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# 2027 Internship - Frontend Engineer (UI) at Virtu Financial

- **Company:** Virtu Financial
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Posted:** 2026-07-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/virtu/jobs/8657500002

## Job description

Virtu is an industry-leading financial technology firm that operates both proprietary trading and client-facing businesses in the global financial marketplace. Our cutting edge, proprietary technology is core to everything we do. We trade in over 35 countries, across 235 financial exchanges and over 25% of retail order flow in the US. is serviced by Virtu.

Our team is a dedicated group of traders, quants and developers that are inspired by the unique and exciting challenges we solve every day. Our culture combines the creativity of a fast paced start up, with the stability of a disciplined financial services firm. We are a flat organization and encourage our people to innovate and lean on their teammates for support and collaboration. We have fun, work hard and strive to be virtuous in all we do.

## FRONTEND DEVELOPER INTERNSHIP

Virtu's internship program offers students an extraordinary opportunity to learn about the firm and the world’s financial markets. We have built a thoughtful and challenging curriculum that introduces students to all aspects of Virtu's business through a company-curated global training week, real world development projects to complete, and engaging social events to get to know our team and culture.

- Location: New York
- Dates: 10 week program, starting June 7th, 2027 - August 13th, 2027 (with flexibility if needed)
- Training: Ongoing training throughout the summer and a training week held in New York
- Projects: Real problems to solve throughout the program. Interns will work from a list of projects and have several senior mentors throughout the summer program.
- Perks: Onsite Barista, weekly happy hours, social events, daily lunch, stocked pantry

Our User Interface (UI) development team is a highly talented group of versatile software engineers who are collaborating with traders and developers to gather requirements, understand needs, and implement real-time trading, visualization, analysis and reporting tools. Ideal candidates will have a passion and talent for designing great, intuitive user interfaces as well as expansive experience around web technologies and Javascript frameworks.

As an intern, you will complete a variety of challenging development projects. You'll work alongside our senior team to improve scalability, performance and efficiency of our cutting edge trading systems. This is a rare opportunity for students to learn first hand how to design and architect trading tools for scale and performance, and to support the massive amounts of data that flow through Virtu's trading systems daily.

## REQUIREMENTS

- Rising juniors, or students expected to be ready for full time employment between December 2027 - June 2028.
- Excellent academic background in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related field
- Strong programming skills in JavaScript, React, and Node
- Experience with TypeScript, Java, C++, Python is a plus
- Being comfortable with a wide variety of projects (frontend/backend, different programming languages)
- A physicalizer; a person who identifies issues and creates solutions without rigid direction or fanfare
- Highly motivated and tenacious individual, with a proven ability to take initiative and work independently and within a team
- Team player: authentic, genuine person who is capable of working collective goals.

## THE PROCESS

After applicants pass an initial resume screening, an online programming test will be emailed to you via HackerRank. Upon review, we will reach out to arrange next steps. We are looking forward to meeting you!

Salary Range: $5,000 - $5,800  weekly (salary range is exclusive of sign on bonuses, housing, meals, benefits or any other forms of compensation)

Virtu Financial is an equal opportunity employer, committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace, welcoming you for who you are and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

## About Virtu Financial

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Virtu Financial is a leading global market maker and financial technology firm that provides liquidity, execution, analytics, and workflow solutions to the world’s financial markets.
- **Entity Type**: Public (NYSE: VIRT)
- **Headquarters**: New York, NY, United States
- **Founded**: 2008
- **Founders**: Vincent Viola

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Financial Services / Financial Technology (Market Making, Trading, Analytics)
- **Target Customers**: B2B – Institutional asset managers, broker-dealers, hedge funds, banks, and other financial intermediaries.
- **Mission/Purpose**: To use technology to create more efficient, transparent markets and provide clients with innovative, transparent trading solutions.

