Quantitative Trader - Fixed Income
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
Support the Fixed Income Trading desk through risk management, strategy configuration and implementation, primary market trading, and the design, operation, and improvement of algorithmic trading strategies.
Requirements
- 2-5 years of experience in a trading support or comparable role at a trading firm or financial institution
- Excellent academic background
- Bond experience required
- Technical proficiency in SQL and Python or other programming languages
- Strong communication ability
- Ability to identify issues and create solutions independently
- Ability to take initiative and work independently and within a team
Responsibilities
- Manage trading risk
- Configure and implement trading strategies
- Conduct primary market trading
- Design, operate, and improve algorithmic trading strategies
- Work with operations, compliance, brokers, and custodians to mitigate risk
- Build relationships with issuers and trading partners
- Work with software engineers to enhance trading strategies