Back to jobs

Internship – Agency Trading and Coverage

Singapore

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.


The Role

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 trading problems to solve and engaging social events to get to know our team and culture.

 

  • Location: Singapore
  • Dates: 10 week program, starting June 8th 2026 - August 14th 2026 (with some flexibility if needed).
  • Training: Ongoing training throughout the summer and a training week held in Singapore.
  • 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: Daily Breakfast, Lunch Allowance, Transport Allowance, Onsite Gym & Workout Classes, Massage Sessions, Social Events

 

Our Virtu Execution Services (‘VES’) team is responsible for providing a robust product suite including offerings in execution, liquidity sourcing, analytics and broker-neutral, multi-dealer platforms in workflow technology. This role will work alongside with Virtu’s quantitative algo traders, product coverage, and sales to understand the full the suite designed for our agency clients. We've designed the internship to be very hands-on; interns will spend most of their time solving trading problems as they occur in the markets and interacting with client facing projects. The successful candidate should be highly motivated and driven to proactively engage clients and understand their needs.

This is a great opportunity for the right candidate to kick start a career in the financial technology space.


REQUIREMENTS

  • Rising juniors, or students expected to be ready for full time employment between December 2026 - June 2027
  • Excellent academic background
  • Very strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Exceptional interpersonal skills
  • Strong interest in client engagement
  • 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.

 

DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED:

  • Working with financial systems or knowledge of the global financial market place
  • Practical experience in programming a plus (including Python, SQL or R)

 

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!
 


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.

Create a Job Alert

Interested in building your career at Virtu Financial? Get future opportunities sent straight to your email.

Apply for this job

*

indicates a required field

Resume/CV*

Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtf

Cover Letter

Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtf


Education

Select...
Select...
Select...
Select...
Select...

Select...
What is your expected graduation year?
Select...
Select...
Select...
Select...
Select...
Select...
Please only apply to one internship position. If you are interested in other internship tracks, please select them below: