Software Engineering - Associate - Global Banking & Markets

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, which is comprised of our Technology Division and global strategists groups, 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.

The Opportunity:

We own, evolve and support the technology platforms that handle the post-execution processing for the Securities Execution, Prime Clearing, and Prime Brokerage businesses. This includes exchange and broker trade processing, internal firm/firm trades and client delivery across physical and synthetic products. We are at the start of a multi-year convergence program to deliver all of these businesses onto a single, high scalable platform, enabling business growth with reduced operational costs.

We’re looking for highly technical, commercially minded, software engineers who enjoy seeing things done differently to join us on this exciting journey.

About the team:

Our team consists of 20 engineers in India and around 80 globally.  Almost all of our projects are cross-location and cross-function, meaning we work directly with Front Office, Operations, and our Engineering colleagues from those areas, across the wider firm.

We work directly with Operations and Securities sales/trading, to design and implement, a wide range of functions including trade aggregators, trade matchers, payment systems, intercompany trade booking and settlement systems, and connectivity to exchanges, counterparties and vendors.  Our Exception Workflow and Business Intelligence tooling allows our Operations teams to respond to client enquiries and monitor service levels.

Our Post Execution platform consists of a variety of applications that demand high throughput, performance, and availability, including our strategic new Post Execution Sequencer platform which is a brand new/greenfield initiative to converge all our businesses onto a single technology platform, to proving much better scalability, improved resiliency and reducing the time needed to develop and deliver new features.  

Highly developed analytical and technical skills, combined with a commercial and collaborative approach to problem solving, are essential to our success. 

Responsibilities:

• Design, build and maintain a high-performance, high-availability, high-capacity, yet nimble and adaptive platform for transaction cost analytics and execution research.
• Develop highly reliable data ingestion processes to consume large volumes of data emitted by trading and market data systems. 
• Design distributed computation infrastructure and libraries to run parallelized queries over large volumes of data.
• Use data to guide decision-making, developing or enhancing tools as necessary to collect it.
• Work collaboratively with global teams, driving engineering and business priorities.

Skills and experience we are looking for:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science or engineering or equivalent experience
• Core Java Developer with at least 3 years of experience
• Familiarity with Test Driven Development and Business Driven Development
• Experience with OO design, performant data structures and algorithms.
• Experience of databases (SQL, NoSQL)
• Linux / Unix skills including scripting (shell)
• Beneficial background knowledge/experience:
  • Experience of sequencer/event-based architectures.
  • Web development skills (Vert-x, NodeJS, etc.).
  • Knowledge of financial markets.