2027 Internship – Software Engineer
Virtu Financial is a global financial services firm and market maker providing liquidity, execution services, analytics, and trading technology across multiple asset classes.
About Virtu Financial, Inc.
Virtu Financial, Inc. leverages market-structure expertise and technology to provide liquidity and transparent trading solutions across equities, ETFs, foreign exchange, futures, fixed income, cryptocurrency, and commodities. Its offerings include market making, execution services, liquidity sourcing, multi-asset analytics, data products, compliance tools, and broker-neutral workflow technology.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will complete challenging software development projects and work with senior engineers to improve the scalability, performance, and efficiency of low-latency trading systems. You will design and architect systems for scale and support large volumes of trading data.
Requirements
- Rising juniors, or students expected to be ready for full-time employment between December 2027 and June 2028
- Strong academic background in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
- Strong programming skills in Python and either Java or C++
- Experience with JavaScript is a plus
- Lower-level programming experience is a plus
- Quantitative problem-solving skills
- Mathematical aptitude
- Ability to work across frontend and backend projects
- Ability to take initiative and work independently and within a team
Responsibilities
- Complete software development projects
- Improve the scalability of trading systems
- Improve the performance of trading systems
- Improve the efficiency of trading systems
- Design and architect trading systems for scale
- Support large volumes of data flowing through trading systems
Benefits
- Daily breakfast
- Lunch allowance
- Transport allowance
- Onsite gym
- Workout classes
- Massage sessions
- Social events
Hiring Process
Initial resume screening, followed by an online programming test sent via HackerRank. After review, the company will arrange next steps.