Global Banking & Markets - Software Engineer - Systematic Market Making -Vice President - London
Goldman Sachs17 hours ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Analyze trading-system performance and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Generate and implement system enhancements that improve commercial performance.
- Test and deploy trading-system changes.
- Improve the safety and reliability of automated trading systems.
- Collaborate with engineers, traders, sales teams, and other technology groups.
- Balance short-term business needs with strategic system enhancements.
- Support the software lifecycle from inception through development, release, and ongoing support.
Requirements
- Strong academic background in Computer Science or an analytical field such as Mathematics, Physics, or Engineering.
- Strong software engineering background.
- Ability to analyze data and draw useful commercial conclusions.
- Comfort communicating technical topics to non-specialist audiences.
- Experience interacting productively with sales, trading, and technology teams.
- Experience building systems with microsecond-level latency and deterministic performance requirements.
- Experience tuning and optimizing distributed systems.
- Proficiency with a Linux shell.
- Preferred experience with securities or trading systems, multithreaded or concurrent programming, just-in-time compilation, code-path optimization, memory-management strategies, JVM tuning, low-latency messaging, network protocols, Java network I/O, JNI, hardware architecture for latency optimization, and Linux kernel or operating-system internals.
Benefits
- Goldman Sachs provides training and development opportunities, firmwide networks, benefits, wellness programs, personal finance offerings, and mindfulness programs.
- Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates with special needs or disabilities during the recruiting process.
- This is a London-based role; no specific remote or hybrid arrangement is stated.
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.