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Electronic Trading Engineer – Retail Routing (Asia Hours)

A coding-heavy risk and trading-systems role covering Asia hours while Virtu's US teams are offline, supporting the systems that route retail equity orders. It sits within the global risk management group.

What you’d work on

Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.

Monitor live trading and risk infrastructure overnight and escalate issues
Develop and release new strategy features through the team's review process
Run and report on retail routing experiments
Help shape priorities as coverage moves towards 23/5 trading

What they ask for

Required

Python
SQL on large datasets
3+ years in a financial institution
Composure in fast-moving situations
Attention to detail
Communication and problem solving

Preferred

US equity market structure (venues, smart order routing, order types)
Java or C++
Statistical analysis

Education: Bachelor's in a quantitative field preferred
Experience: Minimum 3 years at a financial institution
Languages and tools: Python
SQL
Java
C++
Markets: equities

How to prepare

Learn US equity market structure and how retail orders reach venues
Build SQL and Python skills for analysing order and fill data
Practise diagnosing a failing pipeline or risk breach and writing a clear escalation
Prepare for a HackerRank-style coding screen

What to study

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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with Virtu Financial and doesn’t handle applications.