Our development team is a highly talented group of versatile software engineers. These engineers are responsible for the design, development and optimization of our proprietary, low-latency trading systems as well as our propriety trading algorithms. This team also creates powerful trading tools, which facilitate all trading stages of our high-performance system which is deployed in financial marketplaces around the world.

As an intern on the UI team, you will complete a variety of challenging development projects. You'll work alongside our senior full-stack team to improve scalability, performance and efficiency of our cutting edge trading interfaces and real-time data analytics, with a focus on front-end development and user experience. This is a rare opportunity for students to learn first hand how to design and architect a trading GUI 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 2026 - June 2027
• Excellent academic background in STEM or related field
• Strong programming skills in web client languages (JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS)
• Familiarity with web client frameworks (React, Angular, Node), remote API design and architecture (REST, WebSockets)  
• Experience with Python, Java or C++ a plus
• 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.