Software Engineer Intern
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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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
As an intern, you will complete a variety of challenging development projects. You will work alongside the senior team to improve the scalability, performance and efficiency of cutting-edge, low-latency trading systems. You will learn how to design and architect trading systems for scale and support massive amounts of data. You will work on real problems with senior mentors and participate in global training and social events.
Requirements
- Rising juniors or students expected to be ready for full-time employment between December 2027 and June 2028
- Excellent academic background in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
- Strong programming skills in Python and either Java or C++
- Experience with JavaScript is a plus
- Some lower-level programming experience is a plus but not required
- Outstanding quantitative problem-solving skills and mathematical aptitude
- Comfort working across frontend and backend projects and different programming languages
- Ability to identify issues and create solutions independently
- Ability to work independently and within a team
- Team-oriented and capable of working toward collective goals
Responsibilities
- Complete a variety of challenging development projects
- Improve the scalability, performance and efficiency of low-latency trading systems
- Design and architect trading systems for scale
- Support massive amounts of data flowing through trading systems
- Work on real-world problems with senior mentors
Benefits
- Onsite Gym & workout classes
- Onsite Barista
- Weekly happy hours/social events
- Breakfast & Lunch
- Transportation
Hiring Process
After initial resume screening, applicants receive an online programming test via HackerRank. After review, Virtu reaches out to arrange next steps.