OUR VALUE

Equity Derivatives Engineering work closely with the Equity Derivatives business at Goldman Sachs and have a wide set of responsibilities across a variety of products to scale automation of quoting, pricing, booking, and execution.

YOUR IMPACT

Engineering 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 global 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 
• Deliver high regulatory and controls framework to ensure our compliance with regulatory standards in high frequency trading applications
• 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 derivatives engineering team and use your engineering skills to impact business decisions
  
   

Basic Qualifications

• Excellent academic record in a relevant technical field such as computer science, physics, mathematics or engineering
• Strong programming skills in an object orientated or functional paradigm such as Java, C#, Python or JavaScript
• Entrepreneurial individual with self-management skills, able to handle multiple tasks and interact with global stakeholders
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  
   

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing and implementing distributed systems modelling complex and electronic workflows in finance
• Previous technical role working on or with a derivatives trading desk (irrespective of asset class)