About the role

What will you do at Virtu Financial?

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. As a market maker, Virtu provides deep liquidity that

helps to create more efficient markets around the world. Our market structure

expertise, broad diversification, and execution technology enables us to provide

competitive bids and offers in over 19,000 securities, at over 235 venues, in 36

countries worldwide

ATLAS SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Our Atlas Development team is a highly talented group of versatile software

engineers that lead the development of Virtu's client trading infrastructure

that serves hundreds of clients. As a Software Engineer, your primary

responsibility will be to design, develop, and maintain our front-to-back

trading infrastructure. This infrastructure covers all aspects of the trading

life-cycle including order management, exchange connectivity, smart order

routing, internalization, and clearing.

Responsibilities

include: designing and
building software within existing trading systems, and improving scalability,
performance, and efficiency of the infrastructure.
We look for self-directed, passionate developers with a solid technical
foundation and a drive to dive into the details of advanced technologies and
programming languages. We value strong communication skills; the ability to
discuss complex, technical problems are critical to the success of our
collaborative culture.
We offer a dynamic, fast paced, meritocratic environment with a flat hierarchy.
No finance background is necessary or expected. You'll learn all the intricacies
of how trading and technology intersect within the global financial marketplace.
Our teams are passionate about continually improving and raising the bar;
learning and teaching are keys to Virtu’s culture.
RESPONSIBILITIES
* Design, build, and maintain our proprietary, low-latency trading systems, and
infrastructures.
* Produce powerful trading tools which leverage all aspects of our
high-performance system
* Improve the scalability, performance, of our trading infrastructure.
* Understand the future needs of the business and design technical solutions to
meet these demands
* Ability to handle a wide variety of projects, from frontend facing projects
to backend infrastructure, each in different programming languages
THE CANDIDATE
* B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field or
experience
* 3+ years of experience building and designing distributed and scalable
software in Java/C++
* Driven, self-starting personality. Our employees are expected to demonstrate
peer leadership and initiative early on
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills
DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED
* Experience in Python
* Experience in distributed and/or highly concurrent systems
* Experience in low-latency systems and/or high transaction environments
* Experience working in collaborative environments
* Experience with relational databases
Salary Range: $175,000 - $200,000 (salary range is exclusive of bonuses,
benefits or other categories of compensation)
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.

Which skills does this role require?

JavaPythonDesignDevelopmentMaintenanceTrading SystemsOrder ManagementExchange ConnectivitySmart Order RoutingInternalizationClearingScalabilityPerformanceEfficiencyDistributed SoftwareConcurrent SystemsSoftware EngineerClient Trading InfrastructureFinancial FirmMarket MakerLiquidityTrading SolutionsAtlas DevelopmentFront-to-back TradingLow-latencyHigh-performanceDistributed SystemsFixed Income Credit & RatesRelational Databases

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