Securities Lending Technologies - Software Engineer - NYC - GBM

About the job
Job Description

Securities Lending Technologies – Software Engineer 

Our core value is building strong relationships with our institutional clients, which include corporations, financial service providers, and fund managers. We help them buy and sell financial products on exchanges around the world, raise funding, and manage risk. This is a dynamic, entrepreneurial team with a passion for the markets, with individuals who thrive in fast-paced, changing environments and are energized by a bustling trading floor.

Our Impact

Our Securities Lending role involves working in a dynamic front-office trading environment.

Our end to end technology stack runs the firm’s Securities Lending business. We build innovative tech solutions for our businesses, allowing them to serve their Hedge Fund clients and Institutional Lenders. Our highly global technical team works with a trading and operations user base to deliver commercial solutions with a particular focus on event driven services and trader experience. We’re agile, global and diverse. We currently have a strong focus on re-engineering and further automating our flows to enable us to increase our volumes to various electronic venues in a way that provides scale, transparency and control for trading.

Your Impact

You'll be responsible for being innovative, creative in solving real world problems related to trading and financial markets. This role will involve data analysis, designing, writing, reviewing, testing and implementing a variety of scalable applications leveraging the latest technologies. The applications we develop include inventory and risk management, calculating client pnl, and facilitating internal/external trading flows.

You will undertake development across all tiers of our business-facing systems within a global team (NY, LDN, Warsaw, Bengaluru, SLC). You will be expected to implement and suggest best development practices/methodologies to deliver high quality software throughout the development stack. Our primary technologies are Java, kafka, databases (MongoDB, Sybase, DB2, DataLake) and Web (reactJS, TypeScript).

How will you fulfill your potential?
Develop a deep understanding how markets function front-to-back in the finance domain covering trading, client flow and transaction management
Develop good project management skills & leadership skills
Develop strong skills in programming and technical architecture design
Build close working relationships with Business users covering Front Office Traders, Middle Office Operations and Back Office users.
Develop personal skills to a high level
Participate in a high work ethic environment 
Basic Qualifications
Experience with OO design and Java implementation
Experience providing high quality production support to a demanding user base
Experience with requirement gathering from interactions with end-users
Experience with full project life cycle and agile style development
Solid communication and presentation skills
Demonstrate solid ability to multi-task (1-2 simultaneous projects)
Must be a self-starter
1+ years OO design/development
1+ years Java
1+ years database experience preferred
Experience with test driven development and methodology 
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with real-time systems/messaging infrastructures
Experience with full stack development
Familiarity with build/deployment/runtime tools e.g. Gradle, Maven, Git, Spring, Kubernetes, Cloud
Finance, Securities Lending and Equities knowledge a strong plus
Familiarity with building and running resilient and scalable systems 
Salary Range

The expected base salary for this New York, New York, United States-based position is $110000-$130000. In addition, you may be eligible for a discretionary bonus if you are an active employee as of fiscal year-end.

Benefits

Goldman Sachs is committed to providing our people with valuable and competitive benefits and wellness offerings, as it is a core part of providing a strong overall employee experience. A summary of these offerings, which are generally available to active, non-temporary, full-time and part-time US employees who work at least 20 hours per week, can be found here .