GLOBAL BANKING AND MARKETS
Our core value is building strong relationships with our institutional clients, which include corporations, financial service providers, and fund managers. We help them buy and sell financial products on exchanges around the world, raise funding, and manage risk. This is a dynamic, entrepreneurial team with a passion for the markets, with individuals who thrive in fast-paced, changing environments and are energized by a bustling trading floor.
WHAT WE DO
Engineers in the Marquee Market Data team play an integral role on the trading floor and within Marquee. We are a cross-asset team that work closely with the desks to source and distribute market data used in pricing and risk for the firm and its clients. We build complex parallel computing architectures that power pricing, and market making that help run the firm’s core businesses. We also build strategic modelling frameworks and trader marking tools that help desks create market data for the firm. In a team of energetic, self-motivated individuals, we need someone who can take the initiative at any stage of the software cycle, from inception, through development, to release and support. This role also interacts with a variety of other strat, trading and engineering teams. The structure is flat, and the successful candidate will be able to manage his or her time to have maximum impact.
YOUR IMPACT
As a Market Data Engineer, you will be building the foundational technologies that source and distribute market data for markets around the world. You will be working on a team focused on building the best-in-class market data infrastructure. You will work with other engineers and traders to improve all aspects of our platform. You’ll do this with a keen eye on performance, guided by a robust measurement framework and lots of experimentation. You will have an opportunity to develop a deep understanding of Goldman Sachs’ securities business flows.
RESPONSIBILITIES AND QUALIFICATIONS
Responsibilities
Contribute to architectural decisions and implementation of our market data platforms, both strategically and day to day
Drive our platform development using a range of technologies, and collaborate closely with other quant, trading and core engineering teams
Analyse platform performance and identify areas for improvement
Improve the safety and reliability of our market data systems
Manage work to balance the short-term needs of the business with strategic enhancements
Basic Qualifications
Excellent academic record computer science or in a relevant quantitative field such as physics, mathematics, statistics, engineering
Strong programming skills in an object oriented or functional paradigm such as Java or C++
Self-starter with strong self-management skills, ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver in a high-pressure environment
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Experience of the following would be advantageous:
Minimum 1 year (for Analyst)/ 2 years (for Associate) of experience in Java 8 or above
Experience building multi-threaded/concurrent or low-latency systems
Prior experience in building trading/front office platforms
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
Associate
OFFICE LOCATION(S)
Singapore
JOB FUNCTION
Software Engineering
DIVISION
Global Banking \& Markets