Job Description

Synthetic Products Group | Engineering – Vice President - India

Job description

The Synthetics business at Goldman Sachs, a key growth area for the firm, is undergoing a transformational change driven by a desire to handle higher volumes and improve our client service. It is a complex and nuanced global business, operating with low latency at scale, requiring significant technological investment to make our platform the best in class. The Synthetics Products Engineering team is at the forefront of this effort, leading the effort to digitize and automate the systems that manage the booking and lifecycle of synthetics and equity derivative products within the front office trading risk system. To achieve this we have a number of greenfield projects to re-architect our technology stack to meet these requirements and are looking for highly technical developers to help us achieve this goal.

The candidate will be part of a global team responsible for providing cutting-edge technological solutions to support our business and our clients. Developers are encouraged to be involved in every stage of development from requirements gathering through to design discussions, building, testing and deployment. Effective problem-solving through communication and a highly-developed analytical and technical skillset will be essential to your success. A willing and enthusiastic attitude toward mastering the necessary technical skills, as well as toward forming a detailed understanding of the businesses you will work with, are key requirements of the role. This role offers the opportunity to contribute directly to the success and growth of our client franchise. It offers significant opportunities for long term career growth, building leadership skills, gaining exposure to a wide range of products and business flows and most importantly developing technical solutions in bleeding edge technologies.

Your Impact

The Synthetics Product Group Engineering team focuses on developing a global platform that supports the SPG business as well as developing tailored business technology solutions driven by desk and client requirements. As a key full-stack developer of the team, you will be at the forefront of various revenue-driven technology builds and working in a fast-paced changing environment. The team takes a data-driven approach to decision making and you should be willing to participate in the full product lifecycle from requirements gathering, design, implementation, testing, support, and monitoring system performance.

At Goldman Sachs, our culture is one of teamwork, innovation and meritocracy. We often say our people are our greatest asset and we take pride in supporting each colleague both professionally and personally. From collaborative work spaces and mindfulness classes to working from home and flexible work options, we offer our people the support they need to reach their goals in and outside the office.

You may be working on a new business initiative to design the trade flow for the firm's synthetic product offerings. You may be building a cutting-edge technology stack that parallelizes the processing of contract lifecycle events with utilities to capture and visualize system performance. You will work in a team of highly capable, experienced developers which encourages open discussion and is focused on the delivery of robust, reliable software.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain a high-performance, high-availability, high-capacity, yet nimble and adaptive platform for trade booking and workflow systems as well as post-trade processing
• Design and build solutions to enhance and scale up the infrastructure to support business growth and new products, in a holistic front-to-back approach
• Collect data and metrics from existing systems to guide decision making and business intelligence, developing or enhancing tools as necessary to collect them
• Communicate with traders, sales, strategists, operations and compliance officers to gather new requirements, design workflow, deliver features and provide user support
• Bachelor or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Quantitative Research or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of professional experience in full-stack software development
• A solid understanding of data structures and algorithms as well as systems design
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work in a team as well as independently
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Experience with any coding language(Java/c/cpp/python) is expected till the time they can code good optimized solutions in the coding round.
• Experience working with AI coding agents is certainly an important skill that we would be eyeing for(Git hub copilot/Claud code/Devin/cursor).
• Existing experience with any cloud solutions(AWS/GCP/Oracle)
• Working experience in the financial industry and front-office facing environment
• Financial knowledge and good understanding of Equities Synthetic or Derivative products
• Prior experience with Python and Linux shell-scripting programming languages
• Experience building state management systems, complex event processing and transaction sequencing architectures
• Experience with dependency injection frameworks such as Spring
• Prior experience with event sourcing (sequenced core stream) based architecture
• Prior experience in concurrent programming and developing multi-threaded systems
• Prior experience in Web or UI development such as Angular/React

Basic Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

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