Global Banking & Markets, FICC Trading Platform Software Engineer, Associate/ Vice President, Singapore
Goldman Sachs4 days ago
Singapore, SingaporeSenior
Responsibilities
- Own architecture, delivery, and production health for FICC pricing, risk, quoting, and automation platform areas.
- Set technical direction for a multi-year public-cloud migration, including connectivity, identity, authentication, infrastructure-as-code, deployment topology, and cutover strategy.
- Decompose legacy messaging and monolithic components into resilient microservices without introducing trading-desk regressions.
- Establish reliability practices covering SLOs, capacity and latency budgets, observability, tracing, progressive rollouts, incident response, and post-mortems.
- Build safe automation through testing strategies, CI/CD, static analysis, and quality gates.
- Represent the platform to global engineering and business stakeholders across multiple jurisdictions and time zones.
- Evaluate AI-assisted engineering and agentic tooling for production-critical platform development.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience for Associate or 8+ years for Vice President, including complex systems in production-critical environments.
- Demonstrated ownership of substantial systems or workstreams from architecture and design through implementation and production operation.
- Deep expertise in modern Java and the JVM, including concurrency, memory management, garbage collection, profiling, and performance diagnosis.
- Strong distributed-systems knowledge, including consistency, failure modes, idempotency, exactly-once semantics, backpressure, partitioning, and recovery.
- Experience with event-driven and streaming architectures, asynchronous or reactive service frameworks, public cloud, containers, orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code.
- Practical experience with service connectivity and edge security, including reverse proxies, service mesh, TLS/mTLS, certificate lifecycle, OAuth2/OIDC, and JWT authentication and authorization.
- Strong production-operations experience with metrics, distributed tracing, structured logging, alerting, and incident handling.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, design-document writing, and communication with senior technical and business audiences.
- Ability to own concurrent workstreams and stakeholder groups across time zones, plus genuine interest in fixed income, rates, credit, FX, or commodities.
- Preferred qualifications include front-office trading technology, kdb+/q or comparable time-series platforms, quantitative model production engineering, SRE or platform engineering, legacy-to-cloud migrations in regulated environments, TypeScript/React, diverse data stores, AI-assisted development tooling, and experience across APAC, EMEA, and Americas teams.
Benefits
- Goldman Sachs offers training and development opportunities, firmwide networks, wellness and personal finance offerings, and mindfulness programs.
- The employer provides reasonable accommodations during the recruiting process for candidates with special needs or disabilities.
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About Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs is a global financial services firm that provides investment banking, securities trading, and asset and wealth management to corporations, financial institutions, governments, and individuals. Its businesses generate revenue from advisory and underwriting fees, trading and financing, and management fees on client assets. Founded in 1869 and headquartered in New York City, it operates worldwide and is listed on the NYSE under the ticker GS.