Quant jobs / Goldman Sachs

Software Engineer – Electronic Market Making (Cash Equities)

A senior engineering role on a small team that makes markets in US equities and ETFs. You build and tune the low-latency platform that quotes, hedges and manages risk automatically.

What you’d work on

Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.

Profile and speed up the order-handling and quoting path of the market-making platform
Add safety checks and monitoring so automated strategies fail gracefully
Build and test new features that came out of strategy experiments
Run measurement and A/B-style experiments to see which engineering changes improve trading results
Keep up with exchange rules and market-structure changes that touch the system

What they ask for

Required

C/C++ software architecture
Multi-threaded programming and lock-free data structures
Distributed systems
CPU caches and memory-level optimisation
Reliable trading or critical infrastructure track record
Clear communication

Preferred

Low-latency messaging and TCP/UDP tuning
Linux latency tuning
Statistics and data science
Python with numpy and scikit-learn
Research infrastructure for large datasets

Education: Bachelor's or Master's in a STEM subject
Experience: 5 to 10 years building C/C++ software architecture
Languages and tools: C
C++
Python
Markets: equities

How to prepare

Write a lock-free queue in C++ and benchmark it against a mutex version
Study cache behaviour and measure the effect of data layout on a hot loop
Build a small limit order book simulator and measure its latency
Read about equity and ETF market structure and how exchanges route orders

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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with Goldman Sachs and doesn’t handle applications.