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Software Engineer - Desktop Frontend Developer (C#/Winforms)

Virtu Financial
🇺🇸New YorkJuniorFull-time$150k–$200kPosted May 4, 2026

About the Role

Virtu is looking for a Frontend Software Engineer to join the Core Development team, which creates powerful trading tools that facilitate the operation of high-performance systems deployed in financial marketplaces worldwide. This is a highly visible, front-office engineering role where you'll collaborate with traders and researchers to build and maintain live trading user interfaces. You will scale up capacity and performance of C# software components, create new custom features to improve visualization of real-time trading data, handle multiple concurrent projects while adapting to changing priorities, and be an effective communicator and teammate across the organization.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM field
  • Proven results delivering multi-threaded, high performance user interfaces in C# and Winforms (or WPF)
  • Previous experience with desktop based applications and Core .NET frameworks, such as DevExpress, Telerik UI, and/or Syncfusion
  • Knowledge of multi-asset classes (e.g. Options, Equities), market structure and trading systems is a big plus
  • Experience leveraging .NET memory and performance profiling technology
  • Proficient in object oriented programming and advanced programming languages
  • Experience with unit testing
  • Self-starter and stand-out contributor who has a real passion for technical excellence
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills (verbal and written)

What You'll Get

  • $150k–$200k base salary