Engineering Manager
NinjaTrader
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Chicago • California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Florida, Illinois, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $160,000 - $210,000 per year
Job Level
SeniorLead
Tech Stack
Cloud
About the role
- Lead the team responsible for enhancing our existing, high-quality API platform, ensuring scalability, reliability, and low-latency performance
- Oversee multiple critical workstreams that support, grow, and provide impact to traders and B2B business partners alike
- Collaborate closely with stakeholders across Product, Account Managers, Compliance, QA, and Customer Success to deliver impactful solutions for our broker partners
- Drive engineering delivery, architecture, and operational readiness for the platform components under your domain, including the risk engine, trading permission systems, middleware dashboards, and admin consoles
- Partner with Product leadership on roadmap and prioritization aligned to business growth and partner needs
- Hire, develop, and retain top engineering talent to support the growth and evolution of the NT Connect team
- Uphold engineering quality and execution standards, including code reviews, test coverage, release pipelines, observability, and incident response
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience)
- Strong background in API platform development for external partners (REST, WebSockets or FIX familiarity is a plus)
- 8+ years of experience in modern software development, with 3+ years in engineering management roles leading 0 to 1 teams
- Demonstrated experience building and scaling B2B SaaS or platform products, ideally involving APIs and user-facing dashboards
- Deep understanding of security best practices for exposed APIs, backend services, and cloud infrastructure, including authentication, authorization, entitlements, data isolation, encryption, and auditability
- Proven track record leading cross-functional agile teams and delivering products from inception to production
- Familiarity with financial systems, trading concepts (orders, fills, margins), account lifecycle, and regulated workflows (KYC/AML, reporting), enabling compliant, enterprise-grade API design
- Experience managing teams across geographies and working with contractors or embedded function groups
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills. Comfortable presenting technical ideas to both engineers and clients
- Experience working in a regulated environment (fintech, trading, brokerage) is a plus
Benefits
- 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
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Hard skills
API platform developmentRESTWebSocketsFIXB2B SaaScloud infrastructuresecurity best practicesagile methodologiessoftware developmentengineering management
Soft skills
communication skillsstakeholder managementteam leadershipcollaborationproblem-solvingpresentation skillstalent developmentcross-functional teamworkorganizational skillsincident response
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer ScienceBachelor's degree in Engineeringrelated technical field degree