Top Goldman eTrading engineers leave to participate in the simulation
Where are the best tech jobs at Goldman Sachs? Maybe not New York, maybe not London. Maybe…Stockholm.
Goldman Sachs has a few engineering teams at hubs across Europe. The Warsaw office is one of the largest, but the Stockholm office is one of the most interesting. Goldman acquired Stockholm-based electronic trading firm Pantor back in 2015. Since then, it has used Stockholm to employ some of its best electronic trading technology talent, with some of the former Pantor talent such as CTO Anders Furuhed serving as CEOs.
However, there are signs that some of Goldman’s top technology talent in Stockholm is regrouping in Sequitor, a new firm formed by Pantor’s old CEO and ex-Goldman Sachs MD, Rolf Andersson.
Sequitor is a fintech that develops “an ecosystem of high-fidelity replicas of the largest exchanges” for clients to test trading systems. It has operated under the radar, yet has assembled some very impressive talent, particularly from Goldman.
The latest recruits include Johannes Frey-Skött, a technology ED for Goldman in Stockholm.
Frey-Skött joined Goldman in 2021 as a managing director from investment management firm IPM, where he was director of research and investments. His team at GS “developed and refined the execution analysis and research in the equity space.” He is left to become Sequitor’s CTO.
He and Andersson aren’t the only ex-Goldman talent working at Sequitor; Product Manager Magnus Hedin not only spent over five years at Goldman, but worked together with Frey-Skött at the trading solutions firm Itiviti. Notable carpenters from elsewhere include co-founder Pablo Landherr who was CIO of the Swedish investment bank SEB.
Sequitor wants to grow. It has four open engineering positions including for a data scientist and a test engineer. Several of Goldman’s talents may take the red pill and join former colleagues to work in the simulation.
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