Asset & Wealth Management-Software Engineering-Associate-Dallas

Goldman Sachs•Dallas, TX

About The Position

In this role you will have an opportunity to work with an extremely strong, diverse, global team of engineers on a modern application stack providing critical performance analyses to internal teams as well as external clients through goldman.com. You will also learn all about the complexities of calculating performance in the wealth management space which is a great way to start your journey in learning the business here at GS. Performance is one of the most important metrics used by our clients to evaluate how well we are doing for them as a firm so the opportunity for having an impact is very high. The performance project is modern so you will have an opportunity to work with recent technologies and contribute to a growing platform providing critical functionality.

Requirements

3+ years of overall work experience.
Strong analytical and communication (in person, email, phone) skills.
Strong sense of ownership, focus on quality, responsiveness, efficiency, and innovation.
Experience with producing scalable software designs.
Collaborating with product and technology teams to define product requirements and design solutions.
Experience with Java or other relevant Object Oriented development language.
Experience with using relational databases, such as SingleStore or Sybase, and utilizing complex Structured Query Language (SQL), stored procedures and optimizing queries.
Experience in working with CI/CD, GIT, Jira methodologies.
Experience with microservices architecture and API development.

Nice To Haves

Experience in Hadoop/Big data/Apache Spark is a plus.

Responsibilities

Software engineering role responsible for the design, implementation and support of Performance Technology Platform and related Applications.
Design, develop and test components of performance calculator leveraging technologies like Java 8+, Spring Boot, SingleStore, Hadoop, Spark refiners, etc. to normalize and refine transactions and positions data of PWM Accounts and thereby calculating time weighted returns, internal rate of return, investment results and other performance metrics for client accounts.
Work with distributed databases like SingleStore to compute account performance and retrieve data for RESTful APIs; profile the application to identify throughput and capacity bottlenecks and remediate them by suggesting and/or implementing alternate solutions.
Work daily with product owner and development teams in an agile setting to prioritize and deliver business requirements for performance calculator.
Work with the users to resolve production related issues with regards to accounts performance data provided by the performance calculator.
Create required engineering artifacts, including architecture and sequence diagrams for review by senior technical leadership.
Collaborate with product, engineering, operations and development teams on all phases of the agile software development lifecycle including functional analysis, technical design and implementation of product features.
Conduct code reviews and provide feedback on code submitted by other members of the team.
Facilitate reviews with Tech Risk and Internal Audit (or related) teams to ensure software components are compliant with the Firm’s standards for security, privacy and access controls.
Implement software according to the Firm’s standard software development guidelines and best practices in accordance with strategic technical objectives.
Create and maintain test plans, documentation and automated testing routines for all technical changes.
Effectively communicate technical and non-technical concepts to business and technology team stakeholders in written and verbal form.