C++ Backend Engineer — Digital-Asset Trading

Candidate Experience site•Jersey City, NJ

34d•$150,000 - $270,000•Remote

About The Position

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 counterparties, 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.

Requirements

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.

Nice To Haves

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 integrating backend services.
Knowledge of enterprise DLTs (e.g., Canton) or crypto-native settlement flows.
Deterministic, fault-tolerant system design - idempotency, backpressure and retry strategies, graceful degradation, and resilience patterns.
Integration and API design for external services (gRPC/REST); familiarity with binary/message serialization (protobuf/flatbuffers) and designing stable API contracts.
Robust integration and system testing with Python (pytest), including driving ledger sandboxes and orchestrating containerized test environments.

Responsibilities

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/flatbuffers 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.

Benefits

Health Insurance: Highly competitive medical, dental, and vision programs
Hybrid Environment: Our employees have the flexibility of working in the office and from home.
Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts: You may elect to set aside pre-tax earnings to pay for eligible health care and dependent day care expenses for you and your eligible family members.
Maven Family Building Benefit: Maven offers support for fertility and preconception; pregnancy and post-partum; adoption; surrogacy and pediatrics for children up to age 10. Tradeweb provide a $10,000 lifetime reimbursement towards fertility, egg freezing, adoption and surrogacy expenses.
Building Wealth - 401(k) Savings Plan: Employees are immediately eligible for the 401(k) plan. Participants may contribute up to 75% of eligible compensation into a traditional 401(k) and/or Roth 401(k). Tradeweb will match 100% of the first 4% of compensation that you contribute.
Pre-Tax Commuter Benefits Program
ARAG Legal Services
Employee Assistance Program
Tuition Reimbursement
Financial Wellness Tools
Travel Assistance Benefits
Pet Insurance
Corporate Gym Subsidies
Wellness Perks
Paid Time Off and Parental Leave