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About the Role

Virtu's internship program offers students an extraordinary opportunity to learn about the firm and the world’s financial markets. Interns will complete challenging development projects alongside senior team members to improve scalability, performance, and efficiency of cutting-edge trading systems. This is a rare opportunity for students to learn first-hand how to design and architect a trading system for scale and support the massive amounts of data that flow through Virtu's trading systems daily.

Responsibilities

Design, development, and optimization of proprietary, low-latency trading systems.
Creation of powerful trading tools to facilitate all trading stages of high-performance systems.
Improve scalability, performance, and efficiency of cutting-edge trading systems.
Learn to design and architect a trading system for scale.
Support the massive amounts of data that flow through Virtu's trading systems daily.

Requirements

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.
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.
Comfortable with a wide variety of projects (frontend/backend, different programming languages).
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.

Skills

Python
Java
C++
JavaScript
Frontend development
Backend development
Low-latency trading systems
Trading algorithms
Quantitative problem-solving
Mathematical aptitude

Location

Austin
New York

Work Type

Internship
Full-time

Experience Level

Internship

Education Level

Computer Science
Electrical Engineering
Related field

Salary/Compensations

$5,000 - $5,800 weekly

Benefits

Onsite Gym & workout classes
Onsite Barista
Weekly happy hours/social events
Breakfast & Lunch
Transportation

About the Company

Virtu is an industry-leading financial technology firm that operates both proprietary trading and client-facing businesses in the global financial marketplace.
Our cutting edge, proprietary technology is core to everything we do.
We trade in over 35 countries, across 235 financial exchanges and over 25% of retail order flow in the US is serviced by Virtu.
Our team is a dedicated group of traders, quants and developers that are inspired by the unique and exciting challenges we solve every day.
Our culture combines the creativity of a fast-paced start up, with the stability of a disciplined financial services firm.
We have a flat organization and encourage our people to innovate and lean on their teammates for support and collaboration.
We have fun, work hard and strive to be virtuous in all we do.

Equal Opportunity

Virtu Financial is an equal opportunity employer, committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace, welcoming you for who you are and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.