Global Banking & Markets, FICC Asia Macro, Software Engineer, Associate, Singapore

Fixed Income, Currency, and Commodities (FICC) Technology plays a key role in the firm’s ability to help institutional clients buy and sell financial instruments on liquidity venues around the world, an important revenue driver for the firm. In FICC Technology we use both open source industry standard and internal proprietary technologies to build cutting edge platforms for pricing, execution, and control over each of these millions of transactions.

FICC Macro technology organization supports the business interests of the Interest Rates and Foreign exchange businesses in Asia. This team has the unique position of spanning two of the fastest growing and diverse business units within the Fixed Income Currencies and Commodities Division. We are looking to grow our team with motivated and experienced technologists eager to work in a fast-paced environment.

We provide the opportunity to work alongside a team of passionate, driven engineers who enjoy working with the best and brightest talent, pushing technological boundaries and discovering new possibilities on a day-to-day basis. We have a deep pipeline of business driven project requests aimed at automating trading workflows and increasing our competitive advantage with our clients. Our team utilizes a rich software stack comprised of both open source and proprietary technologies (Slang/SecDb). We use Java to build distributed services and are in the process of redefining how we perform inter-process communication in our services oriented architecture.

We are actively migrating away from conventional enterprise solutions like TIBCO Rendezvous (RV) to modern solutions for scalable microservices architectures. We are investing heavily in our globally, distributed systems, data analytics & UI technologies to deliver a modern experience for our sales and trading teams across market making, market data aggregation, trade booking & risk management. The candidate will have a unique opportunity to learn how the Interest Rates and FX businesses operate through close interactions with traders, sales, strategists, and Franchise managers.

HOW YOU WILL FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL

• You like writing elegant, readable and well-documented code, with unquestionable test coverage
• You enjoy working as part of a team responsible for the development and ownership of a key functional business deliverable
• You thrive when engaged in complex problem solving or analyzing large datasets, and excel at optimizing systems/software for performance, availability, scalability and maintainability
• You exhibit a hunger to learn new things (business/technologies) and are excited to engage in GS developed platforms and languages
• You excel at building strong relationships with our business partners, implementing quality improvements to our products
• You are excited to grow your career with us, inclusive of opportunities to lead projects and teams over time

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or related technical discipline
• Experience in software development, including a clear understanding of data structures, algorithms, software design and core programming concepts
• Min. 3 yrs of experience in one or more programming languages (e.g. Java, JavaScript, Python, C++)
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Can apply an entrepreneurial approach and passion to problem solving and product development
• Comfortable multi-tasking, managing multiple stakeholders and working as part of a team
• Excellent communication skills including experience speaking to technical and business audiences and working globally
• Interest in fixed income products

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE

• Experience in SRE beneficial but not essential
• Experience in fixed income asset classes
• Knowledge of trading technologies in the front-office of a trading organization
• Strong programming experience in Java and modern web technologies (JavaScript, HTML5 etc.) advantageous

 

Fixed Income, Currency, and Commodities (FICC) Technology plays a key role in the firm’s ability to help institutional clients buy and sell financial instruments on liquidity venues around the world, an important revenue driver for the firm. In FICC Technology we use both open source industry standard and internal proprietary technologies to build cutting edge platforms for pricing, execution, and control over each of these millions of transactions. FICC Macro technology organization supports the business interests of the Interest Rates and Foreign exchange businesses in Asia. This team has the unique position of spanning two of the fastest growing and diverse business units within the Fixed Income Currencies and Commodities Division. We are looking to grow our team with motivated and experienced technologists eager to work in a fast-paced environment.