About the position
As a leading financial technology firm, we leverage cutting-edge technology to deliver liquidity to global markets as well as innovative, transparent trading solutions and industry standard-setting analytics tools 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. Virtu offers a dynamic, meritocratic environment with a flat hierarchy. No finance background is necessary or expected. This is a great opportunity for the right candidate to kick start a career in the financial technology space.
Responsibilities
- Build, design and support low-latency middleware under the guidance of the architecture team.
- Enhance the next-generation messaging router for Linux support.
- Upgrade/Migrate Proprietary Virtu EMS system and its feature from legacy to new technology stack in Java.
- Maintain and work on existing services that interface with other teams such as reference or trading data plant in C++.
- Convert a proprietary EMS in-memory real-time database to run on Linux.
- Understand different trading strategies/tactics and contribute by recommending enhancements to them.
- Work in a fast moving and rapidly changing environment using agile methodology.
- Solve highly technical and complex problems on multiple projects.
- Analyze feature specifications and be actively involved with product management in refining these specs.
- Conduct system modeling, prototyping and analysis while designing software applications.
- Participate in recommending new technologies and next generation features.
Requirements
- A bachelor’s degree or master’s degree in Computer Science, MIS or related field with 4+ years of experience.
- Knowledge of C# on the server side.
- Extensive and active development experience in object oriented programming using Java, and to a lesser degree, C++.
- Experience working on both Linux and Windows platform.
- Knowledge with Python and Shell scripting, and object oriented programming.
- Excellent communication skills both verbal and written with ability to work both independently and in a team environment.
- Experience with threading, SVN/CVS/GIT, SQL, XML, and service oriented architectures.
- Detail oriented with ability to handle concurrent projects while adapting quickly to rapidly changing priorities.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with Market Data is not required, but would be a plus.
Benefits
- Salary Range: $150,000 - $200,000 (salary range is exclusive of bonuses, benefits or other categories of compensation).
