Virtu Financial

Virtu Financial

Weekend Trader

Austin, TX

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 70 days ago
PythonJavaC++SQLCommunicationProblem Solving

About the role

  • Supervising and optimizing strategy performance
  • Intraday market and credit risk management
  • Basic back office and site reliability monitoring

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • Virtu's trading desks operate globally across a wide range of asset classes, leveraging our advanced trading technology to develop and enhance our strategies and trading operations across both proprietary and client-facing businesses.
  • Our Weekend Traders are risk managers that help to keep our trading systems and strategies running smoothly, providing critical operational support and maintaining our high-performance algorithmic trading strategies.
  • This candidate will also have the opportunity to work closely with software engineers to enhance and further develop the firm's trading strategies.

Requirements

  • Programming experience is required (Python, SQL, Java or C++).
  • The ability to communicate information precisely and with agility.

Nice to have

  • Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field preferred.
  • Strong graduates will also be considered.
  • Prior trading experience is a plus, but not required.
  • Ideal candidate would have a strong interest to learn and grow within a global trading environment.

Skills

  • Outstanding quantitative problem-solving skills and mathematical aptitude.

This listing is sourced directly from Virtu Financial's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.