Junior Software Engineer jobs in United Kingdom

Asset & Wealth Management - Software Engineer - Associate - London location_on London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Founded over 35 years ago to help provide capital solutions to businesses around the world, Goldman Sachs’ alternative investment platform (sitting within GS Asset Management) manages over $400bn in assets across private equity, growth, credit, real estate assets, secondaries, and liquid alternatives strategies. We continue to partner with leading companies, properties, and asset managers globally, leveraging our expertise across capital markets, investment banking, and asset management to engineer solutions that drive growth and generate strong returns for our investors.

AM Alternatives Engineering is a core and critical part of the wider private-side alternative investment platform, working in partnership with investors to build robust, scalable technology platforms, and data driven investing capabilities to enhance the platform’s ability to deliver class‑leading returns to clients on a global scale. We collaborate closely to drive growth, value creation, and efficiencies through automation, digitization, and quantitative analytics across the full investment, fund, and client life cycle.

Deal Manufacturing Engineering focuses on making it easier for Goldman Sachs to find, evaluate, price, structure and execute on private investing opportunities encompassing deal sourcing, deal due diligence and deal execution in real estate, credit, and growth equity. We work with a diverse set of users, data consumers, and stakeholders, including asset/portfolio/fund managers within the alternatives business.

If you enjoy working in a fast‑paced environment, are passionate about producing highly impactful commercial solutions, and collaborating with other driven colleagues, then this is the role for you.

At Goldman Sachs, our culture is one of teamwork, innovation, and meritocracy. Our people are our greatest asset and we take pride in supporting each colleague both professionally and personally.

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or other related STEM subjects
• 3+ years of experience working as a full‑time software developer
• Excellent programming and software design skills in at least one of the following languages: TypeScript, Python, Java
• Experience with relational and/or non‑relational database technologies
• Ideally experience building interactive web applications with React/Angular, and an interest in adopting new technologies (e.g. AWS)
• Proactive attitude to problem solving, personal sense of ownership and responsibility, collaborative team‑player, and a strong growth mind‑set
• Comfortable multi‑tasking, managing multiple stakeholders, and working as part of a global team
• Proven strong communication and interpersonal ability, with an ability to present complex technical ideas to both technical and non‑technical audiences
• Interest in finance (pre‑existing finance knowledge is a plus, but not required)

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.

We’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. Learn more: https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html

Goldman Sachs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veterans status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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.

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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