Goldman Sachs jobs - Credit FICC SMM - Ion Eplatform Strats

GLOBAL MARKETS

Our core value is building strong relationships with our institutional clients, which include corporations, financial service providers, and fund managers. We help them buy and sell financial products on exchanges around the world, raise funding, and manage risk. This is a dynamic, entrepreneurial team with a passion for the markets, with individuals who thrive in fast-paced, changing environments and are energized by a bustling trading floor.

What We Do

RESPONSIBILITIES AND QUALIFICATIONS 

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. Goldman Sachs Engineers are innovators and problem-solvers, building solutions in risk management, big data, mobile and more. We look for creative collaborators who evolve, adapt to change, and thrive in a fast-paced global environment. Want to push the limit of digital possibilities? Start here.

Fixed Income, Currency, and Commodities (FICC) Engineering plays a key role in the firm’s
ability to provide liquidity and execution services for institutional clients around the world, two important revenue drivers for the firm. In FICC Engineering 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.

Who We Look For

ION ePlatform sits at the nexus of systematic pricing, human user-interface and client flow, connecting our clients with automated and human traders in a seamless, robust fashion. ION ePlatform Strats plays a crucial role in driving GS Fixed Income forward. As the Fixed Income market rapidly electronifies, team builds robust, scalable, and maintainable systems to drive this evolution. We are a global team using Agile methodologies. You will work directly with team members in London, NYC, Bangalore, Sydney, Hong Kong and Tokyo in cross geographic, motivated and dynamic teams.

Candidates must be strong developers with a curiosity to understand financial markets.

Job Summary

• Design and develop distributed real-time trading systems for FICC business
• Understand existing systems and flows and uplift them to a modern, scalable, micro service architecture with minimal disruption to business
• Partner with global team to execute on business objectives 
  
  

Basic Qualifications

• STEM degree
• Thorough knowledge of Java programming
• Strong knowledge of object oriented programming, data structures, algorithms and design patterns
• Experience with Linux operating system internals and/or networking concepts
• Strong communication skills 
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in working in an Agile environment
• Experience with real-time distributed systems
• Multi-threaded/concurrent programming
• Low-latency messaging, network protocols, network I/O in Java
• Strong interpersonal skills, drive, and ownership
• Knowledge of financial markets