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Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading - Software Engineer 

Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading (GSET) is looking for motivated Software Engineers to deliver innovative solutions to challenging engineering problems for our business and clients. Building atop our existing trading technology stacks you will develop features supporting our best in class trading products. Join the team to participate in the creation and launch of exceptional products providing value to top clients across the industry. We are looking for eager, nimble and ambitious trading platform developers to join our growing team and drive Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading to achieve and exceed our goals.

Your Impact

As an analyst in the Platforms team your focus will be on building and maintaining our order management and exchange connectivity systems. Your responsibilities will include gathering requirements from internal/external clients, designing and developing features across our various trading platforms, focused on Direct Market Access and Market Data systems and deploying your solutions. Our global team interfaces with clients, sales, trading, compliance, legal and other strat & engineering teams in the firm on a regular basis and plays a critical role in sustaining Goldman Sach's Electronic Trading business.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain a high-performance, yet nimble and adaptive trading platforms for internal and external clients.
• Understand US Cash and Options market structure, regulations, exchange service offerings including order entry and market data, and implement changes to these on an on-going basis.
• Communication with traders, sales, clients and compliance officers about new feature requests, explanation of existing features etc.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering with 3+ years of relevant work experience
• Proficiency in C++ or another systems programming language
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms and design patterns
• Experience with Linux operating system
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work in a team

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with building systems with strict requirements for low-latency (microseconds count) and deterministic performance
• Experience with networking, UDP multicast and distributed systems
• Experience with developing order management and exchange connectivity or market data processing systems

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