C++ Software Engineer

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Jersey City, NJ, USA
In-Office
150K-250K Annually
Senior level
eCommerce
The Role
Design, implement, and optimize C++ trading applications for equities, including trading ticket functionality, negotiation workflows, and post-trade processing. Collaborate with stakeholders and cross-functional teams, debug large codebases, improve performance and scalability, and partner with QA to deliver resilient, low-latency distributed systems.
Summary Generated by Built In

Tradeweb is a global leader in electronic trading across asset classes. 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 $2.8 trillion over the past four fiscal quarters, topping $3.3 trillion in ADV for the first quarter of 2026.

Since our IPO in 2019, Tradeweb has completed four acquisitions and doubled our revenues – and 2025 was our 26th consecutive year of record revenues.

Tradeweb plays a central role in modernizing market structure by developing innovative trading protocols, embedding analytics into execution, and building technology infrastructure that supports the convergence of traditional and digitally native financial markets. Tradeweb is a great place to work, recognized in 2025 by Forbes as one of America’s Best Companies 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.

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As a technology-driven organization, we value individuals who embrace innovation and are eager to leverage emerging technologies, including AI, to improve efficiency, enhance decision-making, and deliver better outcomes for clients and colleagues. We believe the greatest impact comes from combining technological capabilities with human expertise, judgment, and accountability.

Group Details

We are a passionate team of technologists building the firm’s next-generation fixed income trading platform. As we continue to expand our platform capabilities and product offerings, we are seeking talented individuals to join our team and collaborate closely with both internal stakeholders and external partners to enhance and evolve our trading solutions.

The role is primarily focused on C++ application development for Equities trading products. The work involves developing and enhancing trading ticket functionality, implementing negotiation workflows with multiple dealers to achieve optimal trading outcomes, and building robust post-trade processing capabilities for the supported products.

The team collaborates extensively with several core engineering and business groups across the organization, including the Trading Systems Team, Dealer Software Team, FIX Connectivity Team, and the Front-End Development Team responsible for building trading ticket interfaces using JavaScript. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to high-impact trading technology while working alongside experienced engineers and domain experts in electronic trading.

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.

Job Responsibilities

  • Develop and enhance electronic trading platform capabilities for new asset classes, contributing to the expansion of the firm’s trading product offerings 
  • Collaborate closely with clients and stakeholders to design and implement enhancements that address customer feedback and improve the overall user experience 
  • Build and optimize trading workflows that increase operational efficiency and streamline the trading process for end users 
  • Analyze and resolve ambiguities in trade details and on-screen data presentation to ensure accuracy, clarity, and usability across trading interfaces 
  • Improve application and system performance through ongoing optimization, troubleshooting, and scalability enhancements 
  • Partner with the Quality Assurance team to investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve identified issues, ensuring the delivery of high-quality and reliable software solutions

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
  • 5+ years of professional C++ development experience (C++14/20) in Windows/Linux environments
  • Strong proficiency in object-oriented design, STL, multithreading, and concurrency (synchronization, parallelism)
  • Solid understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, latency, throughput) and network programming
  • Proven experience building complex, distributed, high-throughput, low-latency, and resilient systems
  • Strong debugging skills and ability to quickly understand and work within large, complex codebases
  • Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to accelerate ramp-up on large codebases, improve system understanding, and enhance debugging and development productivity
  • Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively across technical and business teams
  • Self-driven, proactive, and capable of independently ramping up in complex environments

Additional Information

Tradeweb is committed to providing valuable and competitive benefits. In addition to working in our culture of innovation and collaboration, we offer: 

  • 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.
  • The current pay range for this role is currently $150,000 to $250,000 per year, based on a regular, full-time schedule.  The amount of pay offered will be determined by a number of factors, including but not limited to qualifications, market data, and internal guidelines.
  • This role will also be eligible to participate in Tradeweb’s discretionary bonus program. 
  • This role is expected to remain open until 7/10/26.

Other Benefit Programs

  • 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

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
  • 5+ years of professional C++ development experience (C++14/20) in Windows/Linux environments
  • Strong proficiency in object-oriented design and STL
  • Expertise in multithreading and concurrency (synchronization, parallelism)
  • Solid understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, latency, throughput) and network programming
  • Proven experience building complex, distributed, high-throughput, low-latency, resilient systems
  • Strong debugging skills and ability to quickly understand and work within large, complex codebases
  • Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to accelerate ramp-up and improve development productivity
  • Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across technical and business teams
  • Self-driven, proactive, and capable of independently ramping up in complex environments

Tradeweb Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Tradeweb and has not been reviewed or approved by Tradeweb.

  • Fair & Transparent Compensation Feedback suggests pay is generally considered above average for role and market, particularly in specialized finance/tech positions. Employer-posted US salary bands for certain roles indicate healthy total compensation potential.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Generous vacation/PTO is frequently highlighted as a standout element. Flexibility in some roles and regions further supports time-off usability.
  • Parental & Family Support Paid parental leave and financial assistance for fertility, adoption and surrogacy are emphasized in company materials. These family-building supports are described as robust for the sector.

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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
1,061 Employees
Year Founded: 1996

What We Do

Tradeweb Markets Inc. (Nasdaq: TW) is a leading, global operator of electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities and money markets. Founded in 1996, Tradeweb provides access to markets, data and analytics, electronic trading, straight-through-processing and reporting for more than 40 products to clients in the institutional, wholesale and retail markets. Advanced technologies developed by Tradeweb enhance price discovery, order execution and trade workflows while allowing for greater scale and helping to reduce risks in client trading operations. Tradeweb serves approximately 2,500 clients in more than 65 countries. On average, Tradeweb facilitated more than $1 trillion in notional value traded per day over the past four quarters.

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