Goldman Sachs - Global Banking & Markets – Electronic Trading Platforms

About Goldman Sachs

At Goldman Sachs, we connect people, capital and ideas to help solve problems for our clients. We are a leading global financial services firm providing investment banking, securities and investment management services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals.

About Electronic Trading

Goldman Sachs offers a suite of electronic trading products and platforms designed to provide clients with efficient access to global markets. This also includes sophisticated execution and algorithmic trading strategies to optimize execution performance across different market conditions, and advanced analytics. These products cater to a wide range of asset classes, including equities, fixed income, currencies, and commodities. Goldman Sachs continually invests in its electronic trading infrastructure to provide clients with cutting-edge technology and a competitive edge in the global markets.

Your Impact

You will be working on building and enhancing platforms focused on electronic trading, market making and execution. You will work with other engineers and sales and trading teams to improve all aspects of execution, price-making and risk management. 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

- Design, build and maintain high performance, low latency trading platform which can evolve and adapt to changes in our fast-paced, global business environment.
- 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.
- Manage work to balance the short-term needs of the business with strategic enhancements.
- Understand global market structure, regulations and exchange requirements.





Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

- A deep passion for technology and software development

- Proficiency in C++

- Sound understanding of multi-threaded application design and development and experience with lock-free data structures

- Professional experience working with distributed systems

- Knowledge of CPU microarchitecture, caches and memory subsystems and experience with micro-optimizations

- Experience in low latency messaging, TCP/UDP tuning, Linux latency tunings is preferred

- Experience with low latency trading platform is preferable but not necessary

- Excellent communication skills

- A self-starter, should have ability to work independently as well as thrive in a team environment

Goldman Sachs Engineering Culture

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.

Engineering is at the critical center of our business, and our dynamic workplace requires innovative strategic thinking and immediate, real solutions. Want to push the limit of digital possibilities? Start here!

We Offer Best-In-Class Benefits

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.

Holiday & Vacation Policies

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

Read more about the full suite of class-leading benefits our firm has to offer.

Opportunity Overview

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CORPORATE TITLEAssociate

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OFFICE LOCATION(S)Bengaluru

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JOB FUNCTIONSoftware Engineering

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DIVISIONGlobal Banking & Markets

📌 GBM - Public Dept-Bengaluru-Associate-Software Engineering
🏢 Goldman Sachs
📍 Bengaluru