Senior Software Engineer, Global Banking & Markets, Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading (GSET) New[...]

Goldman Sachs Bank AG; New York (NY); On-site; USD 130,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company seeks a Senior Software Engineer for its Global Banking & Markets division in New York. The role involves designing trading platforms, collaborating with teams, and leveraging modern technologies like C++ and Linux to drive innovation. Candidates should have a strong background in developing financial technology solutions and thriving in a fast-paced environment.

Benefits

Healthcare & Medical Insurance

Generous vacation entitlements

Financial Wellness & Retirement benefits

On-site fitness centers

Child Care & Family Care programs

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant work experience.
• Extensive experience with Linux operating system.
• Ability to work in a team.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain high-performance trading platforms.
• Understand US Cash and Options market structure.
• Communicate with traders and clients about features.

Skills

C++

Networking

Distributed systems

Strong communication skills

Education

Advanced degree in Computer Science or Financial Technology

Tools

Linux operating system

Job description

Senior Software Engineer, Global Banking & Markets, Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading (GSET) location_on New York, New York, United States

Opportunity Overview sitemap_outline CORPORATE TITLE Vice President language OFFICE LOCATION(S) New York assignment JOB FUNCTION Software Engineering account_balance DIVISION Global Banking & Markets monetization_on SALARY RANGE USD 130,000 - 250,000

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.

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.

Within our Global Banking & Markets business,Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading (GSET)provides services like Direct Market Access, enabling our customers to trade equities and listed options without delay.

Who We Look For

Our engineers are involved in the entire product life cycle, from working with users and product managers to determine requirements, collaborating with other engineers to develop new features, engaging with penetration testers to ensure security and data protection, to deploying your code to users across the globe. Our part of the team works with modern C++, as well as Java and Python, and uses a variety of technologies to solve specific problems. Within our team, you will have ample opportunities to be curious, to solve problems for our clients, and directly impact the success of our business.

We are looking for eager, nimble, and ambitious trading platform developers to join our growing team of visionaries, and drive Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading to achieve and exceed our goals.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain high-performance, yet nimble, adaptive, and resilient trading platforms for internal and external clients.
• Understand US Cash and Options market structure, regulations, and exchange service offerings and implement changes to these on an ongoing basis.
• Communicate with traders, sales, clients and compliance officers about new feature requests, explanation of existing features etc.

Basic Qualifications

• Advanced degree in relevant technical field such as Computer Science or Financial Technology.
• 5+ years of relevant work experience.
• Proficiency in C++
• Extensive experience with Linux operating system.
• Experience with networking and distributed systems, preferably including UDP multicast.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work in a team.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building systems with strict requirements for low-latency (microseconds count) and deterministic performance.
• Experience developing order management, exchange connectivity, and market data systems.

Salary Range
The expected base salary for this New York, New York, United States-based position is $130000-$250000. In addition, you may be eligible for a discretionary bonus if you are an active employee as of fiscal year-end.

Benefits
Goldman Sachs is committed to providing our people with valuable and competitive benefits and wellness offerings, as it is a core part of providing a strong overall employee experience. A summary of these offerings, which are generally available to active, non-temporary, full-time and part-time US employees who work at least 20 hours per week, can be found here .

Healthcare & Medical Insurance

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.

Financial Wellness & Retirement

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.

Health Services

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.

Fitness

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).

Child Care & Family Care

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.

Benefits at Goldman Sachs

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