Software Engineer - Reference Data (Java/SQL)

Virtu is a leading financial firm that leverages cutting edge technology to deliver liquidity to the global markets and innovative, transparent trading solutions to our clients. As a market maker, Virtu provides deep liquidity that helps to create more efficient markets around the world. Our market structure expertise, broad diversification, and execution technology enables us to provide competitive bids and offers in over 19,000 securities, at over 235 venues, in 36 countries worldwide.

We are looking for a seasoned engineer to build and maintain the system that produces essential reference data that is critical for most systems throughout Virtu: trading systems, quantitative research systems, and back office systems.

We offer a dynamic, fast-paced, meritocratic environment with a flat hierarchy. Our teams are passionate about continually improving and raising the bar; learning and teaching are keys to Virtu’s culture.

• Aggregate, validate, enrich, and distribute big datasets from many big data vendors (Bloomberg, LSEG)

• Build, test, implement, and maintain various databases and API

• Architect custom software solutions for business stakeholders to improve daily management and evaluation of data across the firm

• Support large-scale migrations for global, multi-asset data

• At least 5 years of enterprise-level, distributed systems experience in Java

• Strong understanding of relational databases (SQL, Oracle RDBMS)

• Previous experience working within the financial services industry (exposure to trading systems is a plus)

Salary Range: $175,000 - $200,000 (salary range is exclusive of bonuses, benefits or other categories of compensation)