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Electronic Trading Engineer – Retail Routing

A coding-heavy role in Virtu's risk management group, keeping the systems that route retail equity orders safe and running in real time. It sits between trading and engineering, with ownership of live production systems.

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.

Watch automated routing and risk systems, and triage problems as markets move
Add new strategy features and ship them through code review
Design and analyse retail order-routing experiments and write up results
Work with traders and developers in other regions to make the systems more resilient

What they ask for

Required

Python
SQL on large datasets
Several years in a financial institution
Calm decision-making under time pressure
Attention to detail
Clear communication

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: 3+ years at a financial institution
Languages and tools: Python
SQL
Java
C++
Markets: equities

How to prepare

Learn how US equity orders are routed: venues, order types, smart order routers, trade reporting
Practise SQL on large tick or order datasets and Python analysis of fills
Design a small A/B-style experiment on routing choices and summarise it statistically
Prepare for a HackerRank-style coding screen

What to study

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