Quant jobs / Virtu Financial

Weekend Trader

A trading role covering weekend and holiday sessions as Virtu's markets move towards 24/7. You act as a risk manager keeping strategies and systems healthy while the main team is off.

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.

Supervise and tune live strategy performance
Manage intraday market and credit risk
Do basic back-office and system health checks
Coordinate with the global trading team

What they ask for

Required

Programming (Python, SQL, Java or C++)
Quantitative problem solving
1-3 years at a financial institution
Reliability and self-discipline
Precise communication
Willingness to work weekends

Preferred

Prior trading experience

Education: Bachelor's in a quantitative field preferred; strong graduates considered
Experience: 1-3 years at a financial institution
Languages and tools: Python
SQL
Java
C++

How to prepare

Learn intraday risk metrics: exposure, limits and credit risk
Practise Python and SQL for monitoring and incident analysis
Study how automated market-making strategies behave in stress
Prepare for a HackerRank-style online test

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.