Core Developer - China Desk

Overview

Virtu is a leading financial firm that leverages cutting-edge technology to offer liquidity to the global markets and innovative, transparent trading solutions to clients. As a market maker, Virtu provides deep liquidity that helps create more efficient markets worldwide. Our market structure expertise, broad diversification, and execution technology enable us to provide competitive bids and offers in over 19,000 securities, at more than 235 venues, in 36 countries.

The Role

Our Software Development team creates powerful trading tools that facilitate the operation of a high-performance system deployed in financial markets around the world. The Core Development team focuses on the design of our trading system’s core order management protocol, managing internal message processing as well as connectivity to external trading destinations, ensuring all trades flow in and out of our system smoothly and at optimal speed.

Our Software Development team builds tools to support a high-performance trading system used across global markets. The Core Development role concentrates on designing the trading system’s core order management protocol, managing internal messaging processing, and integrating with external trading destinations.

Key Skills

• Mastery of modern C++ programming
• Experience with Java programming
• Between 1–3 years of work experience preferred (talented graduates will be considered)
• Extensive experience developing in a Linux environment
• Experience with complex networking infrastructure (e.g., data traversal in a network, TCP, UDP)
• Strong understanding of computer performance analysis
• Experience programming in high-transaction environments and low-latency systems
• Experience in distributed and/or highly concurrent systems is a plus
• Experience in low-latency systems and/or high-transaction environments is a plus
• Interest in trading and financial markets
• Proficiency in spoken and written Mandarin is required to support the China market and communicate with Mandarin stakeholders
• Enjoy working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Excellent communication skills
• Candidates outside banking and finance preferred

Virtu Financial is an equal opportunity employer, committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace, welcoming you for who you are and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.