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**Quantitative Trader | Virtu Financial** - Develop, operate, and enhance high-performance algorithmic trading strategies worldwide. Key responsibilities include mastering trade flow processes, collaborating with software engineers, and driving market liquidity evolution. Required skills: strong academic background in hard sciences, proven quantitative problem-solving, programming experience (Python, SQL, Java or C++), precise communication, and high motivation. Prior trading or game strategy experience helpful but not required. Join a diverse, inclusive team in the dynamic financial technology sector. Salary range: $150,000 - $200,000.
- Compensation
- $150,000 – $200,000 USD
- City
- Not specified
- Country
- Not specified
Currency: $ (USD)
Full Job Description
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. 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
THE ROLE
Our Quantitative Traders are responsible for the design, operation, and improvement of highperformance algorithmic trading strategies deployed on electronic trading venues around the world. During an intensive period of mentorship and training in trade floor operations, Quantitative Traders learn the intricacies of each step of the trade flow process, eventually integrating into strategy deployment and operation.
This team also has the opportunity to work closely with software engineers to enhance and further develop the firms trading strategies. Quantitative Traders not only become experts in trading technology and its interaction with the market, but they also play a crucial role in the evolution of market micro structure and the driving forces behind liquidity. This is a great opportunity for the right candidate to kick start a career in the financial technology space.
THE CANDIDATE
- Excellent academic background. All majors welcome but hard sciences preferred (computer science, math, physics, statistics, and related fields).
- Outstanding quantitative problemsolving skills and mathematical aptitude.
- Programming experience is required (Python, SQL, Java or C++ are a plus).
- The ability to communicate information precisely and with agility.
- 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.
- Prior experience with trading, strategy games or poker, is helpful but not required.
- No finance background is necessary.
THE PROCESS
After applicants pass an initial resume screening, an online programming test will be sent via email. This test is from a service called Hackerrank so please be on the lookout. After passing the programming test, we will contact you to arrange a phone screen. We looking forward to meeting you!
