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About the Role
Engineers in the Systematic Market Making (SMM) team develop and employ automated trading strategies, building complex parallel computing architectures, electronic trading tools, and models to explain market behavior and predict price movement. This role involves building foundational technologies for algorithms on global markets and supporting research and analysis.
Responsibilities
- Analyze trading system performance and identify areas for improvement.
- Generate ideas for system enhancements that drive commercial performance.
- Implement, test, and deploy system enhancements.
- Improve the safety and reliability of trading systems.
- Work constructively in collaboration with other team members.
- Manage work to balance short-term business needs with strategic enhancements.
Requirements
- Strong academic background in Computer Science or an analytical field (e.g., Mathematics, Physics, Engineering).
- Strong software engineering background.
- Proven ability to analyze data and draw useful commercial conclusions.
- Comfortable communicating technical topics to non-specialist audiences.
- History of productive interaction with other groups, especially sales, trading, and other technology teams.
- Experience building systems with strict requirements for low-latency (microseconds count) and deterministic performance.
- Experience with performance tuning/optimization of distributed systems.
- Proficiency in using a Linux shell.
Skills
- Securities/trading experience (preferred)
- Multi-threaded/concurrent programming
- Just-in-time compilation/code path optimization
- Memory management strategies
- JVM tuning for low-latency
- Low-latency messaging
- Network protocols
- Network I/O in Java
- JNI
- Hardware stack and hardware architecture from a latency perspective
- Knowledge of Linux kernel/OS internals
Location
- Global
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Not specified
Education Level
- Computer Science degree or equivalent in an analytical field
Benefits
- Training and development opportunities
- Firmwide networks
- Wellness programs
- Personal finance offerings
- Mindfulness programs
About the Company
- Goldman Sachs is a leading global investment banking, securities, and investment management firm founded in 1869.
- Headquartered in New York, with offices worldwide.
- Committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion.
- Offers opportunities for professional and personal growth.
Equal Opportunity
- Goldman Sachs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veterans status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
- Committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process.