Chicago, IL
Futures trading platform and brokerage services
NinjaTrader provides award-winning trading software and brokerage services for active traders in futures, forex, and equities markets. It offers customizable platforms with advanced charting, backtesting, and low-latency execution, serving over 1.8 million users globally. The platform enables efficient analysis and trading across web, mobile, and desktop for professional-grade futures trading.
Manages and expands international evaluation-services partner accounts, driving customer acquisition, regional growth, and revenue across global markets. Requires 5–8+ years in account management, business development, or partnerships, plus experience with cross-border relationships and strategic accounts.
Sr. Software Engineer building and owning Scala-based backend systems for NinjaTrader's Evaluation Services, including real-time auto-liquidation, risk evaluation, and trading services. Requires 5+ years backend experience with strong Scala, actor models, PostgreSQL, and event-driven architectures.
Provide front-line operational support and incident response for critical FCM financial processes at NinjaTrader. Design monitors, maintain runbooks and DAGs, implement observability with OpenTelemetry/Kafka, and collaborate with engineering to improve resiliency of distributed systems.
Lead a team responsible for daily regulatory filings, monthly 1-FR-FCM reports, NFA/CFTC segregation reporting, reconciliations, and audit readiness at a futures brokerage. Requires 3-5 years FCM regulatory experience, team leadership skills, and cross-functional partnership with Product, Compliance, Risk, and Technology.
Senior Software Engineer serving as the technical advisor and integration expert for partners using NinjaTrader's Evaluation Services APIs and funded trader platform. Diagnoses complex API/WebSocket issues, conducts code reviews, builds diagnostic tools, and drives platform improvements based on partner feedback.
Senior Design System Designer responsible for evolving and scaling a multi-platform design system at NinjaTrader. Create/maintain reusable UI components, tokens, Figma libraries, and documentation while partnering with Design, Product, and Engineering teams to ensure consistency, accessibility, and efficiency across web, desktop, and mobile trading experiences.
Senior individual contributor owning cloud security architecture and guardrails for GCP workloads at a fintech trading platform. Leads threat modeling, edge defenses with Cloudflare/Armor, policy-as-code, incident response, and compliance controls while mentoring engineers.
Lead influencer and creator marketing programs for a fintech trading platform to drive user acquisition, engagement, and brand trust. Manage end-to-end campaigns, ensure regulatory compliance in financial promotions, analyze performance KPIs, and build long-term partnerships with finance creators.
Director responsible for owning NinjaTrader's website strategy and execution to drive customer acquisition, engagement, conversion, and revenue. Requires 8+ years in SEO/website marketing, deep SEO/CRO expertise, cross-functional leadership, and experience with analytics tools.
Staff Security Engineer owning application, API, and supply chain security domains. Hands-on role integrating security into engineering workflows via threat modeling, tooling (SAST/SCA/DAST), automation, and risk-based vulnerability management in cloud-native environments.
Mid-level GRC Engineer building automation and tooling to scale compliance for SOC 2, ISO 27001, and SOX. Hands-on role combining scripting, audit coordination, risk management, and cross-functional partnership with engineering teams.
Provide phone, chat, and email support to NinjaTrader clients in English and Spanish. Assist with account setup, technical troubleshooting, and trading education while managing data in Salesforce and collaborating with internal teams.
Lead design, development, and optimization of Scala-based, low-latency trading infrastructure and services for high-volume, 24x7 retail futures trading. Requires extensive experience building high-performance distributed trading systems, JVM tuning, and mentoring engineers.
Design and maintain scalable data pipelines and lake architecture on GCP/AWS to power analytics, trading tools, and ML initiatives. Requires 5+ years experience, strong SQL/Python, dbt, orchestration tools, and cloud infrastructure experience.
Senior software engineer building and maintaining low-latency exchange connectivity, market data handlers, and order gateways for a leading trading platform. Requires 8+ years trading industry experience with C++ or Rust.
Staff-level Scala engineer to design, build, and operate a high-throughput, low-latency trading platform on Kubernetes. Requires 8+ years building reactive distributed systems and 5+ years with Scala/JVM.
Design, build, and deploy scalable Scala backend systems in Kubernetes for high-performance trading platform. Requires 6+ years experience and strong distributed systems expertise.
Own the vision, structure, and execution of the Technical Account Management team. Manage TAMs, directly own complex high-revenue partner relationships, run EBRs, and influence the product roadmap.
Senior backend engineer building scalable API and WebSocket services for a fintech brokerage platform. Requires 8+ years experience with JVM languages, Kubernetes/GCP, and distributed systems in a hybrid Chicago role.
Senior fullstack engineer building NT Connect, an API-based brokerage integration layer. Work across backend services, APIs, and frontend tooling using Node.js, TypeScript, and React on GCP with Docker/Kubernetes.
Leads end-to-end UX design for product verticals at a trading platform, owning customer-centric solutions, design systems, and cross-functional collaboration. Requires 7+ years experience, strong Figma proficiency, and portfolio of complex product designs.
Supports in-house legal team with litigation, regulatory compliance, contract management, and corporate records for FinTech entities including futures brokerage. Requires 2+ years paralegal experience, strong organization, and proficiency in Microsoft Office and document systems.
Staff Engineer owns technical architecture for FCM platform's Transaction Ledger & Treasury systems, modernizing to cloud-native GCP/Kubernetes while ensuring financial correctness and regulatory compliance. Requires 8+ years experience in distributed systems, backend languages, and financial tech.