Senior Java Algo Developer

Tradeweb Markets

New York (NY)

Remote

USD 175,000 - 250,000

Full time

9 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Hybrid Environment

401(k) Savings Plan

Tuition Reimbursement

Wellness Perks

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Tradeweb Markets is seeking a Senior Java Engineer to write production code daily, optimize hot paths, and design new algorithmic components for low-latency trading infrastructure. You will own the algo pipeline and contribute across market-data ingest, strategy decisioning, and order routing.

Based in the Tradeweb Technology hub with a remote-friendly policy, the role emphasizes JVM tuning, high-performance messaging, and collaboration with in-house quant teams to deliver deterministic

Qualifications

8+ years building production Java systems with latency-sensitive trading infrastructure.
Proven JVM optimization for microsecond-to-low-millisecond latency budgets.
Deep experience with high-performance messaging and IPC and binary wire formats.
Production FIX experience across multiple FIX versions with a Java FIX engine.
Experience with time-series market-data systems and CEP for strategy hosting.

Responsibilities

Own latency and throughput end-to-end from market-data ingest through gateway egress.
Design and implement new algorithmic order types and synthetic multi-leg logic.
Profile and tune the JVM hot path and manage GC behavior and concurrency.
Operate the algo pipeline including backtesting, certification, and shadow-trading.
Partner with in-house quant team to translate signals into production-grade code.
Maintain venue connectivity with FIX gateways and exchange integrations.
Modernize legacy services from Java 8 to current LTS without disruption.

Skills

Java development

JVM optimization

High-performance messaging

Production FIX

Latency-sensitive trading infra

CEP / execution strategy

Tools

Aeron

Chronicle Queue

LMAX Disruptor

SBE / FlatBuffers

QF/J or FIX engine

Job description

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 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, judgement, and accountability

Group Details

We're hiring a Senior Java Engineer. This is a highly hands-on role where you'll be writing production code alongside the team every day. You'll spend most of your time optimizing hot paths, designing new algorithm containers, and improving end-to-end latency.

You will also own the algo pipeline: how strategies move from research and calibration through certification and into production. Your work spans market-data ingest, strategy decisioning, order routing, and gateway egress — all under microsecond-to-low-millisecond budgets.

Asset coverage: fixed income is our anchor today, with an active roadmap to expand the platform across additional asset classes — listed derivatives, FX, crypto, and others as the business grows.

Tradeweb Technology jobs are fully remote. The Tradeweb Technology hub is 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

Own latency and throughput end-to-end — from market-data ingest through strategy decisioning to gateway egress. You set the bar and the budgets, and you measure them.
Design and implement new algorithmic order types and synthetic multi-leg execution logic, with fixed income as the current anchor and new asset classes coming online as the roadmap expands.
Profile and tune the JVM hot path — GC behavior, allocation patterns, lock-free concurrency, off-heap memory, mechanical sympathy. JFR / async-profiler / flame graphs are daily tools.
Operate the algo pipeline — version control, certification harness, backtesting and shadow-trading frameworks, and post-trade analytics for strategy health.
Partner with our in-house quant team — translate their signals and research into algorithmic designs and deterministic, production-grade execution code. You don't need to be a quant; you need to work fluently with them.
Maintain venue connectivity — FIX-based client gateways, exchange-direct integrations, ECN and venue connectors, and new asset-class connectivity as the platform expands.
Modernize legacy services from Java 8 onto current LTS — sequence the migration without disrupting trading flow and bring older modules onto the same standards as the rest of the platform.

Qualifications

8+ years building production Java systems, with at least 4 years in latency-sensitive trading infrastructure (HFT, market making, execution algos, low-latency OMS/EMS, or equivalent).
Demonstrated JVM optimization for microsecond-to-low-millisecond latency budgets: GC tuning (G1, ZGC, Shenandoah, or Azul Zing), JIT behavior, escape analysis, allocation profiling, and lock-free concurrency primitives.
Deep experience with high-performance messaging and IPC — Aeron, Chronicle Queue / Chronicle Map, LMAX Disruptor, or equivalent — and binary wire formats such as SBE, FlatBuffers, or proprietary.
Production FIX experience across 4.2, 4.4, 5.0 SP2, and FIXT, with hands-on use of a Java FIX engine (QuickFIX/J, Fix Antenna, or proprietary). Comfortable extending custom tags and managing session-level concerns.
Tick-store / time-series market-data systems — capture, persistence, deterministic replay, and use in research and backtesting workflows.
Complex-event-processing (CEP) for strategy hosting — instrument lifecycle, order state machines, leg-by-leg synthetic execution, and deterministic strategy containers.
Exchange-grade order management and execution — OMS/EMS internals, smart order routing, pre-trade risk (limit checks, fat-finger guards, kill switches), and post-trade reconciliation.
Working familiarity with C# / .NET — several adjacent tools in our stack are .NET-based; you can read, debug, and occasionally contribute.

Preferred Qualifications

Institutional electronic trading across multiple asset classes — fixed income, listed derivatives, equities, FX, or crypto. Breadth across asset classes is a meaningful plus.
Crypto execution experience: spot connectivity (Coinbase, Binance, OKX, Kraken), CEX/DEX routing, perpetual futures, or basis trading across venues.
Hands-on colo operations in major financial data centers (e.g., AUR, NY4, LD4, TY3, FR2).
Exchange-direct market data and order entry: CME MDP3 / iLink, ICE eFix, Eurex ETI/EOBI, NASDAQ ITCH/OUCH, or equivalent venue-native protocols.
Kernel-bypass networking (Solarflare/Onload, DPDK, eBPF) and OS-level tuning — CPU isolation, IRQ pinning, hugepages, NUMA awareness.
Experience with deterministic simulation, event-driven backtesting frameworks, and TCA / execution-quality measurement.

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 $175,000 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 11/1/26.

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