Software Engineer - Web Application, Front-end (Javascript/React)
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
Build scalable web-based user interfaces and trading tools for a financial market maker, primarily focused on frontend development with potential backend work.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience
- Expertise with JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS
- Familiarity with React, Angular, Node, REST APIs, and WebSockets
- Experience with Git and databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, or KDB
- Object-oriented design skills
- Familiarity with Java
- Python experience
- Interest in trading and financial markets
- UI design and implementation examples or website work
Responsibilities
- Build scalable web-based user interfaces and trading tools
- Implement real-time trading tools
- Implement visualization, analysis, and reporting tools
- Design intuitive user interfaces
- Collaborate with traders and developers to understand requirements
- Work on backend development when needed
Benefits
- Some flexibility to work hybrid
Hiring Process
Initial resume screen, online programming test, then phone screen for candidates who perform well. Applicants must also provide UI design and implementation examples or website work.