Engineering-L2-Dallas-Associate-Software Engineering

WHO WE ARE

Goldman Sachs is leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of services worldwide to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and high net-worth individuals.

Founded in 1869, it is one of the oldest and largest investment banking firms. The firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in London, Bangalore, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong and other major financial centers around the world.

We are committed to growing our distinctive Culture and holding to our core values which always place our client's interests first. These values are reflected in our Business Principles, which emphasize integrity, commitment to excellence, innovation and teamwork.

BUSINESS UNIT OVERVIEW

Enterprise Technology Operations (ETO) is a Business Unit within Core Engineering focused on running scalable production management services with a mandate of operational excellence and operational risk reduction achieved through large scale automation, best-in-class engineering, and application of data science and machine learning. The Production Runtime Experience (PRX) team in ETO applies software engineering and machine learning to production management services, processes, and activities to streamline monitoring, alerting, automation, and incident management. The team also builds and operates products for order management, disaster recovery testing, and developer onboarding.

TEAM OVERVIEW

ETO's Production Runtime Experience team uses big data processing, machine learning, real-time streaming analytics and simplified visualization/interaction to give computer systems the ability to learn and automate many of the tasks that humans would normally perform manually to run the bank's systems. This is achieved through sophisticated engineering; autonomics and machine learning that statistically and inductively help understand the behavior of these complex systems.

ROLE AND RESPONSIBILIITES

An individual in this role is responsible for design, development, deployment and support of products and platforms that leverage Java based technologies and enable large scale event processing in engineering products in ETO. The individual will engage in both server side as well as front-end development as may be required to achieve the desired outcomes. Specific responsibilities include:

• Design component as well as integration architecture for large scale web applications
• Develop, test and support features for globally deployed web apps.
• Follow best practices throughout the project lifecycle
• Participate in team-wide design and code reviews.
• Keep abreast of emerging technical trends, so applicability to ETO products can be determined.

QUALIFICATION

Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent or higher) in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electronics and Communication. Over all 4 - 8 years of experience with a minimum of 2 years in developing Java-based applications.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS

1. Technical

• Strong programming skills in Java and Python with proficiency in object-oriented design principles
• Experience with Java frameworks such as DropWizard, Spring and Hibernate
• Familiarity with web development frameworks (Angular or React)
• Experience with Testing frameworks (JUnit, TestNG, Cucumber, Mockito)
• Hands-on experience with building stream-processing systems using Hadoop, Spark and related technologies
• Familiarity with distributed storage systems like Cassandra, MongoDB and JanusGraph.
• Experience with various messaging systems, such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Experience with Caching solutions like Hazelcast, Redis or MemCache
• Knowledge of build tools like Maven or Gradle
• Familiarity with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines especially using Git
• Working knowledge of Unix/Linux experience
• Strong problem solving skills and attention to detail

2. Soft skills

• Strong communication skills with a track record of working and collaborating with global teams,
• Must possess the ability to handle multiple on-going assignments and be able to work independently in addition to contributing as part of a highly collaborative and globally dispersed team,
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to break down and communicate complex issues, ideas and solutions,
• Thorough knowledge and experience in all phases of SDLC

3. Additional skills (Advantage)

• Working knowledge of enterprise database systems (Sybase or DB2) ,
• Programming in Perl, Python and shell script.
• Knowledge and experience in building conversational user interfaces enabled by AI

YOUR CAREER

Goldman Sachs is a meritocracy where you will be given all the tools to help you develop. At Goldman Sachs, you will have access to excellent training programs designed to improve multiple facets of your skills portfolio. Our in-house training programmer, 'Goldman Sachs University' offers a comprehensive series of courses that you will have access to as your career progresses. Goldman Sachs University has an impressive catalogue of courses which span technical, business and leadership skills training.