Virtu is an industry-leading financial technology firm that operates both proprietary trading and client-facing businesses in the global financial marketplace. Our cutting edge, proprietary technology is core to everything we do. We trade in over 35 countries, across 235 financial exchanges and over 25% of retail order flow in the US is serviced by Virtu.
Our team is a dedicated group of traders, quants and developers that are inspired by the unique and exciting challenges we solve every day. Our culture combines the creativity of a fast paced start up with the stability of a disciplined financial services firm. We are a flat organisation and encourage our people to innovate and lean on their teammates for support and collaboration. We have fun, work hard and strive to be virtuous in all we do.
Developer InternshipVirtu's internship programme offers students an extraordinary opportunity to learn about the firm and the world’s financial markets. We have built a thoughtful and challenging curriculum with projects that introduce students to the many complex and ever-changing problems to solve. Students can expect a company-curated global training week for our interns, real trading and quantitative problems to solve throughout the programme, and engaging social events to get to know our team and culture.
- Location: Dublin, Ireland (onsite)
- Dates: 10 week programme, starting 21 June 2027 - 27 August 2027
- Training: Ongoing training throughout the summer
- Projects: Real problems to solve throughout the programme. Interns will work from a list of projects and have several senior mentors throughout the programme.
- Perks: Daily catered lunches, fully stocked kitchen, on-site gym & workout classes, games room, social events and laundry service.
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.
RequirementsVirtu is looking for top performers. Whether you’re a coding whiz or a master of Shakespeare, we would like to meet you!
- Excellent academic background in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related field
- A physicalizer; a person who identifies issues and creates solutions without rigid direction or fanfare
- Outstanding quantitative problem‐solving skills and mathematical aptitude
- 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.
- Graduating year of 2028
THE PROCESS
After applicants pass an initial resume screening, an online programming test will be emailed to you via Hackerrank. Upon review, we will reach out to arrange next steps. We are looking forward to meeting you!
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
- Excellent academic background in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related field
- A physicalizer; identifies issues and creates solutions without rigid direction
- Outstanding quantitative problem-solving skills and mathematical aptitude
- Highly motivated and tenacious; ability to take initiative and work independently and in a team
- Team player; authentic and capable of working toward collective goals
- Graduating year of 2028
Virtu Financial Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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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.
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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.
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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.
Virtu Financial Insights
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 19,000 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.
