2027 Internship – Software Engineer

Virtu Careers; Singapore; On-site; SGD 10,000 - 17,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Daily Breakfast

Lunch Allowance

Transport Allowance

Onsite Gym & Workout Classes

Massage Sessions

Social Events

Job summary

Virtu Financial in Singapore invites rising juniors to join a 10-week Developer Internship. You will work on real-world projects across frontend/backend, mentored by senior engineers, and gain exposure to our low-latency trading systems.

The program emphasizes hands-on learning with weekly training, a formal recruitment timeline for December 2027–June 2028 start dates, and a culture that blends startup pace with financial-services rigor.

Qualifications

• Rising juniors ready for full-time employment between December 2027 and June 2028.
• Strong programming skills in Python and either Java or C++.
• Experience with Javascript a plus.
• Outstanding quantitative problem-solving skills and mathematical aptitude.
• Willingness to work across frontend/backend and multiple programming languages.
• Highly motivated and able to take initiative and work both independently and in a team.
• Team player with a collaborative mindset.

Responsibilities

• Complete a variety of challenging development projects during the internship.
• Work alongside senior engineers to improve scalability, performance, and efficiency of Virtu’s trading systems.
• Learn to design and architect trading systems for scale and to handle large data flows.

Skills

Python

Java

C++

Javascript

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

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.

Developer Internship (Singapore)

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: Singapore
• Dates: 10 week program, starting June 7th 2027- August 13th 2027 (with some flexibility if needed).
• Training: Ongoing training throughout the summer and a training week held in Singapore.
• 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** :** Daily Breakfast, Lunch Allowance, Transport Allowance, Onsite Gym & Workout Classes, Massage Sessions, Social Events

Our development team is a highly talented group of versatile software engineers. These engineers are responsible for the design, development and optimization of our proprietary, low-latency trading systems as well as our proprietary trading algorithms. This team also creates powerful trading tools, which facilitate all trading stages of our high-performance system which is deployed in financial marketplaces around the world.

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 a trading system for scale 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 Python and either Java or C++
• Experience with Javascript a plus
• Some lower level programming experience a plus but not required
• Outstanding quantitative problem‐solving skills and mathematical aptitude
• 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!

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.