Responsibilities
- Responsible for risk management, strategy configuration and implementation and primary market trading.
- Work closely with operations, compliance, brokers and custodians to mitigate risk and generate revenue for the firm.
- Design, operate, and improve high-performance algorithmic trading strategies deployed on both electronic trading venues and RFQ trading platforms around the world.
- Build and manage relationships with issuers and other trading partners.
Requirements
- 2-5 years of experience working in a trading support role, or in a comparable role at trading firm or financial institution.
- Excellent academic background. All majors welcome but ones with a quantitative lean preferred (computer science, math, sciences, economics and related fields).
- Bond experience required.
- Technical proficiency - SQL and Python are used by most Traders at Virtu to work more efficiently.
- Prior experience in these or other programming languages are required.
- 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.
Nice to Have
- Knowledge and experience pricing, settling, clearing Fixed Income beneficial.
- ETF knowledge a plus.
