Software Engineer (Java)
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, build, and maintain low-latency trading systems and infrastructure. You will create trading tools, improve scalability and performance, and design technical solutions for future business needs. You will handle projects spanning frontend-facing work and backend infrastructure across multiple programming languages.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- Experience building and designing distributed and scalable software
- Experience with Java, Go, or C++
- Experience in Python preferred
- Experience with distributed or highly concurrent systems preferred
- Experience with low-latency systems or high-transaction environments preferred
- Experience with relational databases preferred
- 2 to 5+ years of experience building, shipping, and maintaining highly optimized, scalable code
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain proprietary low-latency trading systems and infrastructure
- Produce trading tools that leverage the high-performance system
- Improve the scalability and performance of trading infrastructure
- Understand future business needs
- Design technical solutions to meet business demands
- Handle frontend-facing and backend infrastructure projects across different programming languages
Benefits
- 26 days annual leave
- Additional leave for community service, marriage or civil partnerships, and moving house
- Paid maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Private health, dental, and optical cover
- Annual health assessments
- Private GP access
- Dedicated wellness programme
- Life assurance
- Income protection
- Competitive pension scheme
- Gym subsidy or fitness reimbursement
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Commuter benefit plan
- Personal travel insurance
- Complimentary catered lunches every day
