Goldman Sachs Asset & Wealth Management:
As one of the world's leading asset managers, our mission is to help our clients achieve their investment goals. To best serve our clients' diverse and evolving needs, we have built our business to be global, broad and deep across asset classes, geographies and solutions.
Goldman Sachs Asset & Wealth Management is one of the world's leading asset management institutions. AWM delivers innovative investment solutions managing close to Two Trillion US Dollars on a global, multi-product platform. In addition to traditional products (e.g. Equities, Fixed Income) our product offering also includes Hedge Funds, Private Equity, Fund of Funds, Quantitative Strategies, Fundamental Equity and a Multi-Asset Pension Solutions Business. Software is engineered in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, adapting to market and customer needs to deliver robust solutions in an ever-changing business environment.
What We Do
Multi-Asset Solutions (MAS) is an investing group within the Asset Management Division at Goldman Sachs. MAS is responsible for managing multi-asset class portfolios and funds, and providing outsourced CIO services. Our clients include discretionary mandates for US and international public pension plans, sovereign wealth funds and insurance companies. The team is comprised of professionals with deep and varied investment backgrounds. Our Engineering and Strategist teams are responsible for building portfolio analysis, trading and asset allocation tools to help our portfolio managers and clients make critical investment decisions for multi-billion dollar portfolios. We also build quantitative models that underpin our investment philosophy and portfolio construction process.
Who We Look For
We are looking for an engineer to join our Strats team to build tools and analytics to grow our retail advisory business and develop our capabilities in tax aware multi-asset class investing. Our engineers design and maintain portfolio analytics calculation engines, databases, caching processes, and web-based tools and workflows utilized internally by portfolio managers and externally by our clients. Our goal is to build scalable, extensible tools that have immediate impact on a growing user base and drive new business initiatives. We are a fun, entrepreneurial team that loves coding, investing, and turning our ideas into reality.
We are looking for creative, self-driven quantitative developers who want to grow and learn from others in a fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate has a strong mix of software engineering and quantitative backgrounds (math or finance-related). You have a track record with JavaScript front and back-end frameworks or Python. You enjoy working with end users to understand the problem at hand and help design the solution, and are excited to learn about investment finance and portfolio management concepts. You will engineer software across all phases of the development life cycle: partnering with MAS investment professionals to design new tools and features, building those features, running tests, presenting to stakeholders, receiving feedback and delivering enhancements.
Requirements
- Bachelors, Masters or equivalent experience in computer science, mathematics or engineering
- Meaningful experience in, but not limited to, any of the following: Javascript frameworks (React/Angular/Node), MongoDB/NoSQL, SQL, Python
- Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms and object oriented programming
- Strong communication skills, ability to work on a fast-paced team and collaborate with stakeholders and end users
- Knowledge of or interest in learning investment finance, portfolio theory and analytics (portfolio optimization, simulation or glidepath)
- Experience building interactive, web-based / mobile applications supported by scalable back-ends and APIs
- 3+ years of relevant work experience
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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Salary Range
The expected base salary for this New York, New York, United States-based position is $115000-$160000. 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.
