The Core Engineering - Software Engineer - Associate / Vice President - Birmingham Birmingham · United Kingdom · Vice President

The Core Engineering - Software Engineer - Associate / Vice President - Birmingham location_on Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom

What you'll do

Build and own the systems that produce the firm's regulatory submissions to global regulators

Take features end to end in an Agile team — requirements, design, code, test, UAT, release and run

Produce technical designs, testing strategies and implementation plans

Work directly with Finance stakeholders to turn regulatory requirements into workflows, data requirements and specifications

Build reusable solutions other teams can adopt, and spot opportunities to collaborate across divisions

Contribute to data modelling and curation for large-scale financial datasets

What you'll need

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in a numerate/technical discipline

4+ years of software development experience

Strong analysis and design skills, including data structures, algorithms and performance-oriented design

Hands-on programming experience in Java

Strong communication skills with both technical and business audiences

We'd also love to see (you don't need all of these)

Working knowledge of cloud, ideally AWS (S3, SQS, Lambda, Fargate) or equivalents

Experience with distributed, microservices-based applications

Solutions architecture and system design experience

Strong database and data modelling skills

Experience with agentic AI coding tools (Claude Code, Copilot Agent Mode, Devin) and spec-driven development

Big data / Lakehouse (Snowflake), ETL pipelines (Spark, Glue), or event streaming (Kafka)

Interest in investment banking or financial instruments

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

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.

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

Read more about the full suite of class-leading benefits our firm has to offer.