Electronic Trading 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 support live automated trading and risk systems during Asia hours, identify and resolve production issues, and escalate issues when needed. You will develop strategy features, deploy reviewed code changes, run retail-routing experiments, and use overnight observations to improve risk systems, order flow, and market-structure resilience.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience at a financial institution
- Strong experience with Python
- Experience working with large datasets in SQL
- Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field preferred
- Knowledge of US equity market structure is a plus
- Experience with Java or C++ is a plus
- Statistical analysis experience is a plus
- Ability to remain calm under pressure in fast-moving, time-sensitive environments
- Strong attention to detail and a track record of accurate, high-quality work
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
- Flexibility in time commitment
Responsibilities
- Monitor automated trading and risk infrastructure, resolve issues in real time, and escalate issues when needed
- Develop strategy features and deploy code changes through the standard review process
- Design, run, and report on retail routing experiments
- Shape team priorities based on overnight observations and support the shift to 23/5 trading
- Partner with traders and developers across regions to strengthen system resilience
- Develop a hands-on understanding of risk systems, order flow, and market structure
Hiring Process
Application screening → online HackerRank programming test sent by email.