GreenSky, Software Engineer, Remote

at  Goldman Sachs

Platform Solutions
At Goldman Sachs, we connect people, capital and ideas to help solve problems for our clients. We are a leading global financial services firm providing investment banking, securities and investment management services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals. For us, it’s all about bringing together people who are curious, collaborative and have the drive to make things possible for our clients and communities.
We build and embed cloud-based, developer-centric financial products and services in our clients’ ecosystems to help them better serve their own clients and customers.

OVERVIEW:

GreenSky (A Goldman Sachs Company) is seeking an experienced candidate who can assist with leading, designing and developing a suite of Web Services which will form the basis of advanced application development. The ideal candidate will have expertise in designing and creating Java Web Services using leading open source and industry standard technology stacks. The individual will be able to operate in an Agile environment and oversee the full life cycle development for the services, working with development, DevOps, BA, PM and QA teams following the Agile/SCRUM methodology.

TECHNICAL SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS:

• 7+ years of experience with Java in all phases of software development
• Hands on development background and recent experience developing and implementing Java based Web Services, primarily in a REST model
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
• Experience with AWS Cloud Platform (EC2, ECS, APIGW, Route53, S3, etc.)
• Experience with major open source tools and frameworks such as Spring, Docker, Hibernate, Angular
• Experience developing, deploy, test and maintain technical assets in AWS cloud
• Experience with build and development tools like Gradle and Maven
• Experience with Linux / Unix environments
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Enthusiasm for learning new technologies and applying them to improve our products

• Facilitating requirements gathering sessions and be able to translate business needs into proper solutions.
• Participate with architecture team in technical evaluations, solution and design approaches discussions.
• Design, build, test and deploy highly scalable, high volume Java based Web Services following a traditional REST model.
• Perform code reviews and mentor other team members on the proper approaches to web services development.
• Able to work both in a team environment and as an individual contributor.
• Responsible for actively supporting complex projects or programs from the Software development standpoint to drive the development of multiple GreenSky applications.
• Responsible for support to the team in achieving priorities, goals and strategies with key stakeholders.
• Provides objective advice, expertise and specialist support skills with the aim of creating value and maximizing growth, or improving the business performance of their clients.
• Ensures that development activities are on a path to deliver benefits realization.
• Ensures collaboration with key functional partners in the implementation of initiatives.
• Readily recognizes solution and determines at what point issues require escalation to management.