Senior FICC Automation & Electronic Trading Systems Engineer
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Who are we looking for
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior FICC Automation & Electronic Trading Systems Engineer to join our dynamic team. This pivotal role involves designing developing and optimizing a strategic high-performance platform for real-time pricing quoting and lifecycle automation across various FICC derivatives products while also ensuring robust low-latency and scalable electronic trading solutions. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in building large-scale distributed systems expertise in electronic trading concepts hands-on experience with FIX protocols and a keen interest in leveraging AI tooling to enhance development workflows.
Responsibilities:
- Design develop and optimize a strategic high-performance platform for real-time pricing quoting and lifecycle automation in various FICC derivatives products driving real-time decision making and facilitating trade-booking.
- Develop and maintain high-performance low-latency electronic trading systems and infrastructure ensuring robust and scalable solutions.
- Work extensively with Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol for order routing market data and post-trade communication with exchanges brokers and other counterparties.
- Explore evaluate and incorporate AI tooling and machine learning techniques into development workflows to improve efficiency automation and system capabilities.
- Collaborate closely with quantitative researchers traders and sales to translate complex trading strategies and business requirements into robust production-ready code.
- Perform system analysis performance tuning and troubleshooting to ensure optimal system reliability accuracy and efficiency.
- Develop and maintain tools for monitoring alerting and reporting on trading system performance and market activity.
- Participate in code reviews architectural discussions and contribute to the overall technical direction of the trading platform.
- Proactively engage with stakeholders throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and contribute to automated testing DevOps and Continuous Deployment practices.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and internal risk management policies.
Qualifications:
- Bachelors or Masters degree in computer science Electrical Engineering Quantitative Finance or a related technical discipline.
- 5 years of professional experience in software development with a significant focus on electronic trading systems large-scale distributed platforms and automation solutions.
- Proven expertise in electronic trading concepts including market microstructure order types (e.g. limit market iceberg) execution algorithms (e.g. VWAP TWAP POV) and low-latency system design.
- In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with FIX protocol versions (e.g. FIX 4.2 4.4 5.0 SP2) including message parsing session management and custom tag implementation.
- Strong programming skills in Java (commercial experience required) with additional proficiency in C or Python for performance-critical applications.
- Experience with real-time data processing distributed systems and multi-threaded programming.
- Solid understanding of FICC derivatives products financial markets and trading workflows particularly in pricing quoting and lifecycle automation.
- Familiarity with automated testing DevOps and Continuous Deployment practices.
- Demonstrated interest in using and incorporating AI tooling and machine learning into development workflows.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in NoSQL data stores e.g. Cassandra MongoDB or Elastic.
- Experience in modern message-oriented middleware e.g. Kafka or RabbitMQ.
- Experience in debugging complex distributed systems.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS Azure GCP) for trading infrastructure.
- Knowledge of network protocols and low-latency networking techniques.
- Familiarity with kdb/Q or other time-series databases.
- Experience working directly with trading and sales users and converting their requirements into actionable solutions.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Continuous Integration
- APIs
- Jenkins
- Junit
- Distributed Control Systems
- Testng
- GAMP
- Test Automation
- CI/CD
- Cucumber
- Programmable Logic Controllers
- Selenium
About Company
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global investment banking, securities, and asset and wealth management firm that provides a wide range of financial services.
