Global Banking & Markets, Java Back End Software Engineer - Securities Trade Processing, Associates, London

MORE ABOUT THIS JOB

What we do

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

The team comprises 75 global talented engineers and London is the key hub of our business stakeholders. Almost all of our projects are cross-location and cross-function where we work directly with Front Office, Operations, Legal, Tax, 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 of 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 generated by trading and market data systems.  Design distributed computation infrastructure and libraries to run parallelized queries over large volumes of data. Design, build and maintain applications to monitor performance of trading strategies in relation to the market in real time. Use data to guide decision-making, developing or enhancing tools as necessary to collect it. Communication with traders, sales, clients and compliance officers about new feature requests, explanation of existing features etc.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Bachelors or Master’s degree in computer science or engineering or equivalent experience Core Java Developer with 3-7 years of experience Experience of developing and managing high volume, distributed, real-time transaction processing systems 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.

ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world. We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at /careers. We’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process.