Software Engineer - Systematic Market Making

Software Engineer - Systematic Market Making

Global Banking & Markets - Software Engineer - Systematic Market Making

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CORPORATE TITLEVice President

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OFFICE LOCATION(S)London

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JOB FUNCTIONSoftware Engineering

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DIVISIONGlobal Banking & Markets

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GLOBAL MARKETS

Our core value is building strong relationships with our institutional clients, which include corporations, financial service providers, and fund managers. We help them buy and sell financial products on exchanges around the world, raise funding, and manage risk. This is a dynamic, entrepreneurial team with a passion for the markets, with individuals who thrive in fast-paced, changing environments and are energized by a bustling trading floor.

WHAT WE DO

Engineers in the Systematic Market Making (SMM) team play an integral role on the trading floor. We develop and employ automated trading strategies for the firm and its clients. We build complex parallel computing architectures, electronic trading tools and models to help us explain market behavior and predict price movement. Throughout the Global Banking and Markets Division, eTrading Engineers are using quantitative and technological techniques to solve complex business problems. As an eTrading Engineer, you will be building the foundational technologies to run those algorithms on markets around the world, and to enable the research and analysis that support them. We are looking for developers who are interested in applying leading-edge technologies to solve problems in electronic trading. In a team of energetic, self-motivated individuals, we need someone who can take the initiative at any stage of the software cycle, from inception, through development, to release and support. This role also interacts with a variety of other engineering, trading and sales teams. The structure is flat and the successful candidate will be able to manage his or her time to have maximum impact.

YOUR IMPACT

You will be working on a team focused on electronic market making in Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities (FICC). You will work with other engineers and traders to improve all aspects of price making and risk management. You’ll do this with a keen eye on performance, guided by a robust measurement framework and lots of experimentation. You'll be doing all this in the context of FICC asset classes and will have an opportunity to develop a deep understanding of how GS interacts with some of the most dynamic and liquid markets in the world.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND QUALIFICATIONS

Principal Responsibilities

• Analyze trading system performance and identify areas for improvement.

• Generate ideas for system enhancements that drive commercial performance.

• Implement, test and deploy these ideas.

• Improve the safety and reliability of trading systems.

• Work constructively in collaboration with other team members.

• Manage work to balance the short-term needs of the business with strategic enhancements.

Experience/Skills

• Strong academic background in Computer Science or an analytical field such as Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, etc.

• Strong software engineering background.

• Proven ability to analyze data and draw useful commercial conclusions.

• Comfortable communicating technical topics to non-specialist audiences.

• History of productive interaction with other groups, especially sales, trading and other technology teams.

• Experience building systems with strict requirements for low-latency (microseconds count) and deterministic performance.

• Performance tuning/optimization of distributed systems.

• Know your way around a Linux shell. Preferred Experience

• Securities/trading experience is a plus but not required.

• Multi-threaded/concurrent programming.

• Just-in-time compilation/code path optimization.

• Memory management strategies.

• JVM tuning for low-latency.

• Low-latency messaging, network protocols, network I/O in Java, JNI.

• Hardware stack and hardware architecture from a latency perspective.

• Knowledge of Linux kernel/OS internal.

ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS

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. Learn more 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. Learn more: https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html

© The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 2023. 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.

We Offer Best-In-Class Benefits

Healthcare & Medical Insurance

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.

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