VP, Systematic Market Making Engineer — London

Goldman Sachs Bank AG; Greater London; On-site; GBP 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Goldman Sachs is seeking an accomplished Software Engineer for the Systematic Market Making (SMM) group in London. You will help build low-latency electronic trading systems and participate in the full software lifecycle from design through deployment on a fast-paced trading floor, contributing to price formation and risk management across FICC.

The role emphasizes high-performance, deterministic software, collaboration with traders and other engineers, and hands-on work with Linux, JVM tuning,

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background with quantitative mindset.
• Proven ability to analyze data and derive actionable insights.
• Comfortable communicating technical topics to non-specialist audiences.
• History of productive interaction with sales, trading and technology teams.
• Experience building low-latency, deterministic distributed systems.
• Performance tuning of distributed systems and JVM environments.

Responsibilities

• Analyze trading system performance and identify areas for improvement.
• Generate ideas for system enhancements that drive commercial performance.
• Implement, test and deploy these ideas.
• Improve the safety and reliability of trading systems.
• Collaborate with other team members across engineering and trading desks.
• Balance short-term business needs with strategic enhancements.

Skills

Software engineering

Data analysis

Technical communication

Inter-team collaboration

Low-latency systems

Performance tuning

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Analytical field

Tools

Linux shell

Java/JVM

JNI

Job description

Goldman Sachs is seeking an accomplished Software Engineer for the Systematic Market Making (SMM) group in London. You will help build low-latency electronic trading systems and participate in the full software lifecycle from design through deployment on a fast-paced trading floor, contributing to price formation and risk management across FICC.

The role emphasizes high-performance, deterministic software, collaboration with traders and other engineers, and hands-on work with Linux, JVM tuning,