Global Markets, Associate, Software Developer, Digital Assets, NYC

Join a leading financial institution at the forefront of digital transformation. At Goldman Sachs, we are pioneering innovative solutions in the digital assets space, leveraging cutting-edge technology to redefine the future of finance. Through our firmwide mandate, our mission is to create best-in-class offerings across our client facilitation of digital asset products, data and market insights, and development of a secure, efficient, and scalable tokenization platform that empower our clients and transform the industry.

We are seeking a passionate and talented software engineer to join our dynamic team. In this role, you will play a critical part in developing and enhancing our digital assets infrastructure and products, working on a variety of projects that drive our digital strategy. You will collaborate with top-tier professionals, leveraging your technical expertise to build robust and scalable products and systems.

Job Summary & Responsibilities (External), Basic Qualifications, Preferred Qualifications

HOW YOU WILL FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL
• Design, develop, test, deploy and support digital assets products and software solutions using distributed ledger technology, smart contracts, and decentralized applications
• Design, develop, test, deploy and support digital asset offering tradables, data models and trade flows on existing GS technology stack and client delivery systems, data feeds to downstream trade processing, settlement, and ledgers
• Perform project deliveries, partner with business, operations, federation, and other engineering teams on functional and technical analysis to launch product solutions and deliver business outcomes
• Research and develop expertise on latest blockchain protocols and smart contract programming

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE WE ARE LOOKING FOR
• Computer Science or Engineering graduate with 3 years of software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages such as Java, Haskell/Scala, Python, C/C
• Minimum 1 years' experience and strong proficiency in smart contract programming developing commercial solutions using Daml, Solidity, Rust, Vyper, etc., with solid performance, resiliency, security, and privacy design
• Strong technology knowhow with developing, upgrading and deploying smart contract decentralized applications on Ethereum (HL Besu / Quorum / Public), Corda, Solana, Cardano, Algorand, etc.
• Experience with tokenized financial asset implementation for debt securities, equities, loans or funds, covering end-to-end lifecycle processing across issuance, distribution, trading, settlement, custody and account management, asset / loan / fund servicing, etc.
• Experience using a test-driven development approach and associated testing tools
• Excellent communication and follow-through, analytical, self-motivated, attention to detail

Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with traditional Financial Markets products and post trade processing - Fixed Income securities, equities, funds
• Experience with developing and launching DeFi products and protocols
• Experience with smart contract security practices and auditing
• Deep knowledge of implementing blockchain underlying technologies and protocols, e.g., inter-chain asset bridges, Layer 2 rollup networks, blockchain VM and ledger API optimization, consensus protocol optimization, ZKP cryptography, etc.
• Experience with DevOps, SRE and AWS cloud implementation in investment banking or FinTech environment

ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS

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

Salary Range
The expected base salary for this New York, New York, United States-based position is $115000-$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 .