Hardware Platform Engineer

Virtu Financial is a global financial services firm and market maker providing liquidity, execution services, analytics, and trading technology across multiple asset classes.

New York, NY, USA
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.

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Skills

Candidate Availability

Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.

About the Role

You will test and troubleshoot hardware equipment and define and implement deployment plans for hardware platforms. You will develop and maintain applications that control and monitor custom hardware platforms and research hardware providers and their capabilities.

Requirements

  • Academic degree in Computer Science or a related field
  • Extensive Python experience
  • Basic understanding of network protocols
  • Familiarity with modern computer systems and network architecture
  • Strong problem solving skills
  • Strong communication skills
  • Experience with real time exchange market data and order entry systems

Responsibilities

  • Test and troubleshoot hardware equipment
  • Define and implement hardware platform deployment plans
  • Develop and maintain applications to control and monitor custom hardware platforms
  • Research and evaluate hardware providers features and capabilities

Hiring Process

Initial resume screening; HackerRank programming assessment by email; possible phone screen.