Global Investment Research

Who We Are

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.

Global Investment Research (GIR) division leverages the latest in cloud, mobile and AI/ML technologies to help define and deliver our digital investment research strategy. As software engineers in GIR, we enable Goldman Sachs's research analysts to model and present investment ideas efficiently and accurately to our clients, whilst ensuring that clients can access these ideas when, where and how they choose.

As a software engineer in GIR, you will

• be part of a diverse and growing global team spread across the Asia, UK and US regional offices and be engaged in all stages of software development from requirements gathering through to development, build, deployment & maintenance of the GIR engineering products
• work on the firm's digital Research platform tools that enable research analysts to produce analytically ambitious Investment Research content and deliver to clients through our omni-channel distribution platform across a wide range of formats, blending text, graphics, data, audio and video. 
• have the opportunity to work on complex, event-driven distributed systems that are highly scalable, reliable, available for clients to consume around the clock and globally.
• leverage AI to super charge your productivity while enabling our clients to make the most of our 3 billion data points and over a million (& still counting) published investment Research reports.
• engage with other segments of Goldman Sachs including Asset & Wealth Management and Global Banking & Markets, delivering value to clients across the globe.
• secure our internet facing APIs and portals including our flagship client facing Research Portal from threat actors by building to the highest cyber security standards in the industry.

We are looking for talented engineers who have an insatiable appetite for learning, are passionate about delivering commercial solutions innovatively and building highly effective teams. The team operates in an Agile (Scrum+Kanban) fashion, incorporating iterative feedback loops with our clients and continual improvement of the team's processes.

Responsibilities And Qualifications

How You Will Fulfill Your Potential

• Design and develop end-to-end software solutions including data modelling, application and service development leveraging multiple technologies
• Collaborate with engineering and business counterparts as part of a global team
• Engage with other engineering teams in providing integration solutions
• Proactively identify efficiency and design improvements to existing systems and processes

Skills And Experience We Are Looking For

• A minimum of 3+ year (and preferably more than 2 years) of enterprise software development experience in Java or Javascript (ReactJS/AngularJS/NodeJS)
• Excellent analytical and hands-on programming skills 
• Team-oriented with strong communication and collaborative skills
• Enthusiastic about learning new programming languages & software design approaches
• Passionate about software and technology

Preferred Qualifications And Experience

• Bachelors in a relevant steam followed by 2-3 years of work experience as a software engineer
• Working in a global team 
• Good to have - Knowledge or experience with
• SOA & RESTful services, Web and service frameworks such as Spring
• AWS cloud, containers development, distributed systems 
• Linux in an operational context
• Event driven data pipelines such as Kafka
• Relational and Non-relational databases and caching technologies such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch

Goldman Sachs Engineering Culture

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 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

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