Internship - Software Engineer

Virtu Financial•Austin, NY

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Virtu's internship program offers students an extraordinary opportunity to learn about the firm and the world’s financial markets. We have built a thoughtful and challenging curriculum that introduces students to all aspects of Virtu's business through a company-curated global training week, real world development projects to complete, and engaging social events to get to know our team and culture. Our development team is a highly talented group of versatile software engineers. These engineers are responsible for the design, development and optimization of our proprietary, low-latency trading systems as well as our propriety trading algorithms. This team also creates powerful trading tools, which facilitate all trading stages of our high-performance system which is deployed in financial marketplaces around the world. As an intern, you will complete a variety of challenging development projects. You'll work alongside our senior team to improve scalability, performance and efficiency of our 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 to 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++
Outstanding quantitative problem-solving skills and mathematical aptitude
Being 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.

Nice To Haves

Experience with JavaScript a plus
Some lower level programming experience a plus but not required

Responsibilities

Complete a variety of challenging development projects.
Work alongside senior team members to improve scalability, performance, and efficiency of 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.