Securities, Equities Electronic Trading, Cash Algo Strats, Algos and Smart Order Routing, Developer

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Job Summary & Responsibilities

Are you interested in using your programming and analytical skills in the fast paced and exciting world of electronic trading? Are you interested in being part of a dynamic team, building cutting-edge low latency automated trading strategies? If yes, read on!

We are strategists on the Equities Algo Trading team, within the Securities Division of Goldman Sachs. Throughout the Securities Division, strategists are using quantitative and technological techniques to solve complex business problems. As a strategist in our team, you will play an integral role on the trading floor. You will be involved in designing and developing complex parallel computing architectures, electronic trading tools, and advanced algorithms.

Our core value is building strong relationships with our institutional clients, which include corporations, financial service providers, and fund managers. We help them buy and sell financial products on exchanges around the world, raise funding, and manage risk. This is a dynamic, entrepreneurial team with a passion for the markets, with individuals who thrive in fast-paced, changing environments and are energized by a bustling trading floor.

The Equities Algo Trading Strats team is responsible for developing highly specialized trading and routing strategies across markets in the US, Canada and South America. Our work includes research, design, implementation, testing, support, and monitoring trading performance for strategies running on low latency automated trading platforms.

Our team has a strong focus on providing a best in class algorithmic trading offering to Goldman Sachs’ electronic trading clients. With an objective of improving execution quality in a dynamic marketplace, there is a rapid pace of software development and deployment. The team consists of self-guided pragmatic individuals who are motivated to change the status quo in calculated ways.

As part of our team, you will be empowered to design, build and maintain a high-performance, high-availability, high-capacity, yet nimble and adaptive platform for algorithms and smart order routing. You will use data science principles to guide decision-making; developing or enhancing tools as necessary (a data driven approach). You will have the opportunity to understand Equities market rules, regulations, exchange service offerings and implement changes to these on an on-going basis. You will also communicate with traders, clients and compliance officers about new feature requests, explanation of existing features etc.

Basic Qualifications

- Bachelors or Masters Degree in Computer Science or engineering
- Thorough knowledge of C++, Java or an equivalent programming language, and object oriented software engineering concepts
- Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms and design patterns
- Demonstrated ability for performance measurement and optimization across software, hardware and network components
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work in a team

Preferred Qualifications

- Low latency or real time software development
- Data driven analysis and statistical modeling of problems
- SQL, Python, R, agile SDLC practices

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