Staff Software Engineer

About You:

Staff Software Engineer (Trading Platform)

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.