Software Engineer (SWIFT)

Opportunity Overview

Corporate Title: Associate Office

Location

New York Job Function: Software Engineering Division: Global Banking & Markets

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. Drive new businesses, redefine finance using AI, and seize opportunities at market speed.

In an era defined by AI, Engineering isn't just central – it's the driving force behind our business. Our dynamic environment demands innovative strategic thinking and immediate, impactful solutions. Ready to push the limits of digital possibility? Begin your journey here.

Within the firm's Global Banking & Markets business, Transaction Banking (TxB) aims to provide comprehensive cash management solutions for corporations. TxB combines the strength and heritage of a 150+ year-old financial institution with the agility and entrepreneurial spirit of a tech start-up. Our goal is to provide the best client experience. Through the use of modern technologies centered on data and analytics, we provide customers with powerful tools that are grounded in value, transparency, and simplicity to improve cash flow management efficiency.

Within TxB, the Cloud Platform Rails team is a global team responsible for engineering and operating SWIFT infrastructure to support our Payment Orchestration and Execution Platform in the public cloud. Working in close partnership with Product and Payments Engineering teams, the team is responsible for supporting multiple global payment rails, including SWIFT cross-border payments, CHAPS, SEPA, and T2.

Who We Look For

Goldman Sachs Engineers are at the forefront of innovation, driving solutions as creative collaborators in a fast-paced global environment. We seek individuals who evolve, adapt, and thrive on challenging problems.

We are seeking highly collaborative, creative, and intellectually curious engineers who are passionate about forming and implementing cutting-edge cloud computing capabilities. Candidates should be comfortable working in a fast-paced DevOps environment.

How You Will Fulfill Your Potential

• Manage multiple tasks and use sound judgment when prioritizing.
• Collaborate with global cross functional teams in building customer-centric products.
• Analyze existing software implementations to identify areas of improvement and provide deadline estimates for implementing new features.
• Update and maintain documentation for team processes, best practices, and software runbooks.
• Establish trusted partnerships with peers, product heads, and executive level stakeholders.

Basic Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Computer Science (or equivalent work experience).
• Minimum 2-3 years of SWIFT AMH, Alliance Gateway (SAG), or equivalent experience.
• Experience with shell scripting or with modern programming languages like Python or Java.
• Experience with version control, continuous integration, deployment, and configuration management tools in a DevOps environment.
• Exceptional analytical skills and ability to apply knowledge and experience in decision-making to arrive at creative and commercial solutions.
• Ability to leverage technology to deliver business value.
• Team oriented; strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Energetic, self-directed, and self-motivated. Must be independent and comfortable in a fast paced and often multi-directional work environment.
• Must be passionate about technology and engineering.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Financial Services or Fintech.
• Hands on experience with Amazon web services, such as Cloudwatch, EC2, ECS, IAM, KMS.
• Experience using Gitlab.
• Experience with IaC languages such as Terraform or Cloudformation.
• Experience with messaging platforms such as IBM MQ.
• Experience with SQL databases (PostgreSQL/Oracle).
• Experience working in a Linux environment, including system engineering, high availability design, performance analysis, network troubleshooting.

Salary Range

The expected base salary for this New York, NY, United States-based position is $115,000-$180,000. 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.

• 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.

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