NinjaTrader · 4 months ago
Director of Engineering, Trading Platforms
United States
Full-time
Remote
Director/Executive
$200K/yr - $250K/yr
15+ years expNinjaTrader is an industry-leading trading platform and futures broker on a mission to empower traders to take control of their financial destiny. They are seeking a Director of Engineering to own the technical strategy and execution for their server-side trading platform, leading backend engineers and ensuring systems are low-latency and scalable.
FinTechSoftwareTrading Platform
Responsibilities
Manage multiple engineering managers, fostering a high-performing organization and cultivating a culture of continuous improvement, quality, and reliability
Attract, retain, and grow top-tier talent to build exceptional engineering teams that deliver delightful trading experiences
Define and evolve the technical roadmap for the trading platform (matching, risk, market data, connectivity, clearing)
Work closely with the CTO and Chief Architect to shape and refine the overarching engineering strategy
Partner with SRE to enforce 'everything-as-code' infrastructure (Terraform) and progressive deployment pipelines (FluxCD)
Champion OpenTelemetry-first, vendor-agnostic observability that scales cost-effectively
Collaborate with Product, Risk, Compliance, and Customer Success to translate trading-business objectives into robust backend capabilities
Qualification
Required
15+ years of total software engineering experience, with 5+ years leading multiple backend or platform teams in a trading setup
Proven track record building and operating low-latency, high-concurrency trading, market-data, or high-frequency messaging systems (equities, futures, FX, crypto, or similar)
Deep knowledge of performance-oriented programming on the JVM (Scala, Java, Kotlin) or C++/Rust/Go, plus comfort reviewing code in any modern language
Mastery of event-driven, partitioned, and stateful services (e.g., Kafka/Pub-Sub, Aeron, Redis, in-memory caches)
Kubernetes/GKE experience and a strong automation-first mindset using CI/CD tools like Argo CD and GitHub Actions
Demonstrated success implementing observability at scale using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, and log pipelines with cost-efficiency in mind
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; comfortable defending architectural trade-offs to executive, product, and regulatory audiences
Preferred
Experience integrating with clearing firms, FIX gateways, and risk engines
Familiarity with Scala, Akka/Pekko actor systems, and reactive-streams backpressure patterns
Experience with Google Cloud (GKE, Cloud Logging, BigQuery)
Benefits
401K plan through ADP under which the company will match up to 3.5% of employee contributions.
Annual paid time off allowance accrues at a rate of 18 days per year (some positions may qualify for more) plus seven paid holidays.
Generous PTO
7 Paid Holidays Annually + 5 Conditional Holidays Annually
1 Service Day Annually
401k with 3.5% Company Match
Paid Parental Bonding Leave
Health, Vision, Dental Coverage
Life and Disability Insurance Covered 100% by NinjaTrader
Company
NinjaTrader
NinjaTrader provides trading software and brokerage services for futures, forex, and equities markets.
201-500 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
unknownKey Investors
Long Ridge Equity Partners
2025-03-20Acquired
2020-01-06Private Equity
Leadership Team
M
Martin Franchi
Chief Executive Officer
Ryan Pitylak
Executive Vice President of Growth
Recent News
2026-01-13
2026-01-09
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