Flow Traders

Flow Traders publishes two distinct graduate hiring loops, one for trading and one for development, both opening with a CV and cover letter:

• Graduate Trader / Trading Intern: an online numerical test on mental math and sequences, a recruiter interview, an interview with a Trader covering business knowledge and brainteasers, and a final case study led by two senior Traders.
• Graduate Software Development / Trading Operations Engineering: a HackerRank test in C++ or Java, a recruiter interview, a Codepair session with a senior Developer, and a final interview with a Team Lead.

Both loops are short on hops compared with bank graduate schemes, but the live numerical and Codepair stages are unforgiving — weak performance gates the rest of the loop, so candidates running this against other applications cannot stagger preparation across weeks.

Flow Traders publishes four named graduate programs, each with a fixed structure:

• Graduate Trading Program: three-month training across financial products, pricing, proprietary trading systems, simulations, and quantitative classes
• Graduate Quantitative Research: two-month program covering pricing maths, trading classes, and developing automated strategies
• Graduate Trading Operations Engineering Program: three months — two months of training plus a one-month graduation project — introducing DevOps and trading-systems performance
• Graduate Software Development Program: one-year rotation across the C++ or Java teams behind the firm's proprietary trading platform

Internship intake is narrower: Trading interns only, in Amsterdam and New York. Each program runs as a distinct assessed track rather than a converging cohort, so a candidate targeting more than one route applies and interviews twice.

Flow Traders states in its graduates FAQ that it is open to providing visa sponsorship to international candidates and their partner or children for graduate and full-time roles, and that it has been hiring international talent for many years. It explicitly does not sponsor visas for interns. For a non-EU candidate applying to the Amsterdam graduate intake, sponsorship is in scope at offer stage — but the Trading internship route is closed as a sponsored stepping-stone, so a candidate relying on conversion via internship needs to plan around that gate.

The published cycle differs by program (graduates FAQ):

• Graduate Trader: open year-round, reviewed on a rolling basis, with four intakes per year
• Graduate Software Development: applications open roughly a year before the start date; no fixed deadline, the position closes when openings are filled
• Trading Intern: rolling, Amsterdam and New York only

The four-intake trader cadence is unusual; rather than a single autumn cluster, candidates can target an intake matched to their graduation date, which means the deadline pressure runs against personal timing rather than a fixed market window — earlier applications inside each intake are read first.

Flow Traders is the rare prop trading firm that is publicly listed: it IPO'd on Euronext Amsterdam in July 2015 at €32 per share, which means headcount, compensation envelope, and financial performance are filed and disclosed quarterly — material that is opaque at private peers like Jane Street, Optiver, IMC, DRW, and SIG. The firm's franchise is ETF market-making, run from an Amsterdam headquarters with offices in New York, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Milan, Paris, Cluj, Chicago, and Shanghai. For a candidate choosing between offers, the listing is the practical lever: published filings let a graduate compare compensation bands, employee count growth, and trading P&L over time rather than relying on second-hand industry comparables.

Yes. Flow Traders currently has 3 open internship and graduate roles on Jorb AI: summer internships, insight programs, graduate schemes, and early-career positions across Hong Kong and the United States. Postings update continuously as new roles are added and filled.

Flow Traders has open internship and graduate roles in Hong Kong and the United States. Specific offices and program structure (summer vs year-round, internship vs graduate scheme) vary by region; check individual postings for details.

Applications to Flow Traders go through the official careers site. Each role on this page links directly to the specific application. Flow Traders does not use third-party submission services.