GBM - Public, Electronic Cash Market Making, Quantitative Engineering, Vice President - New York
Goldman Sachs10 hours ago
Base Salary
$155k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and build foundational trading infrastructure for the firm’s ETF electronic market-making initiative.
- Develop bespoke high-performance trading systems and data infrastructure from scratch.
- Apply low-level system design, memory management, concurrency, and performance optimization techniques.
- Optimize high-volume, low-latency trading components and support rapid testing-to-production implementation.
- Maintain operational robustness while evolving the architecture for future international ETF expansion.
- Contribute to strategy decisions beyond technical implementation and collaborate transparently with the team.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a STEM discipline, preferably Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, or Engineering.
- 5 to 10 years of experience developing software architecture in C/C++.
- Expert-level C++ proficiency; candidates primarily experienced in Java, managed languages, or cloud-native tooling will not be considered.
- Demonstrated experience architecting and building high-performance trading systems and data infrastructure from scratch.
- Strong low-level systems design skills, including memory management, concurrency, and performance optimization.
- Preferred experience in Telecom, Physics research, or Mathematics research environments.
- Preferred experience building high-performance research infrastructure for very large data inputs.
- Familiarity with statistics, data-science methodologies, Python, NumPy, and scikit-learn.
Benefits
- Competitive benefits and wellness offerings are generally available to active, non-temporary, full-time and part-time US employees working at least 20 hours per week.
- The New York, NY position may include a discretionary bonus for active employees as of fiscal year-end.
- On-site location: New York, NY, United States.
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.