Virtu Financial
Electronic Trading Engineer
$175K–$225K
New York · Full-time · Posted Oct 9, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of experience at a financial institution.
- Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in a quantitative field preferred; no equivalent-experience alternative stated.
About the job
Supports and improves production risk systems that route retail equity orders, monitoring live trading infrastructure and developing strategy features and routing experiments.
What you'll do
- Monitor automated trading and risk infrastructure, resolve issues in real time, and escalate when needed.
- Develop strategy features and deploy code changes through the standard review process.
- Design, run, and report on retail routing experiments; collaborate across regions to strengthen system resilience.
What they ask for
- Strong experience with Python.
- Experience working with large datasets in SQL.
- Calm under pressure in fast-moving, time-sensitive environments.
- Strong attention to detail and a track record of accurate, high-quality work.
Nice to have
- Bachelor’s Degree in a quantitative field preferred.
- Knowledge of US equity market structure, experience with Java or C++, and statistical analysis experience are a plus.
Pay
$175,000 - $225,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, SQL, Java, C++, HackerRank
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