<p>Backend or Full Stack Engineer (Associate)</p> <p>Wealth Management</p> <p>Across Wealth Management, Goldman Sachs helps empower clients and customers around the world to reach their financial goals. Our advisor-led wealth management businesses provide financial planning, investment management, banking and comprehensive advice to a wide range of clients, including ultra-high net worth and high net worth individuals, as well as family offices, foundations and endowments, and corporations and their employees. Our consumer business provides digital solutions for customers to better spend, borrow, invest, and save. Across Wealth Management, our growth is driven by a relentless focus on our people, our clients and customers, and leading-edge technology, data and design.</p> <p>GS Ayco Engineering</p> <p>Goldman Sachs Ayco partners with Fortune 1000 companies to design and implement tailored financial planning programs for their workforce providing both financial services to executives and financial wellness to all other employees. Ayco believes companies best serve their stakeholders and the greater economy when their employees' financial lives are clear, understood and in their control. Ayco advisors and technical specialists help clients achieve their personal financial goals through education and guided implementation across seven key financial disciplines, including employee benefit planning, insurance and tax preparation</p> <p>Our engineers are innovators and problem-solvers, building solutions in client experience, mobile, data, and many financial services domains. We look for creative collaborators who evolve, adapt to change and thrive in a fast-paced global environment. We develop cutting-edge systems that solve complex problems and form the core of our business. Team members have the opportunity to work at the forefront of technology innovation alongside industry leaders and make significant contributions to the field.</p> <p>You will:</p> <ul> <li>Collaborate with a global cross functional team in building customer-centric products </li><li>Analyze existing software to identify areas of improvement and provide estimates for implementing new features </li><li>Follow standard software development guidelines and best practices </li><li>Create and maintain test plans, documentation and automated tests for all technical changes </li><li>Grow your technical skillset by seeking out cross-training and knowledge advancement opportunities </li><li>Participate in user story refinement, technical design, code reviews and the team's Agile process </li><li>Participate in continuous improvement efforts </li></ul> <p>You are:</p> <ul> <li>Energetic, self-directed and self-motivated, able to build and sustain long-term relationships with clients and colleagues </li><li>Open minded when approaching problem solving within the context of a team </li><li>Analytical, with an ability to apply knowledge and experience in decision-making to arrive at well-engineered solutions </li><li>Motivated to learn and contribute technical and product solutions and ideas to a broad team </li></ul> <p>Basic Qualifications:</p> <ul> <li>Degree in computer science or engineering, or equivalent industry experience </li><li>3+ years of experience with Java or other related Object Oriented development language </li><li>Experience with microservices architecture and API development </li><li>Experience working with relational and NoSQL databases </li><li>Ability to establish trusted partnerships with cross functional team members and product owners </li></ul> <p>Preferred Qualifications:</p> <ul> <li>Source Control Management systems (i.e., SVN, Git) </li><li>An understanding of common application architecture design patterns </li><li>Experience working in an Agile environment </li></ul> <p>Salary Range</p> <p>The expected base salary for this Albany, New York, United States-based position is $95000-$145000. In addition, you may be eligible for a discretionary bonus if you are an active employee as of fiscal year-end.</p> <p>Benefits</p> <p>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.</p>