Quant jobs / Goldman Sachs

Systematic Market Making Trader (Trader Who Codes) – Equities

An analyst role on a small team that runs automated market-making strategies across cash equities, futures and options. As a trader who codes, you focus on strategy, signals and daily risk.

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.

Work on the portfolio trading strategy of the systematic market maker
Develop quantitative signals and test them on market data
Handle day-to-day risk management of the automated books
Write Python or Java tooling to investigate behaviour and ship quick fixes

What they ask for

Required

Bachelor's in computer science, engineering or equivalent
Coding in Python and/or Java
Experience with agentic coding tools
Fast, accurate problem solving
Written and verbal communication

Education: Bachelor's in computer science or engineering, or equivalent
Experience: Entry-level analyst; no years stated
Languages and tools: Python
Java
Markets: equities, futures, options

How to prepare

Build a market-making simulation with inventory risk and signal skew
Practise delta hedging across stock, futures and options
Write a fast analysis script on trade data and present the findings briefly
Learn how internalisation and one-delta flow work

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