Goldman Sachs 

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments, and individuals. Founded in 1869, the firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in all major financial centers around the world.

Divisional Overview

Global Banking and Markets division provides financing, advisory, risk distribution, and hedging services for institutional and corporate clients. Within Global Banking and Markets, our equities professionals focus on delivering ideas, execution, and liquidity to a wide array of clients trading the entire range of equity products, including physical shares, ETFs, synthetic shares, baskets, options, and other derivatives. Our engineers play important roles in several areas within the division. Some engineers build automated trading platforms and algorithms for the firm and its clients, taking an active part in the increasing shift from voice to electronic trading. Others sit on trading desks, creating cutting-edge derivative pricing models, and developing empirical models to provide insight into market behavior. Still others develop systems and processes that assist with making the entire trade life cycle more seamless.

GSET Engineering 

Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading (GSET) offers a best-in-class comprehensive suite of trading strategies to help clients achieve their trading objectives and navigate a variety of market conditions leveraging historical analyses, quantitative models, and real-time market information. These strategies are built on a highly distributed, scalable, low latency trading platform, which processes billions of transactions daily in the low microsecond range, with minimal jitter. Our engineers are responsible for designing, building, and maintaining this trading platform as well as the strategies running on the platform, in a collaborative environment. The software our engineers write is of a very high standard: it is client and market facing with real time SLAs and can have high financial and regulatory impact. Some engineers focus on implementing the platform, its surrounding ecosystem and order management workflows, writing highly performant code and optimizing its interaction with the hardware and infrastructure it is executing on. Others work on building the trading models, signals and algorithmic logic which constitute the trading strategies.

Who Are We Looking For

We are looking for a strong engineer in the electronic trading space. The team is part of expanding the scope of major electronic trading platforms which processes billions of dollars’ worth of trades every day. The team writes highly performant code using best-in-class software development processes and seeks to continuously improve all aspects of the system. We push our own boundaries and challenge the status quo in others. Our main goal is to create performant, scalable and resilient trading systems through best-in-class software change management. We want technical people that communicate well and have a passion for efficiency and automation, continually looking for ways to improve. As part of this effort, they will be expected to collaborate with colleagues across the world.

Your Impact

Working as a member of the core trading platform team, you will play an active role in ensuring our trading applications remain best-in-class and fit for expansion into new areas. You will be responsible for maintaining and developing the platform used for accessing equity and derivatives exchanges and other trading platforms, implementing solutions related to order routing, dissemination of market information, controls evaluation, and the transaction platform that supports these functions – all while maintaining our low latency performance profile. Together with the team you will tackle complex software engineering problems in an environment where we collaborate across business functions to deliver new solutions every day.

The ideal candidate brings customer service excellency in their approach and have a solid understanding of distributed software systems.

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related fieldProductive in programming in an object-oriented languageAbility to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environmentAbility to challenge status quo and automate manual tasksAbility to drive complex change to completion in collaboration and independentlyKnowledge of basic networking concepts, topologies, and technologiesStrong analytical and problem-solving skillsStrong communication skills and ability to work in a team

Preferred Qualifications

C++ programming experienceExperience of low-latency systems, including messaging and network protocolsWorking knowledge of order management systems Knowledge of financial markets   ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS
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