Quantitative Trader - Fixed Income

Job Description

Virtu Financial is seeking a Quantitative Trader to join their Fixed Income Trading desk in Dublin. The ideal candidate will manage risk, configure strategies, and engage in primary market trading. This role involves close collaboration with operations, compliance, brokers, and custodians to generate revenue and mitigate risk for Virtu. Traders design, operate, and improve algorithmic trading strategies on electronic venues and RFQ platforms. They also build and manage relationships with issuers and trading partners, working with software engineers to enhance trading strategies. Virtu Financial aims to expand its product offering in Europe to cover all underlying asset classes.

• Risk management
• Strategy configuration and implementation
• Primary market trading
• Collaboration with operations, compliance, brokers, and custodians
• Design, operation, and improvement of algorithmic trading strategies
• Building and managing relationships with issuers and trading partners

• 2-5 years of experience in a trading support role or similar
• Excellent academic background in a quantitative field (computer science, math, sciences, economics, etc.)
• Bond experience required; knowledge of pricing, settling, and clearing Fixed Income
• ETF knowledge is a plus
• Strong communication skills
• Technical proficiency in SQL and Python
• Ability to identify issues and create solutions independently
• Highly motivated and tenacious individual
• Team player with the ability to work toward collective goals

• Opportunity to enhance and further develop trading strategies
• Work with software engineers
• Be part of a well-established market maker in the ETF space
• Contribute to the expansion of product offerings in Europe