Global Banking & Markets – Software Engineer – Vice President – London

Overview

In this role you will help build and operate the Consolidated Trade Ledger (CTL) for Goldman Sachs’ Equities trading, as part of a cloud-native, AI-driven modernization. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to extend CTL for global, high-velocity trading while ensuring availability, latency, and resilience. You’ll influence architectural standards, leverage AI tooling to accelerate delivery, and shape the future of global markets infrastructure. This is a rare chance to define foundational systems for a world-leading financial institution and drive meaningful transformation.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate high-availability, multi-region, cloud-native services with built-in security and observability
• Develop event-driven architectures and data pipelines for trade lifecycle management
• Collaborate with engineers and domain experts to model and digitize business processes and drive modernization
• Manage full SDLC lifecycle from requirements to release following Agile best practices
• Innovate reusable capabilities across Global Markets front, middle, and back office
• Orchestrate AI coding agents across SDLC to generate production-quality code and accelerate delivery

Key requirements

• 8+ years of professional Java software development experience (Java 17+ preferred)
• Experience with AI-assisted engineering tools and governance of AI agents
• Experience building event-driven and distributed systems with messaging (e.g., Apache Kafka)
• Strong SDLC practices: version control, CI/CD, automated build/test/deploy, code quality tooling
• Solid testing discipline (unit, integration, acceptance)
• Ability to understand and debug large codebases, with or without AI assistance
• Excellent communication and collaboration across geographically distributed teams

• collaboration
• communication
• problem-solving
• Java 17+
• AI-assisted engineering tools (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot Agent Mode, Devin, Gemini Code Assist)
• Event-driven architectures

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