2027 Internship - Frontend Engineer (UI)

Virtu Financial; New York (NY); On-site; USD 227,500 - 263,900; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Onsite Barista

Weekly happy hours

Social events

Daily lunch

Stocked pantry

Job summary

Virtu Financial invites rising juniors to join a Frontend Developer Internship in New York. You will work on UI features for real-time trading, collaborate with traders and engineers, and contribute to scalable, high-performance trading tools.

The program spans 10 weeks with mentorship, ongoing training, and hands-on projects across frontend and backend areas. Ideal candidates are strong in JavaScript/React/Node with exposure to TypeScript, Java, C++, and Python.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Highly motivated and tenacious, with initiative and teamwork.
• Team player who collaborates toward common goals.

Responsibilities

• Assist in building cutting-edge UI features for real-time trading tools.
• Collaborate with traders and developers to gather requirements and implement solutions.
• Improve scalability, performance and efficiency of trading systems.
• Contribute to design and architecture discussions for trading tools.

Skills

JavaScript

React

Node

TypeScript

Java

C++

Python

Education

Computer Science / Electrical Engineering or related field

Tools

TypeScript

Java

C++

Python

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.

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.