Quantitative Trader Fixed Income
Virtu Financial is a global multi-asset market maker and liquidity provider, including digital assets.
About Virtu Financial
Virtu Financial, Inc. (NYSE: VIRT) is a leading principal market maker and liquidity provider across asset classes, with a real and current crypto business (zerohash market-making partner 2026, spot digital-asset liquidity via Talos, AP/market maker for US crypto ETFs).
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will support the Fixed Income Trading desk through risk management, strategy configuration and implementation, and primary market trading. You will design, operate, and improve algorithmic trading strategies, work with operations and trading partners to mitigate risk, and help develop trading strategies with software engineers.
Requirements
- 2-5 years of experience in a trading support role or comparable role at a trading firm or financial institution
- Excellent academic background
- Quantitative academic background preferred
- Bond experience
- Knowledge or experience pricing, settling, or clearing Fixed Income is beneficial
- ETF knowledge is a plus
- Strong communication ability
- Technical proficiency in SQL and Python or other programming languages
- 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 strategies
- Conduct primary market trading
- Design algorithmic trading strategies
- Operate algorithmic trading strategies
- Improve algorithmic trading strategies
- Work with operations, compliance, brokers, and custodians to mitigate risk
- Build and manage relationships with issuers and trading partners
- Work with software engineers to enhance trading strategies