FICC Core Trading Services Developer recruitment

WHO WE ARE

Goldman Sachs is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of services worldwide to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and high net-worth individuals.
Founded in 1869, it is one of the oldest and largest investment banking firms. The firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in London, Bangalore, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong and other major financial centres around the world.
We are committed to growing our distinctive Culture and holding to our core values which always place our client's interests first. These values are reflected in our Business Principles, which emphasise integrity, commitment to excellence, innovation and teamwork.

The FICC Core Trading Services team is responsible for front-office trade booking and notification software that is shared across many of the trading businesses in the firm.

The team’s current areas of focus include:

- Migrating our trade booking and notification services to work with SecDb, the firm’s strategic trading and risk management platform
- Building scalability to handle everything from the lowest-volume voice-trading businesses all the way up to the highest-volume electronic-trading businesses
- Working with other teams to determine what data is needed by business-facing trading and risk applications, and enhancing our services to meet the needs of those applications
- Coordinating the elimination of legacy software with desk-facing IT teams

The team also provides consultation and support for our software offerings, often working with other IT and business teams throughout the firm.

This role is for a developer to work on projects in the above focus areas.  This includes development in the firm’s proprietary language/platform (Slang/SecDb), as well as work on Java-based services.  The role also includes second-line technical support.

 Qualifications
- 1+ years experience
- Solid knowledge of at least one programming language
- Solid knowledge of algorithms
- Quick at adapting to new businesses and technologies
- Works effectively in a team based organization
- Good oral and written communication skills
- Self-motivated and driven
- Exceptional analytical skills and a strong desire to learn
- Financial experience is not a requirement but you should be interested and motivated to learn about the products and flows

Preferred Qualifications
- Java, C/C++, and/or relational database experience
- Familiarity with object-oriented design concepts

Goldman Sachs is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to the principle of diversity. Goldman Sachs conducts background checks on individuals offered employment with the firm and employment with Goldman Sachs is conditional upon individuals successfully completing those checks.  As part of the background check process, Goldman Sachs may need to obtain a record of disclosable criminal convictions from a government agency such as the Criminal Records Bureau. The firm has adopted policies on the recruitment of ex-offenders and on the retention, storage and disposal of criminal record information which are available on request.