The Equity Derivatives Engineering team works very closely with Equity Derivatives business at Goldman Sachs and has a wide set of responsibilities across a variety of products to scale automation of quoting, pricing, booking, and execution.
Automation is at the core of our derivatives business, with clients pushing for more electronic flows, increased volumes on a daily basis, better data and analytics tools, while at the same time demanding high quality client experience throughout the entire trade lifecycle. Our team focuses on building market leading engineering platforms with solid APIs, high throughput and service orientated architecture. The innovative solutions we develop are externalized to our clients as part of the core Marquee offering. Our function is critical to the future of the business at Goldman Sachs and represents a significant growth area across the firm.
This is a great opportunity to join a dynamic team where you will both learn about and transform the business by applying your engineering skills to automate key business decisions.
Role Responsibilities
- Develop unified global cross-asset derivatives quoting platform with electronic and client connectivity;
- Integrate with external platforms and clients using industry standard protocols such as FIX and REST;
- Build rich, high-throughput and performance-sensitive user applications using the latest web and server side technologies such as React/Java;
- Use both open source and internal proprietary technologies to build cutting edge platforms;
- Work closely with sales and trading to deliver innovative solutions to automate their manual workflows;
- Be part of the vibrant global automation team and use your engineering skills to impact business decisions.
Technology Stack
- Java;
- Vert.x;
- Jersey;
- Kafka;
- Mongo;
- Hazelcast;
- ElasticSearch;
- Git.
Sre
- Gitlab CI/CD;
- One click deployment;
- Prometheus;
- Grafana.
Basic Qualifications
- Strong programming skills in an object orientated or functional paradigm such as Java, C#, Python or JavaScript;
- Excellent object oriented or functional analysis and design skills;
- Entrepreneurial individual with self-management skills, able to handle multiple tasks and interact with global stakeholders;
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in designing and implementing distributed systems;
- Experience in modelling complex workflows.
Nice To Have
- JavaScript (ideally React) experience;
- NoSQL databases such as MongoDb and Elastic Search;
- Previous technical role working on or with a derivatives trading desk (irrespective of asset class).
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