Software Engineer - Client Trading Infrastructure (Java)
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.
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About the Role
Design, build, and maintain low-latency trading systems and infrastructure covering order management, exchange connectivity, smart order routing, internalization, and clearing. Improve scalability, performance, and efficiency while developing trading tools and technical solutions across frontend and backend projects.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- 3+ years of experience building and designing distributed and scalable software in Java or C++
- Self-directed personality with initiative and peer leadership
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience with Python, distributed or highly concurrent systems, low-latency systems, high-transaction environments, collaborative environments, or relational databases is desired but not required
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain proprietary low-latency trading systems and infrastructure
- Build high-performance trading tools
- Improve the scalability, performance, and efficiency of trading infrastructure
- Understand future business needs and design technical solutions
- Handle frontend-facing and backend infrastructure projects