Job Summary:

Goldman Sachs is seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in designing, developing and implementing complex software applications, and a strong background in computer science, mathematics, or a related field. The successful candidate will collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop innovative solutions to meet business needs, and will be responsible for building and maintaining highly reliable and scalable systems.

Key Responsibilities:

Design, develop and maintain complex software systems and applications
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and define technical solutions
Implement and maintain best practices for software development and engineering processes
Develop and maintain software documentation, including design specifications, user guides and manuals
Ensure the reliability, scalability and performance of software systems
Troubleshoot and debug complex software issues
Mentor and coach junior engineers

Qualifications:

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or related field
5+ years of experience in software development and engineering
Strong proficiency in one or more programming languages (Java, C++, Python, etc.)
Solid understanding of software engineering principles, algorithms and data structures
Experience in developing large-scale, highly available, and distributed systems
Experience in designing and implementing RESTful APIs and web services
Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
Strong communication and collaboration skills
Experience with Agile software development methodologies

We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.

We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.

We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.

We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.

To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).

We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.

Read more about the full suite of class-leading benefits our firm has to offer.