Internship Software Engineer

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: Singapore


• Dates: 10 week program, starting June 9th 2025 - August 15th 2025 (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 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 2025 - June 2026


• 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.