Lead Java/Python Software Engineer -… at Goldman Sachs · Warsaw

GBM Software Engineering

Global Banking & Markets – Lead Software Engineer

Our core value is building strong relationships with our institutional clients, which include corporations, financial service providers, and fund managers. We help them buy and sell financial products on exchanges around the world, raise funding, and manage risk. This is a dynamic, entrepreneurial team with a passion for the markets, with individuals who thrive in fast-paced, changing environments.

Your Impact

You'll be responsible for being innovative, creative in solving real world problems related to trading and financial markets. This role will involve data analysis, designing, writing, reviewing, testing and implementing a variety of scalable applications leveraging the latest technologies. The applications we develop include inventory and risk management, calculating client pnl, and facilitating internal/external trading flows.

You will undertake development across all tiers of our business-facing systems within a global team (NY, LDN, Warsaw, Bengaluru, SLC). You will be expected to implement and suggest best development practices/methodologies to deliver high quality software throughout the development stack. Our primary technologies are Java, kafka, databases (MongoDB, Sybase, DB2, DataLake) and Web (reactJS, TypeScript).

How will you fulfill your potential?

• Establish and lead a new Warsaw-based engineering team delivering high-quality, scalable KYC capabilities as part of a global platform.
• Build and nurture team talent: conduct interviews, make hiring decisions, onboard engineers, set goals, provide technical guidance, and coach career growth.
• Partner closely with global engineering peers (Salt Lake City, Bengaluru, Hyderabad) to co-develop shared services, align roadmaps, and uphold engineering standards.
• Develop a deep understanding how markets function front-to-back in the finance domain covering trading, client flow and transaction management
• Develop good project management skills & leadership skills
• Develop strong skills in programming and technical architecture design

Basic Qualifications

• Experience leading and engineering team
• Experience with OO design and Java implementation
• Experience providing high quality production support to a demanding user base
• Experience with requirement gathering from interactions with end-users
• Experience with full project life cycle and agile style development
• Solid communication and presentation skills
• Demonstrate solid ability to multi-task (1-2 simultaneous projects)
• Must be a self-starter
• 8+ years OO design/development
• 5 + years Java development
• Experience with test driven development and methodology

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven experience leading hands-on engineering teams, with a strong technical background, to establish and grow a new team in Warsaw supporting a global KYC (Know Your Customer) platform.
• Demonstrated ability to recruit, interview, and hire top engineering talent; provides effective technical leadership, career mentorship, and project delivery oversight within the team.
• Track record of collaborating across globally distributed engineering organizations partnering cross-functionally with Operations, Financial Crimes Compliance, and other Engineering teams.
• Experience with real-time systems/messaging infrastructures
• Experience with full stack development
• Familiarity with build/deployment/runtime tools e.g. Gradle, Maven, Git, Spring, Kubernetes, Cloud
• Finance, Securities Lending and Equities knowledge a strong plus
• Familiarity with building and running resilient and scalable systems

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.

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