Quantitative Trader
Virtu Financial7 months ago
Dublin, IrelandEntry Level
Responsibilities
- Design, operate, and improve high-performance algorithmic trading strategies.
- Learn the intricacies of trade flow processes during mentorship and training.
- Integrate into strategy deployment and operation.
- Collaborate with software engineers to enhance trading strategies.
- Become an expert in trading technology and market microstructure.
Requirements
- Excellent academic background, preferably in hard sciences.
- Outstanding quantitative problem-solving skills and mathematical aptitude.
- Programming experience is required, with Python, SQL, Java, or C++ as a plus.
- Ability to communicate information precisely and with agility.
- Highly motivated and tenacious individual with initiative.
- Team player capable of working towards collective goals.
- No finance background is necessary.
About Virtu Financial
Virtu Financial is a publicly traded market maker and electronic trading firm that provides liquidity across equities, ETFs, and other asset classes, and offers execution services and analytics to institutional clients. Its revenues come from market making and commissions/fees on trading and data solutions. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in New York, Virtu expanded its client execution and analytics capabilities with the acquisition of ITG in 2019 (traded on NASDAQ: VIRT).