Global Banking & Markets, Electronic Trading Quantitative Software Engineer, Analyst/Associate, London
On site
London, United Kingdom
Full Time
26-02-2025
Job Specifications
Job Description
GLOBAL BANKING AND 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 (GBM), 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 and execution. You will work with other engineers and traders to improve all aspects of price-making, risk management and execution. You’ll do this with a keen eye on performance, guided by a robust measurement framework and lots of experimentation. You 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.
Good communication skills.
Experience Of The Following Would Be Advantageous
Securities/trading experience.
Multi-threaded/concurrent programming.
Java/C++ performance tuning.
Low-latency systems, including messaging, network protocols, network I/O in Java, C/C++, JNI.
Hardware stack and hardware architecture from a latency perspective.
Know your way around a Linux terminal.
About the Company
At Goldman Sachs, we believe progress is everyone’s business. That’s why we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, Goldman Sachs is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices in all major financial centers around the world. More about our company can be found at www.goldmansachs.com For insights on developments currently shaping markets, industries and t... Know more
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