Virtu is a leading financial firm that leverages cutting edge technology to offer liquidity to the global markets and innovative, transparent trading solutions to our clients. As a market maker, Virtu provides deep liquidity that helps to create more efficient markets around the world. Our market structure expertise, broad diversification, and execution technology enables us to provide competitive bids and offers in over 19,000 securities, at over 235 venues, in 36 countries worldwide.
The Role:
Our Software Development team creates powerful trading tools, which facilitate the operation of a high-performance system, deployed in financial marketplaces around the world. The Core Development team focuses on the design of our trading system’s core order management protocol, managing internal message processing as well as connectivity to external trading destinations, ensuring all trades flow in and our of our system smoothly and at the optimal speed.
Key Skills:
- Mastery of modern C++ programming.
- Experience with Java programming
- Between 1 - 3 years of work experience preferred (talented graduates will be considered)
- Extensive experience developing in a Linux environment.
- Experience working with complex networking infrastructure (i.e. how data transverses a network, TCP, UDP, etc.)
- Strong understanding of computer performance analysis
- Experience programming in high transaction environments and low-latency systems
- Experience in distributed and/or highly concurrent systems is a plus.
- Experience in low-latency systems and/or high transaction environments is a plus.
- Interest in trading and financial markets.
- Proficiency in spoken and written Mandarin is required to support the China market and communicate with Mandarin stakeholders
- Experience working with Chinese exchanges
- Enjoy working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Excellent communication skills are required.
- Candidates outside banking and finance preferred.
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.
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