Developer Agent Software Engineer - Vice President - London

Goldman Sachs, Inc.
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
2 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior

Job location

Charing Cross, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Secure Shell (SSH)
Java
Address Resolution Protocols
Artificial Intelligence
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
C++
Cloud Computing
Computer Programming
Continuous Integration
Linux
DevOps
Distributed Systems
DNS
Hypertext Transfer Protocols (HTTP)
Internet Control Message Protocol
Python
Systems Development Life Cycle
Software Engineering
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
Transport Layer Security
Delivery Pipeline
Containerization
Kubernetes
Infrastructure Automation Frameworks
Information Technology
Terraform
Docker
Go

Job description

The Developer Journey Strategy focuses on investing in the developer experience to minimize friction, promote standardization, and leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enable seamless delivery. By streamlining processes, implementing consistent practices, and integrating AI-driven tools and solutions, we empower developers to efficiently build and run products and platforms. This strategy aims to enhance productivity, foster innovation, and ensure high-quality outcomes by providing developers with the advanced tools, resources, and support they need to succeed. The incorporation of AI not only automates routine tasks and optimizes workflows but also provides predictive insights and intelligent recommendations, further enhancing the development process., We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Engineer to join our team at Goldman Sachs. This role is focused on designing, deployment, and management of agentic AI systems to enhance the software development lifecycle. The ideal candidate will be responsible for creating solutions to manage, and optimize the performance of autonomous AI software engineering agents. The successful candidate will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure that the tools and services developed are seamlessly integrated into the existing development workflows, ultimately driving improvements in productivity across the organization. We look for creative collaborators who evolve, adapt to change and thrive in a fast-paced global environment., * Work with advanced AI technologies to enhance coding efficiency, productivity and developer experience.

  • Be part of a forward-thinking team that values continuous improvement and ensures high-quality results.
  • Develop expertise in areas such as CI/CD, SDLC, containerization, GenAI, and cloud computing.
  • Stay updated with the latest technological advancements and best practices by engaging with industry leaders and vendors.
  • Tackle real engineering challenges, contribute to globally scalable platforms, supporting global operations and enhancing the developer experience.

Requirements

  • 10+ years (VP) of industry experience as a programming, software engineering, or similar job roles.
  • General knowledge of multiple languages, and in-depth strong programming skills of at least one of: Golang, Python, Java, C++.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals
  • Familiarity with continuous integration, deployment pipelines, monitoring solutions
  • Comfortable managing multiple stakeholders, driving consensus, and influencing outcomes, strong problem solving and analytical skills
  • Strong oral and written communication skills, * BSc / MSc in relevant field (Computer Science, Engineering or related field)
  • Experience with AI and machine learning technologies.
  • Experience with DevOps, SRE, infrastructure as code, Terraform, AWS
  • General knowledge of Linux, Docker, Kubernetes
  • Experience with all stages in the lifecycle of developing and running large distributed systems
  • Knowledgeable about networking (TCP, UDP, ICMP, ARP, DNS, TLS, HTTP, SSH)

Benefits & conditions

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.

Holiday & Vacation Policies

We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.

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.

About the company

Part of the Goldman Sachs' Core Engineering group's function is to provide best in class language support and tooling for our engineering community to facilitate the building, testing and deployment of their products. We strive for our tooling to improve product quality, developer productivity and increase opportunities for collaboration. Our aim is to innovate and drive technology solutions that will impact the bottom line for the firm. By joining us, you will be part of a diverse global technical team focusing on solving critical business problems. You will be working at the heart of the developer experience, ensuring the code that is written by thousands of GS engineers is versioned securely, reviewed expertly, compiled quickly, tested comprehensively, and distributed widely., 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. 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. : https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html © The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 2026. All rights reserved. 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.

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