Quantitative Trader
Virtu FinancialBase Salary
$150k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, operate, and improve high-performance algorithmic trading strategies.
- Learn the intricacies of trade flow processes during an intensive mentorship.
- 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 (Python, SQL, Java, or C++ are 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.
- Prior experience with trading, strategy games, or poker is helpful but not required.
- No finance background is necessary.
About Virtu Financial
Virtu is a leading financial firm that leverages cutting edge technology to deliver liquidity to the global markets and innovative, transparent trading solutions to our clients. We combine our market structure expertise and execution technology to provide deep liquidity and competitive bids and offers in over 25,000 securities, at over 235 venues in 50+ countries and unrivaled execution technology to our clients, while creating more efficient and stable markets worldwide. We strongly believe that transparency enables market participants to make better, more informed decisions while making markets more efficient. We strictly adhere to our core set of client values with each and every trade: Transparency, Reliability & Virtue.