Senior Software Engineer

2 days ago


Chicago, Illinois, United States NinjaTrader Full time
Unlock Your Potential as a Senior Software Engineer at NinjaTrader

We're on a mission to revolutionize the retail trading industry, and we need talented individuals like you to help us achieve our goal. As a Senior Software Engineer on our Trading Services team, you'll play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining our advanced trading system.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design and develop our Scala and AKKA-based trading system deployed on Kubernetes in the 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

What We're Looking For:

  • 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:

  • Hybrid Schedule with Extra Remote Flexibility (Totalling over 55% remote time)
  • Generous PTO
  • 7 Paid Holidays Annually + 5 Conditional Holidays Annually
  • 1 Service Day Annually
  • 401k with 3.5% Company Match
  • Health, Vision, Dental Coverage
  • Life and Disability Insurance Covered 100% by NinjaTrader
  • Flexible Spending Accounts for Transit and Parking
  • Gym Membership

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.



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