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Chicago, United States NinjaTrader Full time
Job DescriptionJob Description

NinjaTrader is an investor-backed, growth-stage fintech company with an award-winning platform and over 1.5 million users. We are building products and services that empower active traders to easily analyze and react to data from the world's leading financial markets. Located in Chicago, our unique employee-centric company culture is one that our team finds inviting, energizing and fun. Please visit www.ninjatrader.com to learn more about our business.

About You:

Staff Software Engineer (Trading Platform, Scala)

NinjaTrader is an investor-backed, growth-stage modern fintech company offering award-winning software, brokerage services, and world-class support to a community of 1.7 million users around the globe. Our cloud-based futures trading platform is available via desktop, mobile, and web applications, enabling customers to trade from any location.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our Trading Services team. In this pivotal role, you will help evolve our advanced trading system. As a senior engineer on the team, your work will have a profound impact on our core high-throughput, low-latency trading application, directly influencing our business's bottom line.

In this role, you will:

  • Design, develop, and maintain our Scala and AKKA based trading system deployed on Kubernetes in cloud.
  • Architect, deploy, and manage backend services in a Kubernetes environment to ensure scalability, availability, and resilience.
  • Implement and enhance our services architecture for trading applications, promoting modularity and maintainability.
  • Develop distributed systems to support high-performance and low-latency requirements of trading platforms.
  • Implement robust monitoring and logging solutions to track and analyze backend system performance in real-time.
  • Integrate backend systems with market data feeds, ensuring accurate and timely data for trading activities.
  • Collaborate with other engineering teams and Product Managers to deliver end-to-end customer solutions.

Key Position Requirements:

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
  • 5+ years of software development experience with reactive message-driven distributed near real-time applications, preferably in a high-performance, low-latency environment.
  • 3+ years professional experience with Scala (or similar JVM based languages) backend software development.
  • Familiarity with functional programming principles.
  • Experience with Kubernetes and cloud services (e.g., Google Cloud Platform), with a focus on scalability and high-availability.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or equivalent.
  • Exceptional troubleshooting, debugging, and diagnostic skills for cloud and web-based technologies using industry standard observability tooling and frameworks.
  • Deep understanding of modern distributed systems and ability to troubleshoot HTTP/HTTPS, WebSockets, TLS, DNS, TCP/IP, and similar protocols.
  • Dependable team player with strong work ethic, exceptional accuracy, and analytical and problem-solving skills, with a focus on performance analysis and optimization.
  • Ability to take full ownership of projects (design, implement, test, deploy, maintain, iterate), with a focus on delivering high-quality production software.
  • Team player with strong written and verbal communication skills, collaborates effectively, seeks feedback, and strives for continual improvement.

Our Core Benefits Include:

  • 15+ days PTO per year
  • 7 paid holidays annually
  • 401k with Company Match
  • Health, Vision, Dental Coverage
  • Life and Disability Insurance covered 100% by NinjaTrader
  • And more

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.