Global Banking&Markets- Lead Frontend Engineer - London- Vice President

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 is at the critical centre 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, AI and more. We look for creative collaborators who evolve, adapt to change and thrive in a fast-paced global environment.

Transaction Banking

Transaction Banking, a business unit within Global Banking & Markets, aims to provide comprehensive cash management solutions for corporations. Transaction Banking combines the strength and heritage of a 155-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.

The Team

The Digital Engineering team is responsible for providing unified digital experience to our clients that interact with Transaction Banking products via different interfaces such as Banking as a Service API, client portal, Files and SWIFT network. Our mission is to build a state of the art digital interface that meets our corporate client's needs. We are starting with a clean slate and one singular goal in mind: build a highly scalable, resilient, 24x7 available cloud-based platform that our corporate clients can rely to meet their cash management needs.

Our flat structure requires and enables team members to evolve through the entire spectrum of the software life-cycle and closely collaborate with product owners, business and operations users.

The Role

As part of our global team you will work front to back as a Lead Engineer, primarily focusing on UI products.

As a project lead, you will drive the design and implementation of critical components in the Digital Engineering stack, focusing the team on code quality, automation and testability, with a focus on UI solutions whilst working closely with backend teams and technologies too. As a manager, you will develop talent of a group of passionate engineers working directly with product owners, visual designers and business clients to deliver our goal of a consumer-grade, industry beating, Digital Experience. 

You will be expected to contribute to the vision, define our product roadmap and contribute to building an engineering culture within our global team. Our flat structure requires and enables team members to evolve through the entire spectrum of the software life-cycle and closely collaborate with product owners, business and operations users. 

We are looking for someone with lots of energy that has excellent communication skills, enjoys engineering challenges, has a passion to deliver high quality technology products and is able to operate in a highly fluid, rapidly changing environment. If that's you, we would like to hear from you.

Basic Qualifications 

• Minimum 7 years of relevant professional experience using a modern UI programming language (Javascript/TypeScript)
• Experience building modern UI products using React
• Proven ability to lead engineering teams and deliver complex products with multiple stakeholders
• Experience architecting, designing full stack apps in AWS
• Prior experience with working on high availability, mission critical systems using active/active and blue-green deployment methodology
• BS. or higher in Computer Science (or equivalent work experience)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Node, Webpack, MobX, Redux
• Experience with Spring boot, Kafka
• Experience with Microservice architectures and REST API
• Experience with SQL databases (PostgreSQL/Oracle) and nosql (Dynamo/Mongo DB)
• Experience with AWS
• Experience with Transaction Banking, Payment domain
• Experience in Financial Services or Fintech
• Practical experience with containers is a plus
• Comfort with Agile operating models (practical experience of Scrum / Kanban)