Job Duties: Associate, Software Engineering with Goldman Sachs & Co LLC in Jersey City, New Jersey. Develop, enhance, support and maintain the Firm’s end to end software and data engineering solutions in support of its global businesses. Design and implement high-quality, scalable and thoughtful technology solutions leveraging both internal and open-source services. Assist in requirements gathering, user story refinement, development, testing (unit, integration and regression), User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and deployment. Work with several cross functional and cross engineering teams to develop solution designs. Identify new external technologies that can be used to transform our financial businesses and internal platforms in innovative and disruptive ways. Work in all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) to meet internal and regulatory requirements. Design, implement and maintain robust testing suites to enable safe, complete, and scalable solutions across our business lines.
Job Requirements: Master’s degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Information Systems or a related field and one (1) year of experience in job offered or related software engineering role OR Bachelor’s degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Information Systems or a related field and three (3) years of experience in job offered or a related software engineering role. Prior experience must include one (1) year with Master’s OR three (3) years with Bachelor’s with the following skills: C++ or Java; full software development lifecycle including requirements gathering, design, coding, testing, documentation, deployment, and production support including observability of production pipelines; collaborative teamwork and continuous project improvement using Agile and Scrum methodologies; building multi-threaded and multi-process service-oriented C++ or Java enterprise applications within Unix environment; programming technologies including Java, Spring, Hibernate, RabbitMQ, or Kafka; relational database management system (RDBMS) such as Sybase or Oracle; micro-services architecture design and development including REST, Java, Spring, or other back-end technologies; infrastructure as Code (IaC) including Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible; scripting Languages including Python, Go, Bash, PowerShell, or Java; and CI/CD Workflows including GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins
Salary Range: Annual base salary for this Jersey City, New Jersey -based position is $149,000 - $168,700.
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We Offer Best-In-Class Benefits
Healthcare & Medical Insurance
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.
Holiday & Vacation Policies
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.
Financial Wellness & Retirement
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.
Health Services
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.
Fitness
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).
Child Care & Family Care
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.
Benefits at Goldman Sachs
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