Quantitative Trader
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 design, operate, and improve high-performance algorithmic trading strategies deployed on electronic trading venues worldwide. You will 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
