Internship - Software Engineer
Virtu FinancialAbout the Role
Virtu's internship program offers students an extraordinary opportunity to learn about the firm and the world's financial markets. We have built a thoughtful and challenging curriculum that introduces students to all aspects of Virtu's business through a company-curated global training week, real world development projects to complete, and engaging social events to get to know our team and culture.
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.
- 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.
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.
Responsibilities
- Complete a variety of challenging development projects
- Work alongside our senior team to improve scalability, performance and efficiency of our cutting edge trading systems
- 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 2027 - June 2028.
- Excellent academic background in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related field
- Strong programming skills in Python and either Java or C++
- 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.
What You'll Get
- $5,000–$5,800/wk base salary
- Ongoing training throughout the summer and a training week held in New York or Austin
- Onsite Gym & workout classes (varies by location)
- Onsite Barista (varies by location)
- weekly happy hours/social events (varies by location)
- Breakfast & Lunch (varies by location)
- Transportation (varies by location)
- sign on bonuses, housing, meals, benefits or any other forms of compensation