Senior Java Full Stack Engineer

Reposted 12 Days Ago
Jersey City, NJ, USA
In-Office
150K-225K Annually
Senior level
eCommerce
The Role
The Senior Java Engineer will develop core trading infrastructure, optimize market data communication, and enhance trading systems for fintech clients. Requires expertise in backend technologies and Java development.
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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Group Details

Tradeweb is looking for a seasoned Senior Full Stack Java Engineer to join our team, focusing on developing products for major fintech companies, investment banks, or financial institutions. The ideal candidate will have a solid background in trading infrastructure, user interfaces, and networks. This role demands excellent development skills, a deep understanding of data architecture, and an entrepreneurial approach to design.

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

  • Form a thorough understanding of current backend technologies used to support our institutional trading platforms
  • Create common backend components that work across each of our trading front-ends
  • Architect components to maximize data scalability between our trading infrastructure and front-ends
  • Optimize market data communication between our web-based technology and on-prem trading architecture
  • Enhance trading system experience by building new tools driven by client request
  • Work with our data team to enrich our market data with insightful correlated data events
  • Good understanding of Microservices architecture, Java Spring framework, REST/WebSocket API and Docker

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in backend development with strong proficiency in Core Java and Node.js (TypeScript)
  • Expertise in building scalable, high-performance backend services using Spring Boot and modern Node.js frameworks (Express/NestJS)
  • Strong experience with asynchronous programming, event-driven architecture, and non-blocking I/O in Node.js
  • Solid understanding of multi-threading, concurrency, and synchronization patterns in Java
  • Hands-on experience designing and implementing distributed systems and microservices architectures
  • Proficiency with Kafka, Redis, RESTful APIs, and Java Collections framework
  • Experience working with RDBMS (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and data modeling best practices
  • Familiarity with API design, service orchestration, and backend integration patterns
  • Strong understanding of performance optimization, scalability, and system reliability principles
  • Experience with caching strategies, messaging systems, and real-time data processing

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 if performed in the city of New York is currently $150,000 to $225,000 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, geographic location, and internal guidelines.

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

  • 5+ years of experience in Core Java
  • Expertise in multi-threaded development and synchronization patterns
  • Experience with distributed system design concepts
  • Expertise with Spring Boot, Kafka, Redis, Java Collections, RDBMS
  • Experience with Typescript & Node JS

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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