2027 Internship - Software Engineer

Virtu Financial

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Austin, TX New York Until 9/20/2026 H-1B sponsor history First posted July 22, 2026 Last posted July 22, 2026
Job description
Virtu is an industry-leading financial technology firm that operates both proprietary trading and client-facing businesses in the global financial marketplace. Our cutting edge, proprietary technology is core to everything we do. We trade in over 35 countries, across 235 financial exchanges and over 25% of retail order flow in the US. is serviced by Virtu. 
 
Our team is a dedicated group of traders, quants and developers that are inspired by the unique and exciting challenges we solve every day. Our culture combines the creativity of a fast paced start up, with the stability of a disciplined financial services firm. We are a flat organization and encourage our people to innovate and lean on their teammates for support and collaboration. We have fun, work hard and strive to be virtuous in all we do. 

DEVELOPER INTERNSHIP

Virtu's internship program offers students an extraordinary opportunity to learn about the firm and the world’s financial markets. We have built a thoughtful and challenging curriculum that introduces students to all aspects of Virtu's business through a company-curated global training week, real world development projects to complete, and engaging social events to get to know our team and culture. 
  • Location: Austin, New York
  • Dates: 10 week program, starting June 7th, 2027 - August 13th, 2027 (with flexibility if needed)
  • Training: Ongoing training throughout the summer and a training week held in New York or Austin 
  • Projects: Real problems to solve throughout the program. Interns will work from a list of projects and have several senior mentors throughout the summer program.
  • Perks (varies by location): Onsite Gym & workout classes, Onsite Barista, weekly happy hours/social events, Breakfast & Lunch, Transportation

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, you will complete a variety of challenging development projects. You'll work alongside our senior team to improve scalability, performance and efficiency of our cutting edge trading systems. This is a rare opportunity for students to learn first hand how to design and architect a trading system 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 2027 - June 2028.
  • Excellent academic background in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related field
  • Strong programming skills in Python and either Java or C++
  • Experience with JavaScript a plus
  • Some lower level programming experience a plus but not required
  • 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.
THE PROCESS
 
After applicants pass an initial resume screening, an online programming test will be emailed to you via HackerRank. Upon review, we will reach out to arrange next steps. We are looking forward to meeting you!
 
Salary Range: $5,000 - $5,800  weekly (salary range is exclusive of sign on bonuses, housing, meals, benefits or any other forms of compensation) 

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.

About this role

Summary

Assist in designing and optimizing high-performance trading systems and algorithms.

Job title

2027 Internship - Software Engineer

Experience level

student, rising juniors

Industry

financial technology

Location requirements

Onsite in Austin, TX or New York, with remote possible

Salary

$5,000 - $5,800 weekly (salary range is exclusive of sign on bonuses, housing, meals, benefits or any other forms of compensation)

Visa sponsorship

H-1B sponsor history

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

PythonJava or C++quantitative problem-solving

Preferred skills

JavaScriptlower level programming

Specializations

trading systemslow-latency systemsproprietary algorithmsperformance optimization
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Austin, TX, USA

On-site City

New York, NY, USA

On-site City
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