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OUR IMPACT

Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading (GSET) strives to be the top provider in electronic trading by building superior technology and delivering high quality products by investing in people, platforms, and products. Join the team and participate in the development and launch of best-in-class products for top clients across the industry. We are looking for eager, nimble, and ambitious engineers to join our growing team of visionaries, and drive GSET to achieve and exceed our goals.

Job Description

OUR IMPACT

Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading (GSET) strives to be the top provider in electronic trading by building superior technology and delivering high quality products by investing in people, platforms, and products. Join the team and participate in the development and launch of best-in-class products for top clients across the industry. We are looking for eager, nimble, and ambitious engineers to join our growing team of visionaries, and drive GSET to achieve and exceed our goals.

YOUR IMPACT

The GSET Platform team build the core services and components of our electronic trading platform for our clients and trading desks, ranging from positions management & resource distribution through to client workflow management & controls. Our low latency platform is built with speed, reliability and resiliency in mind where every microsecond counts, and uptime is critical. We work directly with our traders & product development teams to build new functionality for clients,adapt the platform to meet regulatory & industry changes and expand into new markets.

As a member of the team, you will play an integral role on the trading floor. This is a dynamic, entrepreneurial team with a passion for technology and the markets, with individuals who thrive in a fast-paced changing environment. You should be willing to participate in the full product lifecycle from requirements gathering, design, implementation, testing, support, and monitoring.

Responsibilities

Design, build and maintain high-performance, high-availability, high-capacity, yet nimble and adaptive Java platforms satisfying a range of business needs.
Work in partnership with the wider engineering & product teams to design and implement best-in-class solutions.
Work closely with our global counterparts to ensure we’re building features and systems that can be reused and leverage work and experience from the other regions.

Skills & Experience We’re Looking For

BASIC SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS

Strong Java programming skills in a low latency / zero GC environment.
Excellent academic record in a relevant technical field, e.g. Comp Sci, Engineering, Mathematics or Physics.
High desire to produce organised, readable, tested and maintainable software.
Ability to balance multiple, time-sensitive projects while maintaining a longer term, strategic focus.
Effective communicator in both written and verbal mediums.

Beneficial Skills & Qualifications

Prior experience working on an electronic trading platform, e.g. reference data, market data & FIX.
Knowledge of Spring, Kafka, SQL and/or Linux.
Prior experience designing and implementing distributed systems modelling complex workflows.
Prior experience in the financial industry.
Understanding of common data structures and optimisations regarding memory and runtime performance.

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.

Seniority level

Seniority level
Associate

Employment type

Employment type
Full-time

Job function

Job function
Engineering and Information Technology

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