Strategy Developer

Job Description

Virtu Financial is seeking a Strategy Developer to join their team in Singapore. The Strategy Development team is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining proprietary, low-latency trading algorithms and infrastructure. The ideal candidate will be a versatile software engineer with a strong understanding of core Java and/or C++.

Responsibilities include:

• Improving the scalability, performance, and efficiency of existing trading strategies
• Collaborating with Quantitative Traders and Quants to design new strategies
• Building trading analysis and risk monitoring tools

Requirements:

• Mastery of core Java and/or C++
• Ability to design and implement highly optimized, scalable code
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Driven, self-starting personality
• Comfortable with a wide variety of projects (frontend/backend, different programming languages)
• Experience in distributed and/or highly concurrent systems is a plus
• Experience in low-latency systems and/or high transaction environments is a plus

Virtu Financial offers:

• A dynamic, meritocratic environment with a flat hierarchy
• Opportunity to kick start a career in the financial technology space