnering with MAS investing professionals to design new features, building those features, creating, and running tests, receiving feedback, and delivering enhancements.

REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelors, Masters or equivalent experience in computer science, mathematics or engineering
• Meaningful experience in, but not limited to, any of the following: Javascript frameworks (React/Angular/Node), MongoDB/NoSQL, SQL, Python
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms and object oriented programming
• Strong communication skills, ability to work on a fast-paced team and collaborate with stakeholders and end users
• Knowledge of or interest in learning investment finance, portfolio theory and analytics (portfolio optimization, simulation or glidepath)
• 1-2+ years of relevant work experience

Please refer the Job description for details