Software Engineer

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.

The XIG (External Investing Group) has over 400 professionals across 13 offices around the world, and covers external managers within the alternative investments space - private equity, private credit and so forth. XIG provides investment manager diligence on primaries, secondaries, co-investments and GP-stake business. In addition, XIG performs portfolio construction, portfolio implementation, risk management, and liquidity solutions to investors, drawing on Goldman Sachs’ market insights and risk management expertise.

How Will You Fulfill Your Potential

• Work with a global team of highly motivated platform engineers and software developers building integrated architecture for secure, scalable infrastructure services serving a diverse set of use cases.
• Partner with colleagues from across technology and risk to ensure an outstanding platform is delivered.
• Help provide frictionless integration with the firm’s runtime, deployment and SDLC technologies.
• Collaborate on feature design, architecture and problem solving
• Help to ensure reliability, define, measure, and meet service level objectives.
• Quality coding & integration, testing, release, and demise of software products supporting AWM functions.
• Engage in quality assurance and production troubleshooting.
• Help to communicate and promote best practices for software engineering across the Asset Management tech stack.

Basic Qualifications

• A strong grounding in software engineering concepts and implementation of architecture design patterns.
• A good understanding of multiple aspects of software development in microservices architecture, full stack development experience, Identity / access management and technology risk.
• Sound SDLC and practices and tooling experience - version control, CI/CD and configuration management tools.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts effectively, both written and orally, as well as interpersonal skills required to collaborate effectively with colleagues across diverse technology teams.
• Experience meeting demands for high availability and scalable system requirements.
• Ability to reason about performance, security, and process interactions in complex distributed systems.
• Ability to understand and effectively debug both new and existing software.
• Experience with metrics and monitoring tooling, including the ability to use metrics to rationally derive system health and availability information.
• Experience in auditing and supporting software based on sound SRE principles.

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ Years of industry experience building enterprise applications
• 3+ years of experience in leading projects from requirement gathering through delivery
• Extensive proficiency in the Spring ecosystem (Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Security) and designing RESTful APIs
• Expertise in architecting and deploying scalable solutions leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) and agentic frameworks
• Understanding of the private markets landscape including primaries and secondaries investments
• Hands-on experience with IaC scripts (like Terraform) for automated provisioning of compute, networking and storage resources
• Proven track record building applications with front-end frameworks like Angular or React
• Proficiency in building services using public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure or GCP
• Familiarity with cloud-native databases like Single-store and Snowflake 

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.

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