Electronic Trading Engineer
Virtu Financial13 hours ago
Base Salary
$175k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Monitor automated trading and risk infrastructure during Asia hours, identify and resolve real-time issues, and escalate when needed.
- Develop new strategy features and deploy code changes through the team's review process.
- Design, run, and report on retail routing experiments.
- Shape team priorities based on overnight observations and support the transition to 23/5 trading.
- Partner with traders and developers across regions to strengthen system resilience.
- Build hands-on expertise in risk systems, order flow, and market structure.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of experience at a financial institution.
- Strong experience with Python.
- Experience working with large datasets in SQL.
- A bachelor's degree in a quantitative field is preferred.
- Knowledge of US equity market structure, including venues, smart order routing, order types, and trade reporting, is a plus.
- Experience with Java or C++ and statistical analysis is a plus.
- Calmness under pressure, strong attention to detail, accurate high-quality work, problem-solving ability, communication skills, teamwork, and flexibility in time commitment.
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).