## Products & Services
- **Market Making**: Provides competitive bids and offers in over 25,000 securities across 235+ venues in 37 countries, acting as a liquidity provider to create more efficient markets.
- **Triton EMS**: A global, broker-neutral, multi-asset execution management system that combines Virtu’s liquidity, analytics, and workflow tools into a single interface.
- **Open Technology Platform**: A data-as-a-service solution offering APIs and tools for clients to access Virtu’s market data and analytics.
- **Trading Analytics & TCA**: End-to-end pre-trade, intra-trade, and post-trade analytics, including transaction cost analysis (TCA), outlier monitoring, and peer group data.
- **POSIT Alert**: A global block liquidity indications network for institutional block trading.
- **Execution Services**: Algorithmic trading, direct market access, and broker-neutral execution across equities, fixed income, FX, options, and commodities.
- **Virtu Technology Solutions**: A newly launched offering (2025) that packages Virtu’s technology for external clients.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: As a public company, market cap is publicly available on stock exchanges; specific figure not provided in search results.
- **Key Metric (Revenue)**: Adjusted Net Trading Income of $2,145 million in 2025 (per 2025 Annual Report).
- **Key Metric (Profitability)**: Adjusted EBITDA of $1,399 million; 65% adjusted EBITDA margin in 2025.
- **Clients**: Over 2,000 clients, with 1,400+ active; 70% of the largest global institutional asset managers rely on Virtu’s TCA.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Silver Lake Partners (minority investment); consortium for RFQ-hub expansion; partnerships with multiple exchanges and venues globally.
- **Growth Signals**: Appointed Aaron Simons as CEO in 2025; launched Virtu Technology Solutions; expanded into new asset classes and markets (e.g., prediction markets, fixed income); named No. 1 Buyside Analytics Provider by Bloomberg; continued headcount growth across global offices.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Scale and Liquidity**: One of the largest market makers globally, trading in over 25,000 securities across 235 venues in 37 countries.
- **Proprietary Technology**: Cutting-edge, low-latency trading infrastructure and analytics platform that is core to all operations.
- **High Margins and Efficiency**: 65% adjusted EBITDA margin demonstrates operational discipline and technological leverage.
- **Integrated Multi-Asset Platform**: Clients can access execution, analytics, data, and workflow tools in a single, broker-neutral environment.
- **Industry Recognition**: Consistently wins awards (e.g., TCA Provider of the Year, Best Market Access) and is a trusted partner to major institutions.

## Strategic Focus
- **Technology Investment**: Continuing to invest in world-class trading infrastructure and new technological advancements.
- **Expansion**: Growing into new asset classes (e.g., fixed income, options, prediction markets) and geographies (e.g., Asia-Pacific, Europe).
- **Client Solutions**: Deepening client relationships by expanding the suite of analytics, data, and execution services.
- **Operational Excellence**: Maintaining financial discipline and a culture of continuous improvement.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as a blend of the creativity and speed of a tech startup with the stability and discipline of a financial services firm. Flat, supportive team culture where the brightest ideas win.
- **Work Environment**: Hybrid/office-based depending on role; global offices in New York, Austin, Boston, Chicago, London, Dublin, Singapore, Hong Kong, Sydney, and more.
- **Teams**: Quantitative researchers, software developers, quantitative traders, sales/product specialists, and support teams. Developers work on cutting-edge low-latency systems, machine learning, and high-performance applications.
- **Perks & Development**: 10-week internship program with global training; opportunities to make a real impact on the bottom line; Give Back program with 10,000+ volunteer hours since 2013.
- **Diversity & Inclusion**: VirtuCARES initiative focused on community, awareness, respect, education, and service.

## Sources
1. [Virtu Financial – Official Website](https://www.virtu.com/)
2. [Virtu Financial – Careers Page](https://www.virtu.com/careers/)
3. [Virtu Financial – Greenhouse Job Board](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/virtu)
4. [Virtu Financial – 2025 Annual Report (SEC Filing)](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1592386/000110465926051785/tm2612843d2_ars.pdf)
5. [Virtu Financial – Investor FAQs](https://ir.virtu.com/resources/investor-faqs)

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