Global Banking & Markets - Birmingham - Vice President - Software Engineering
On site
West Midlands, United Kingdom
Full Time
13-03-2025
Job Specifications
Job Description
INVESTMENT BANKING
Goldman Sachs Investment Banking (IB) works on some of the most complex financial challenges and transactions in the market today. Whether advising on a merger, providing financial solutions for an acquisition, or structuring an initial public offering, we handle projects that help clients at major milestones. We work with corporations, pension funds, financial sponsors, and governments and are team of strong analytical thinkers, who have a passion for producing out-of-the-box ideas.
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments, and individuals. Founded in 1869, the firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in all major financial centers around the world.
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!
Who We Look For
You are a proven full stack engineer. Not only strong technically, you have shown that you can work effectively with product managers, designers and other engineering teams.
You have a fierce sense of ownership, caring deeply about the quality of everything that you deliver into your clients’ hands.
You love the challenge of engineering and are confident in your ability to bring clarity and direction to ambiguous problem spaces.
You work well in a fast-paced environment while deeply invest in long term quality and efficiency.
Basic Qualifications
6-8 years of hands-on development experience in Core Java (Java 11-21) or Python, and proficiency in backend technologies such as Databases (SQL/No-SQL), Elastic Search, MongoDB, Spring framework, REST, GraphQL, Hibernate, etc.
Experience with front-end development with React, Redux, Vue, Typescript, and/or similar frameworks.
Demonstrated experience operating in a fast-paced Agile/Scrum setup with a global/remote team.
Knowledge of developing and deploying applications in public cloud (AWS, GCP or Azure) or K8S.
Experience with implementing unit tests, integration tests, Test Driven Development.
Strong development, analytical and problem-solving skills.
Knowledge of prompt engineering, LLM, AI Agents, etc.
Preferred Qualifications
Excellent communication skills and experience working directly with business stakeholders.
Data modeling, warehousing (Snowflake, AWS Glue/ EMR, Apache Spark ) and a strong understanding of data engineering practices.
Technical, Team or Project leadership experience.
Some experience using Infrastructure-As-Code tools (e.g. AWS CDK, Terraform, CloudFormation)
Experience with reactive, event-based architectures.
About Goldman Sachs
At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world.
We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers.
We’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. Learn more: https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html
© The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 2023. All rights reserved.
Goldman Sachs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veterans status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
About the Company
At Goldman Sachs, we believe progress is everyone’s business. That’s why we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, Goldman Sachs is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices in all major financial centers around the world. More about our company can be found at www.goldmansachs.com For insights on developments currently shaping markets, industries and t... Know more
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