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Posted July 29, 2026

2027 Internship - Frontend & User Experience

Virtu Financial

Category:Software Engineering

Location:New YorkAustin

Seniority
Student
Employment type
Intern
Work arrangement
On-site
Salary
$5k–$6k

Requirements

  • Rising juniors, or students expected to be ready for full time employment between December 2027 - June 2028
  • Excellent academic background in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related field
  • Strong programming skills in JavaScript, React, and Node
  • Experience with TypeScript, Java, C++, Python is a plus
  • 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

About the role

Virtu's Frontend Developer Internship is a 10-week summer program offering students an extraordinary opportunity to learn about the firm and the world's financial markets. As an intern on the User Interface development team, you will complete challenging development projects working alongside senior engineers to improve scalability, performance, and efficiency of cutting-edge trading systems.

  • Work on real-time trading, visualization, analysis, and reporting tools
  • Design and architect trading tools for scale and performance
  • Collaborate with traders and developers to gather requirements and implement solutions
  • Support systems handling massive amounts of data flowing through Virtu's trading infrastructure
  • Participate in a company-curated global training week and ongoing development throughout the summer

What you'll get

  • $5k–$6k base salary
  • Onsite Barista
  • Weekly happy hours
  • Social events
  • Daily lunch
  • Stocked pantry
  • Company-curated global training week
  • Real world development projects
  • Senior mentors throughout the program