Quantitative Trader
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
Design, operate, and improve high-performance algorithmic trading strategies deployed on electronic trading venues worldwide. Receive mentorship and training in trade floor operations, work with software engineers to enhance strategies, and contribute to strategy deployment and operation.
Requirements
- Excellent academic background
- Hard sciences preferred, including computer science, mathematics, physics, or statistics
- Outstanding quantitative problem-solving skills
- Strong mathematical aptitude
- Programming experience
- Ability to communicate information precisely and with agility
- Ability to identify issues and create solutions independently
- Ability to take initiative and work independently and within a team
Responsibilities
- Design algorithmic trading strategies
- Operate algorithmic trading strategies
- Improve algorithmic trading strategies
- Learn trade floor operations
- Work with software engineers to enhance trading strategies
- Deploy and operate trading strategies
Hiring Process
After passing an application screening, candidates will be sent an online programming test via email from HackerRank as a first step of the process.