Jake Ortega

September 10, 2026

Dear Virtu Financial team,

I am applying for the Software Engineer - Web Application, Front-end role at Virtu Financial. I am a Senior Frontend Engineer with more than 10 years of experience building production interfaces across React, TypeScript, Angular, Web Components, React Native, APIs, dashboards, and design systems.

The role interests me because it combines real-time web interfaces, trading tools, visualization, reporting, and close collaboration with domain users. I have spent much of my career building product surfaces where data, performance, workflow clarity, and reliability matter, including automotive, insurance, finance, workforce analytics, and AI-assisted products.

At Lunatech, I built React and React Native applications for workforce insights and reporting, created a conversational frontend for AI-powered analysis workflows, and modernized a large Angular platform while keeping delivery stable. At iO Digital, I built a 63-component Web Components design system used across React, Angular, and Vue, and shipped AI-enabled products with custom streaming interfaces, retrieval workflows, and measurable frontend quality checks.

My project work also maps well to Virtu's expectations. AgentDock, Open Vacancy Radar, and Pipenzo are Electron, React, and TypeScript projects focused on local AI agents, automation, and human-reviewable workflows. Dutch Defend, Flits, and GrabPitik show end-to-end ownership of production UX, payments, entitlement, Firebase, mobile flows, and release work.

I am based in the Netherlands and would need sponsorship or relocation support for a New York hybrid role. If Virtu can support that path, I would be excited to bring strong frontend architecture, React, TypeScript, API integration, testing, and product judgment to the UI development team.

Sincerely,
Jake Ortega