Quant jobs / Goldman Sachs

Software Engineer – Electronic Market Making (ETF Initiative)

A senior C++ role building the core trading infrastructure for a new ETF market-making business. Research and production are not separated, so the engineer also helps shape strategy.

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.

Design the foundation of the new ETF trading and data infrastructure
Write custom low-level components for memory, concurrency and speed
Move changes from testing to production quickly without hurting robustness
Extend the architecture for later phases such as international ETFs
Contribute ideas to trading strategy decisions

What they ask for

Required

Expert C++
Architecting high-performance trading systems from scratch
Memory management and concurrency
Performance optimisation
Production robustness
STEM degree

Preferred

Background in telecom, physics or maths research environments
Research infrastructure for very large data
Optimising low-latency trading components
Statistics and data science
Python with numpy and scikit-learn

Education: Bachelor's or Master's in a STEM subject (computer science, physics, maths or engineering preferred)
Experience: 5 to 10 years of C/C++ software architecture
Languages and tools: C++
Python
Markets: equities

How to prepare

Build a C++ order book with a custom memory pool and measure allocation cost
Write a multi-threaded market data handler and profile it
Learn how ETF creation and redemption link ETF prices to the underlying basket
Study NUMA, cache lines and false sharing

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