- Location: Austin, New York
- Dates: 10 week program, starting June 8th, 2026 - August 14th, 2026 (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.
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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 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.
