Futures Engineering Team - Software Engineer - GBM Public - NYC

What We Do

The Futures Engineering team at Goldman Sachs specializes in the design and development of software that supports a global, 24-hour trading business. We work alongside the business to build scalable and resilient applications used by our clients and internal Trading and Sales desks. 

We build systems capable of processing 1000s of messages per second and terabytes of data. We develop user-facing tooling and large-scale post-execution systems that help drive the success of the fast-paced Futures business. We build reference data services that expose the vast Futures product universe to our trading applications.  We design and implement software that directly integrates with other financial firms and Futures exchanges across the Street. 

The team is working on a multi-year uplift of the order trading workflow platform. This is a great opportunity to help build the next generation of high touch Futures trading applications at Goldman Sachs. In this role, you will work closely with the desk to design highly customizable and flexible tooling to support our sales traders’ as they execute orders on behalf of GS clients.

We are a team of full-stack software engineers empowered to utilize leading open-source software and proprietary GS technologies in order to build enterprise-grade systems that align with business goals. We work with a wide range of technologies; our stack is predominantly written in Java with Kafka-based messaging and Hadoop/HBasebased persistent stores. We also work heavily with the React framework for front-end application development and rely on a git-based SDLC.

The Futures Agency business at Goldman Sachs is responsible for providing our clients with electronic order execution on Futures exchanges located across the globe. We offer GS clients both low-latency direct market access and a customizable high-touch sales trader workflow. We utilize proprietary algorithms to execute our clients’ orders and offer many post-execution services to help our clients better manage their risk.

Your Opportunity

We are looking for a hands-on software engineer that can excel in the end-to-end development process, gathering requirements from sales and trading desks, designing solutions, creating execution plans, and implementing, testing and delivering high-quality results.

You will have the opportunity to work with large-scale distributed systems that have numerous touchpoints with a variety of internal and external teams.

You will have the opportunity to work both independently and collaboratively within teams, demonstrating the ability to deliver individually, while also supporting group initiatives to achieve shared goals.

The ideal candidate will bring an agile mindset and be familiar with technical standards and best practices.

Be given a platform to contribute fresh ideas and innovative solutions to an ever changing fast passed front office problems.

Qualifications

• BS degree or higher in Engineering field, preferably Computer Science
• 1-3 years of software engineering experience
• Java development experience
• UI development experience
• Familiarity with large scale software architecture and design
• Strong communication skills

The Futures Agency business at Goldman Sachs is responsible for providing our clients with electronic order execution on Futures exchanges located across the globe. We offer GS clients both low-latency direct market access and a customizable high-touch sales trader workflow. We utilize proprietary algorithms to execute our clients’ orders and offer many post-execution services to help our clients better manage their risk.