What We Do

At Goldman Sachs, our Engineers don’t just make things – we make things possible.  Change the world by connecting people and capital with ideas.  Solve the most challenging and pressing engineering problems for our clients.  Join our engineering teams that build massively scalable software and systems, architect low latency infrastructure solutions, proactively guard against cyber threats, and leverage machine learning alongside financial engineering to continuously turn data into action.  Create new businesses, transform finance, and explore a world of opportunity at the speed of markets.

Engineering, which is comprised of our Technology Division and global strategists groups, is at the critical center of our business, and our dynamic environment requires innovative strategic thinking and immediate, real solutions.  Want to push the limit of digital possibilities?  Start here.

Who We Look For

Goldman Sachs Engineers are innovators and problem-solvers, building solutions in risk management, big data, mobile and more. We look for creative collaborators who evolve, adapt to change and thrive in a fast-paced global environment.

The Concert Platform offers a comprehensive suite of software products to provide the scaffolding for standing up front-office business applications quickly and reliably. By modularizing common functional logic – such as portfolio rebalance or order creation workflows – and offering out-of-the-box solutions for common architectural considerations – namely scalability, concurrency control and resiliency – the Concert Platform accelerates the development of durable front-office systems.

Concert platform is a fast growing ecosystem with increasing demands and massive demand to scale( 1/2 billion events processed last year through concert platform involving 10 trillion dollars of notional value traded) .  Concert Platform has been adopted across 3 Divisions and used by over 30 desks (trading and non trading) with an accelerating adoption rate in 2024  (10 users onboarded or in process of onboarding since beginning of the year and more are inquiring). 

If you want to learn more detail about concert and its components - we encourage you to review this deck.

Job summary

The individual will work on BTS Concert Platform where they will focus on building/enhancing core flagship transaction processor engine, portfolio management , trading frameworks and services for various engineering teams across multiple divisions( CWM, GBM, Core). This includes modernizing, scaling and adding new features to transaction processor engine, providing new hosting options such as deploying in the cloud, and expanding our observability and distributed tracing capabilities. It also includes integrating new functionality from business feature requests into core libraries to make available for other businesses to easily leverage, as well as enhancing core libraries to be able to easily plug in business-specific logic to enable faster feature development by desk-facing engineers for future deliverables. This also includes R&D work to modernize and grow Concert platform, extend user base and solve common difficult, but interesting, problems faced by our stakeholders. 

Tech Stack: Java, Mongodb,Kafka, Reactive(RXJava), Spring, Vertex, Jersey, Geode , Elastic, HDFS, Spark, Zipkin, Kibana,  Logstash, Terraform ,Angular, React.

Job Requirements

1. 1-3 years of work experience
2. Strong analytical and problem solving skills
3. Core Java
4. Strong software development skills 
5. Ability to architect complex systems( for VP level)
6. Understanding of distributed databases and messaging frameworks   
7. Understanding of distributed systems, Graph Databases, Docker/Kubernetes is preferred
8. Passion to learn new skillset as required.
9. Passion to solve complex engineering problems and perform R&D
10. Desire to work in dynamic environment