Software Engineer - Neurodiversity Initiative

Position: Software Engineer - Neurodiversity Hiring Initiative

Specialisterne Neurodiversity Hiring Initiative with Goldman Sachs

Applicants are eligible if they meet these criteria:

• Self-identify with one of the following neurodivergent labels or identities:
• Autism (including Asperger’s and PDD-NOS)
• Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) or Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)
• Learning Disability (dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia)
• Intellectual Disability
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
• Tourette Syndrome
• Have experienced barriers to finding and/or maintaining employment related to their neurodivergence.
• Are open to receiving workplace support from Specialisterne.

Learn more about who’s eligible for Specialisterne’s Neurodiversity Hiring program and how the process works here:

Job Summary

• Organization:
  Goldman Sachs
• Job Title:
  
  Software Engineer
• Location:
  
  Dallas, TX

* Candidates should be currently located within commutable distance to the role location (relocation options are not available for these roles)

Employment Terms

• This role is an 8‑week internship with the opportunity to transition to full‑time.
• Internship and full‑time employment are both fully in‑office.
• Hours:
  
  Monday‑Friday, 9:00 am‑5:00 pm.
• Overtime:
  Some weekends may be required, depending on maintenance cycles.
• Target
  
  Start Date:
  
  May 4, 2026.
• Estimated Salary: $90,000/year.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States, without the need for sponsorship now or in the future.

Essential Tasks – What you will do

• Solve complex problems at scale and develop high-performance quality applications with a global user base.
• Build and deploy modern data management tools to curate key client reference data sets, models and workflows.
• Evaluate, select and acquire new internal or external data sets that contribute to business decision making.
• Engineer data processing pipelines while identifying areas for process automation and improving efficiency.
• Partner with data platform teams to adopt cloud-based processing pipelines and data distribution.
• Drive strategic initiatives and delivery of key programs of work across the Client Data or Vendor Data department and the broader division.

General

Skills and Abilities

– What you will demonstrate

• The ability and willingness to learn new technical skills.
• The ability to be an independent thinker and a desire to take on challenges.
• The ability to stay business focused and push for quantifiable commercial impact.
• The ability to collaborate effectively across global teams and communicate complex ideas in a simple manner.
• A strong work ethic with a sense of ownership and urgency.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.

Digital/Technical Skills – What you will demonstrate

• Intermediate programming skills using Java, Python, React, or SQL.
• Basic data modeling skills using Excel or similar tools (such as column labeling and adjusting data to represent data in a user-friendly way that is easily consumed).
• Basic version control skills in Git.

Education/Knowledge – What you need to have

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Basic knowledge of working with complex business processes, data flows and consuming large amounts of data is nice to have but not required.
• Basic understanding of cloud infrastructure is nice to have but not required.

Experience – What you need to have

• Experience (professional, personal, or academic) with any of the following is nice to have but not required:
• Working on a project using AGILE methodology.
• Working with others via code reviews.
• Testing frameworks.
• AI tools such as Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude Code.

Social Interaction – Required communication and interaction

• Oral communication:
  Daily.
• Email communication:
  Daily.
• Instant messaging:
  Hourly to Daily.
• Video communication:
  Daily (Camera is optional).
• Interacting with supervisors:
  Weekly.
• Interacting with peers:
  Daily.

Job Stressors – What employees find stressful

• Working on projects with tight timelines.
• Projects require creative problem-solving and troubleshooting that may involve working through frequent hurdles or roadblocks.
• Recognizing the correct point to stop unproductive efforts and ask for help or elevate issues when encountering roadblocks.
• Needing to rapidly pivot…