Research Technology Developer

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

Virtu’s Research Technology team is looking for a passionate developer to support our ever-expanding research infrastructure. This team forms a small group of technologists whose primary function is developing tools that support Virtu’s Quantitative Strategists and Traders. This is an exciting opportunity to work with a leading trading firm on development projects that will directly impact the firm’s success.

In this role, you will be responsible for the development and maintenance of our research platform with a particular focus on our main research & monitoring database built on OpenText Vertica. This database is used by hundreds of internal users and is a critical part of our infrastructure. It is used by our quants and traders for live monitoring and for resarching new ideas and trading strategies.
As a team, we mostly use Python, C++ , Java and SQL with a variety of open-source tools along with proprietary solutions.

THE ROLE

• Develop, maintain and suppport tools to transform and load hundreds of terabytes of data daily into our main research & monitoring database
• Support, trouble shoot and performance tune our Vertica databases
• Develop tools to organize, manage and ensure the quality of petabytes of market data using distributed file systems and databases
• Create & support tools for all stages of the simulation lifecycle including historical back-tests and production monitoring
• Proactively engage with our quants and traders to help identify and execute requirements
• Improve quality of work product for our trading teams and the wider development community at Virtu by encouraging the best development practices and keeping up to date with new language features and frameworks

THE CANDIDATE

• Experience in managing and working with large datasets and SQL-like databases
• Strong programming skills: fluency in Python and knowledge of C++ or Java
• Exceptional problem-solving skills and ability to solve technical problems under pressure
• Great communication skills and the ability to collaborate with peers
• Intellectually curious and self-motivated
• Ability to communicate within and across teams, at a high and low level, on both technical and non-technical subjects
• Desire to assume responsibility and ownership for the success and progression of the research tech ecosystem
• Familiarity with Unix/Linux environment and tools

THE PROCESS

After passing an application screening, candidates will be sent an online programming test via email from a service called HackerRank as a first step of the process. This is to gain an understanding of the candidates coding ability.

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.