Global Banking & Markets - Eq Futures SMM Eng - Vice President

You will be working on a team focused on electronic market making and execution. You will work with other engineers and traders to improve all aspects of price-making, risk management and execution. You ll do this with a keen eye on performance, guided by a robust measurement framework and lots of experimentation. You will have an opportunity to develop a deep understanding of how GS interacts with some of the most dynamic and liquid markets in the world.

Responsibilities & Qualifications

Principal 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.
• Work constructively in collaboration with other team members.
• Manage work to balance the short-term needs of the business with strategic enhancements.

Experience/Skills

• Strong academic background in Computer Science or an analytical field such as Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, etc.
• Strong software engineering background.
• Proven ability to analyze data and draw useful commercial conclusions.
• Good communication skills.

Experience of the following would be advantageous

• Securities/trading experience.
• Multi-threaded/concurrent programming.
• Java/C++ performance tuning.
• Low-latency systems, including messaging, network protocols, network I/O in Java, C/C++, JNI.
• Hardware stack and hardware architecture from a latency perspective.
• Know your way around a Linux terminal.