Automation Developer

Virtu is a leading financial firm that leverages cutting-edge technology to offer 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.

Our Automation team is looking to hire a developer to help spearhead efforts that will greatly improve upon our ever-increasing workflows and systems. The ideal candidate will be a software enthusiast and passionate about problem solving through programming. 

As part of this role, you'll be immersed in the firm's trading operations and compliance systems, working alongside operations analysts, compliance officers, traders, and developers to architect solutions that are intuitive, maintainable, and most importantly, simplified. Key responsibilities will be to apply your technical expertise to develop tools that reduce daily operational effort, automate data review and reconciliation, and architect new systems and controls that enhance the robustness of the firm’s pre and post trade processes.  

No finance experience is necessary; we're looking for a self-starter who is a technologist at heart, interested in learning the mechanics of trading, and has a genuine drive toward efficiency. 

THE ROLE

• Build, maintain, and refine workflows involving our multiple databases and system APIs
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in our systems and workflows, ensuring critical processes complete within required time windows
• Build internal tools and interfaces that make our systems observable and interactable for non-technical stakeholders
• Extend our systems to support external parties and regulatory or audit requirements
• Collaborate closely with trading operations and compliance teams to identify creative solutions that rely on automation of their tasks and build new processes, controls, and reporting systems
• Act as a process owner and serve as point of contact for triaging and debugging
• Manage the balance of work between longer-term goals and immediate production workflows to ensure progress is made on important initiatives and that operational teams are supported

THE CANDIDATE

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• Strong working knowledge of Python and/or Java
• Strong working knowledge of SQL
• Experience building user interfaces in React or JavaScript (preferred)
• 2+ years of working experience preferred but talented graduates will be considered
• Demonstrated leadership skills and the ability to collaborate with others
• The ability to translate complex problems into practical working solutions
• Outstanding quantitative problem‐solving skills
• The ability to communicate information precisely and with agility
• A "physicalizer"; a person who identifies issues and creates solutions without rigid direction or fanfare

THE PROCESS