C++ Backend Engineer — Digital-Asset Trading

Company Description

Tradeweb is a global leader in electronic trading for rates, credit, equities, and money markets. As financial markets become increasingly interconnected, our technology enables efficient, multi-asset trading on a global scale. We serve more than 3,000 clients in more than 85 countries, including many of the world’s largest banks, asset managers, hedge funds, insurers, corporations, and wealth managers.

Creative collaboration and sharp client focus have helped fuel our organic growth. We facilitated average daily trading volume (ADV) of more than $2.2 trillion over the past four fiscal quarters, topping $2.5 trillion in ADV for the first quarter of 2025.

Since our IPO in 2019, Tradeweb has completed four acquisitions and doubled our revenues – and 2024 was our 25th consecutive year of record revenues.

Tradeweb is a great place to work, recognized in 2024 by Forbes as one of America’s Best Companies (2024) and by U.S. News & World Report as one of the Best Financial Services Companies to Work For.

Tradeweb Markets LLC ("Tradeweb") is proud to be an EEO Minorities/Females/Protected Veterans/Disabled/Affirmative Action Employer.

Mission:
Move first and never stop. Collaborate with clients to create and build solutions that drive efficiency, connectivity, and transparency in electronic trading.

As an integral part of its technology plan, Tradeweb is looking for a talented, self‑motivated engineer to work within the team developing the company’s next‑generation 24/7 digital‑asset trading platform. The team builds cloud‑based C++ microservices that orchestrates negotiation between counter parties, capture trades and record settlements on ledgers.

Tradeweb Technology jobs are fully remote. The Tradeweb Technology hub is located in our Jersey City office which can be used for team meetings and collaboration efforts. There may be days where travel to the Jersey City office is recommended for organizational off‑sites.

• C++ application development for cloud-based microservices.
• Participate in application design and implementation; contribute to system architecture and drive hands‑on implementation and roadmap decisions.
• Enhancement of our new platform components that handle negotiation of tokenized assets, trade capture and settlement orchestration.
• Development of backend services that integrate with DAML ledgers, existing TW internal services and external service APIs; design message formats and serialization (protobuf/flat buffers or equivalent).
• Design and write unit and integration tests; participate in code and design reviews.
• Analyze and resolve CPU, memory and I/O issues to improve service reliability, prevent resource exhaustion, and ensure predictable behavior under load.
• Drive CI/CD, automated performance and correctness checks, and strong operational practices.
• Design and build systems engineered for 24/7 trading: fault‑tolerant designs, graceful degradation, and fast recovery strategies.
• Recognize critical production and client‑facing issues and prioritize remediation.
• Lead code reviews and contribute to system architecture and roadmap — with ownership for delivering the implemented solutions.

• Strong skills in modern C++ (C++11/14/17/20): templates, RAII, move semantics, data structures and design patterns.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience as a C++ developer, 7‑10 years preferred (Midlevel to Senior).
• Strong systems programming on Linux (gcc/clang, CMake, Conan or equivalent).
• Detailed knowledge of multithreading, synchronization, atomics, and concurrency debugging.
• Production experience shipping cloud‑based microservices with high availability and robust operational practices.
• Proficiency with profiling/debugging tools (perf, gdb, valgrind, sanitizers).
• Excellent problem‑solving skills and the ability to communicate effectively across technical and business teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

• Experience with Kafka (or similar message bus), AWS and Aurora/Postgres.
• Background in financial markets, trading systems, or digital assets.
• Familiarity with Node.js frontends and…