Virtu is looking for interns to help improve the scalability, performance, and efficiency of their cutting-edge trading systems, and to learn how to design and architect a trading system for scale and support massive amounts of data.
Requirements
- Strong programming skills in Python and either Java or C++
- Experience with Javascript a plus
- Some lower level programming experience a plus but not required
- Outstanding quantitative problem‐solving skills and mathematical aptitude
- Being comfortable with a wide variety of projects (frontend/backend, different programming languages)
Responsibilities
- complete a variety of challenging development projects
- work alongside our senior team to improve scalability, performance and efficiency of our cutting edge trading systems
- learn first hand how to design and architect a trading system for scale
- support the massive amounts of data that flow through Virtu's trading systems daily
- design, development and optimization of our proprietary, low-latency trading systems
- design, development and optimization of our proprietary trading algorithms
- create powerful trading tools, which facilitate all trading stages of our high-performance system
Other
- Rising juniors, or students expected to be ready for full time employment between December 2026 - June 2027.
- Excellent academic background in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related field
- A physicalizer; a person who identifies issues and creates solutions without rigid direction or fanfare
- Highly motivated and tenacious individual, with a proven ability to take initiative and work independently and within a team
- Team player: authentic, genuine person who is capable of working collective goals.
