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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.\nOur 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 organisation 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.\nDeveloper Internship\nVirtu's internship programme offers students an extraordinary opportunity to learn about the firm and the world’s financial markets. We have built a thoughtful and challenging curriculum with projects that introduce students to the many complex and ever-changing problems to solve. Students can expect a company-curated global training week for our interns, real trading and quantitative problems to solve throughout the programme, and engaging social events to get to know our team and culture. \n Location: Dublin, Ireland (onsite)\nDates: 10 week programme, starting 21 June 2027 - 27 August 2027\nTraining: Ongoing training throughout the summer\nProjects: Real problems to solve throughout the programme. Interns will work from a list of projects and have several senior mentors throughout the programme.\nPerks: Daily catered lunches, fully stocked kitchen, on-site gym & workout classes, games room, social events and laundry service.\nOur 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 propriety trading algorithms. 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