Futures Engineering
Goldman Sachs Futures Electronic Trading offers a best-in-class comprehensive suite of trading strategies to help clients achieve their trading objectives and navigate a variety of market conditions leveraging historical analyses, quantitative models, and real-time market information. These strategies are built on a highly distributed, scalable, low latency trading platform, which processes billions of transactions daily in the low microsecond range, with minimal jitter.
Our engineers are responsible for designing, building, and maintaining this trading platform as well as the strategies running on the platform, in a collaborative environment. The software our engineers write is of a very high standard: it is client and market facing with real time SLAs and can have high financial and regulatory impact. Some engineers focus on implementing the platform, its surrounding ecosystem and order management workflows, writing highly performant code and optimizing its interaction with the hardware and infrastructure it is executing on. Others work on building the trading models, signals and algorithmic logic which constitute the trading strategies.
Job Summary \& Responsibilities
As a Full Stack Developer in the Futures Technology team, your focus will be on the development of front end and backend applications as part of effort to uplift technology stack and re architecture of applications which are used by clients and traders for trading Futures \& Options in Global markets. Primary responsibility also includes providing level 3 support and production release of Futures applications and systems.
SKILL/EXPERIENCE
Basic Qualifications
We are looking for a skilled full-stack developer with strong communication skills to join our team and help work on key initiatives. We expect you to be a self-starter and eager to solve complex problems with guidance from senior members in the team. Our team promotes a culture of innovation and creative thinking to build modern robust systems. Effectively meeting the demands of our challenging mandate requires a passion for learning as well as deep understanding and experience across a wide array of technical competencies.
Bachelor’s / master’s degree in computer science or a closely related field
Minimum 1 year (for Analyst)/ 3 years (for Associate) of experience in software development
A solid understanding of object orientated programming skills (Java or any other OO technology) including data structures and algorithms
Sound SDLC practices and ability to debug and troubleshoot problems
Energetic, self-directed, and self-motivated
Experience collaborating in global teams and possesses strong interpersonal skills
Preferred Qualifications
Familiarity with Git, awareness of CI/CD and other modern SDLC practice
Familiarity with Multi-threading, Dependency Injection, Java Collections
Familiarity with Rest API development
Experience in User Interface design and development (Angular / React, HTML5, NodeJS)
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
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Opportunity Overview
CORPORATE TITLE
Analyst
OFFICE LOCATION(S)
Singapore
JOB FUNCTION
Business Unit COO
DIVISION
Global Banking \& Markets