Global Markets, FICC Systematic Market Making, Associate, Software Developer, Salt Lake City

Overview

On Site
Full Time

Skills

SMM
Parallel Computing
Banking
Algorithms
Research
Sales
HIS
Risk Management
FX
Algorithmic Trading
Collaboration
Management
Computer Science
Analytical Skill
Mathematics
Physics
Software Engineering
Communication
Trading
Multithreading
Concurrent Programming
Performance Tuning
Messaging
Network Protocols
Network
Java
JNI
Computer Hardware
Linux
Investment Banking
Securities
Investment Management
Training And Development
Finance
Recruiting

Job Details

Job Description

Global Markets, FICC Systematic Market Making, Associate, Software Developer, Salt Lake City

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 in FX. 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 FX asset classes (spot, NDFs, forwards, swaps) 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.
  • Good communication skills.

Experience of the following would be advantageous:
  • Securities/trading experience.
  • Multi-threaded/concurrent programming.
  • Java performance tuning.
  • Low-latency, including messaging, network protocols, network I/O in Java, JNI.
  • Hardware stack and hardware architecture from a latency perspective.
  • Know your way around a Linux terminal.

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.

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