Vice President - Electronic Trading Engineering

Global Banking & Markets - Eq Futures SMM Eng - Vice President - Bengaluru

What We Do

At Goldman Sachs, we connect people, capital and ideas to help solve problems for our clients. We are a leading global financial services firm providing investment banking, securities and investment management services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals.

About Electronic Trading

Goldman Sachs offers a suite of electronic trading products and platforms designed to provide clients with efficient access to global markets. This also includes sophisticated execution and algorithmic trading strategies to optimize execution performance across different market conditions, and advanced analytics. These products cater to a wide range of asset classes, including equities, fixed income, currencies, and commodities. Goldman Sachs continually invests in its electronic trading infrastructure to provide clients with cutting-edge technology and a competitive edge in the global markets.

Your Impact

You will be working on building and enhancing platforms focused on electronic trading, market making and execution. You will work with other engineers and sales and trading teams to improve all aspects of execution, 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 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 

• Design, build and maintain high performance, low latency trading platform which can evolve and adapt to changes in our fast-paced, global business environment.
• 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.
• Manage work to balance the short-term needs of the business with strategic enhancements.
• Understand global market structure, regulations and exchange requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering 
• A deep passion for technology and software development
• Proficiency in either Java or C++
• Sound understanding of multi-threaded application design and development and experience with lock-free data structures
• Professional experience working with distributed systems
• Knowledge of CPU microarchitecture, caches and memory subsystems and experience with micro-optimizations
• Experience in low latency messaging, TCP/UDP tuning, Linux latency tunings is preferred
• Experience with low latency trading platform is preferable but not necessary
• Excellent communication skills
• A self-starter, should have ability to work independently as well as thrive in a team environment

Goldman Sachs Engineering Culture

At Goldman Sachs, our Engineers don’t just make things – we make things possible. Change the world by connecting people and capital with ideas. Solve the most challenging and pressing engineering problems for our clients. Join our engineering teams that build massively scalable software and systems, architect low latency infrastructure solutions, proactively guard against cyber threats, and leverage machine learning alongside financial engineering to continuously turn data into action. Create new businesses, transform finance, and explore a world of opportunity at the speed of markets.

Engineering is at the critical center of our business, and our dynamic environment requires innovative strategic thinking and immediate, real solutions. Want to push the limit of digital possibilities? Start here!

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Experience Level

Executive Level