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Software Engineer, Global Banking & Markets, Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading (GSET)

3/30/2026

The role focuses on building and maintaining high-performance order management and exchange connectivity systems for trading platforms, involving gathering requirements and deploying solutions for internal and external clients.

Salary

115000 - 180000 USD

Working Hours

40 hours/week

Company Size

10,001+ employees

Language

English

Visa Sponsorship

About The Company

We aspire to be the world’s most exceptional financial institution, united by our shared values of partnership, client service, integrity, and excellence. Operating at the center of capital markets, we act as one firm, mobilizing our people, capital, and ideas to deliver superior results across our clients’ most complex challenges. For 157 years, Goldman Sachs has delivered world-class execution on a global scale across our leading Global Banking & Markets and Asset & Wealth Management businesses. Apprenticeship is central to our culture, with hands-on coaching and access to leaders who bring decades of experience and expertise. With office locations around the world, we offer a broad range of career opportunities to those who insist on excellence and thrive on performance. Find our Social Media Disclosures here: gs.com/social-media-disclosures

About the Role

Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading (GSET) is looking for motivated Software Engineers to deliver innovative solutions to challenging engineering problems for our business and clients. Building atop our existing trading technology stacks you will develop features supporting our best in class Algorithmic and Direct Market Access trading products. Join our team to participate in the creation and launch of exceptional products providing value to top clients across the industry. We are looking for eager, nimble, and ambitious trading platform developers to join our growing team and drive Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading to achieve and exceed our goals.

Your Impact

As a member of our Platforms team, your focus will be on building and maintaining our order management and exchange connectivity systems. Your responsibilities will include gathering requirements from internal/external clients, designing and developing features across our various trading platforms, and deploying your solutions. Our global team interfaces with clients, sales, trading, compliance, legal, and other strat & engineering teams within the firm on a regular basis and plays a critical role in sustaining Goldman Sachs' Electronic Trading business.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain high-performance yet nimble and adaptive trading platforms for internal and external clients.
Understand US Cash and Options market structure, regulations, exchange service offerings, and implement changes to these on an on-going basis.
Communication with traders, sales, clients and compliance officers about new feature requests, explanation of existing features, etc.

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering with 2 to 5 years of relevant work experience.
Proficiency in either Java or C++.
Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and design pattern.
Experience with Linux operating system.
Strong communication skills and the ability to work in a team.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Event Sourcing (Sequenced core stream) based architecture.
Knowledge about JVM internals and tuning for low-latency.
Experience with building C++/Java systems with strict requirements for low-latency (microseconds count) and deterministic performance.
Experience with developing order management and exchange connectivity systems.

Salary Range
The expected base salary for this New York, New York, United States-based position is $115000-$180000. In addition, you may be eligible for a discretionary bonus if you are an active employee as of fiscal year-end.

At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world.

We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers.

We’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. Learn more: https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html

Goldman Sachs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veterans status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Key Skills

JavaC++Data StructuresAlgorithmsDesign PatternLinuxOrder Management SystemsExchange ConnectivityAlgorithmic TradingDirect Market AccessLow-LatencyEvent Sourcing