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- Location: Austin New York
- Dates: 10 week program starting June 7th 2027 - August 13th 2027 (with flexibility if needed)
- Training: Ongoing training throughout the summer and a training week held in New York or Austin
- Projects: Real problems to solve throughout the program. Interns will work from a list of projects and have several senior mentors throughout the summer program.
- Perks (varies by location): Onsite Gym & workout classes Onsite Barista weekly happy hours/social events Breakfast & Lunch Transportation
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++
- Experience with JavaScript a plus
- Some lower level programming experience a plus but not required
- 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.
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.
Skills Required
- Rising junior or student available for full-time employment between December 2026 and June 2027
- Excellent academic background in Computer Science Electrical Engineering or related field
- Strong programming skills in Python and either Java or C++
- Experience with JavaScript
- Some lower-level programming experience
- Outstanding quantitative problem-solving skills and mathematical aptitude
- Comfortable working on a wide variety of projects (frontend/backend multiple languages)
- Self-starter who identifies issues and creates solutions without rigid direction
- Highly motivated tenacious able to take initiative and work independently and on a team
- Team player authentic and capable of working toward collective goals
Virtu Financial Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Virtu Financial and has not been reviewed or approved by Virtu Financial.
- Healthcare Strength—Feedback suggests core coverage is comprehensive including medical dental vision HSA/FSA life and disability. Official materials and third‑party overviews consistently describe strong health-related protections.
- Leave & Time Off Breadth—Generous PTO alongside paid holidays sick and bereavement leave and parental/family leave are highlighted across multiple overviews. These time‑off elements form a notable part of the package.
- Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits—Perks such as free meals/snacks commuter benefits gym access and occasional onsite services (e.g. massages haircuts) enhance the day‑to‑day experience. Availability of these amenities is emphasized particularly in certain offices.
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What We Do
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 19000 securities at over 235 venues in 36 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.
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