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Goldman SachsWe are seeking a highly skilled and experienced FICC Electronic Trading Systems Engineer to join our dynamic team. This pivotal role involves designing, developing, and optimizing a strategic, high-performance platform for real-time pricing, quoting, and lifecycle automation across various FICC derivatives products. The successful candidate will have a proven background in building large-scale distributed systems, expertise in electronic trading concepts, hands-on experience with FIX protocols, a keen interest in leveraging AI tooling to enhance development workflows and a desire to be part of building the best-in-industry market making capability.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Quantitative Finance, or a related technical discipline. - 3+ years of professional experience in software development, with a significant focus on electronic trading systems, large-scale distributed platforms, and automation solutions. - Proven expertise in electronic trading concepts, including market microstructure, RFQ/RFT workflows, auto-quoting, charge models and low-latency system design. - In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with FIX protocol versions (e.g., FIX 4.2, 4.4, 5.0 SP2), including message parsing, session management, and custom tag implementation. - Strong programming skills in Java (commercial experience required), with additional proficiency in Python for data analytics and AI. - Excellent object-oriented analysis and design skills. - Strong knowledge of data structures and algorithms. - Experience with real-time data processing, distributed systems, and multi-threaded programming. - Expert understanding of FICC derivatives products, financial markets, and trading workflows, particularly in pricing, quoting, and lifecycle automation. - Familiarity with automated testing, DevOps, and Continuous Deployment practices. - Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills, including experience speaking to technical and business audiences and working globally. - Comfortable multi-tasking, managing multiple stakeholders, and working as part of a global team.
- Experience in NoSQL data stores, e.g., Cassandra, MongoDB, or Elastic. - Experience in modern message-oriented middleware, e.g., Kafka. - Experience in debugging complex distributed systems. - Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) for trading infrastructure. - Knowledge of network protocols and low-latency networking techniques. - Familiarity with kdb+/Q or other time-series databases. - Experience working directly with trading and sales users and converting their requirements into actionable solutions.
- We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance. - We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year. - We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities. - We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices. - To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount). - We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.
