Engineering-L2-Dallas-Analyst-Software Engineering

Goldman Sachs, Inc.6 months ago

Dallas, TX, United States

On-site

Full-time

Junior Level (1-3 years)

Job Description

Position Overview

As a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for helping to improve the Alloy Studio platform either by providing new functionalities based on user requests and new use cases, or by improving existing ones. There is a wide variety of ways to get involved depending on your interests – from making Alloy Studio intuitive and enhancing the user/developer experience, to streamlining the data modelling process, connecting to new types of databases, refining the modelling language, or optimizing query execution time.

About Alloy Engineering:

Alloy is at the core of the firm's data management – an end-to-end data platform for your data needs. We offer an entire suite of data management products as a service, making it easy for both engineers and business users to get what they need out of the firm's data. Alloy aims to eliminate many of the challenges with data management today in an efficient, secure, and governed manner, removing barriers created by business silos and complex processes.

Key Responsibilities

Design & develop modern data management tools to curate our most important data sets, models, and processes, while identifying areas for process automation and further efficiencies
Contribute to an open source technology - https://github.com/finos/legend
Develop and contribute to legend language - https://legend.finos.org/docs/language/legend-language
Drive adoption of Cloud technology for data processing and warehousing
Engage with data consumers and producers to design appropriate models that suit all needs

Required Qualifications

0-2 years of relevant work experience in a team-focused environment
A Bachelor or Master degree in a computational field (Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Engineering, or a related quantitative discipline)
Strong object-oriented design and programming skills with experience in OO languages (Java)
Experience or interest in functional programming languages
Proven experience applying domain driven design to build complex business applications
Deep understanding of multidimensionality of data, data curation, and data quality, including aspects such as traceability, security, performance latency, and correctness across supply and demand processes
In-depth knowledge of relational and columnar SQL databases, including database design
General knowledge of business processes, data flows, and the quantitative models that generate or consume data
Excellent communication skills and the ability to work with subject matter experts to extract critical business concepts
An independent thinker, willing to engage, challenge, and learn
Ability to stay commercially focused and push for quantifiable commercial impact
Strong work ethic, a sense of ownership, and urgency
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Ability to collaborate effectively across global teams and communicate complex ideas in a simple manner

Preferred Qualifications

Financial Services industry experience
Experience in distributed system design
Experience with Pure/Alloy
Working knowledge of open-source tools such as AWS lambda and Prometheus

Required Skills

AWS

React

SQL Databases

Java

Data Modeling

Domain Driven Design

Functional Programming

Object Oriented Design