Staff Software Engineer, FCM

🕒 February 27

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NinjaTrader

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2003

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

☁️ SaaS

Finance • Fintech • SaaS

NinjaTrader is a leading provider of futures trading platforms and brokerage services designed for both new and experienced traders to access the global futures markets. It offers a comprehensive suite of tools including charting, simulation, market visualization, and order flow tools, all accessible across multiple devices such as PCs, Macs, and mobile devices. NinjaTrader focuses on providing cost-effective and customizable trading solutions, with low margins and commissions, and supports trading in popular markets like E-mini and Micro E-minis, Crude Oil, and Bitcoin futures. The company also offers daily livestreams and comprehensive educational resources to help traders enhance their skills and strategies.

📋 Description

• Define and own the foundational architecture of NinjaTrader’s cloud-native FCM platform on GCP/Kubernetes, including concurrency models, data consistency guarantees, service boundaries, and integration contracts across clearing, risk, and reporting systems • Architect systems that process high-throughput trade flows with deterministic behavior under concurrency, partial failure, and asynchronous clearing acknowledgments across a 24/7 trading window • Serve as the technical north star for the FCM engineering team by conducting deep, meaningful code reviews, pairing on complex problems, and leading architecture and design sessions that elevate the engineering bar • Establish and enforce best practices across the FCM platform, including API design standards, testing strategies (unit, integration, contract, chaos), observability and SLI/SLO frameworks, CI/CD standards, and infrastructure-as-code patterns • Define what excellence looks like for regulated financial systems and hold the team accountable to those standards • Champion the responsible use of AI-assisted coding, testing, and code review workflows to increase velocity and reduce defects while preserving strict financial and audit constraints • Design compliance-critical systems where regulatory requirements are treated as first-class architectural constraints, embedding audit trails, segregation controls, and compliance checkpoints directly into platform design • Partner with engineering leadership, including the CTO and Director of Engineering, to shape broader technical strategy and govern system-of-record architecture, ledger data models, fund movement APIs, reconciliation workflows, and cross-service balance interactions • Represent the FCM platform in cross-functional architecture forums and drive alignment across teams • Take ownership of the most complex and high-impact technical challenges, transforming ambiguous problems into well-defined, executable plans

🎯 Requirements

• 8–12+ years of progressive software engineering experience, with demonstrated impact at the Staff level or equivalent scope of influence • Deep expertise designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems in cloud environments (GCP strongly preferred; AWS or Azure acceptable) • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, event-driven architectures, and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform • Strong proficiency in modern backend languages such as Python, C++, Go, or similar, with the ability to make thoughtful technology decisions grounded in trade-offs • Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools, including code generation, static analysis, and automated test synthesis, to increase productivity and system quality in production environments • Experience in financial services, capital markets, or brokerage technology, including trade lifecycle systems, clearing and settlement, and building systems where correctness and auditability are non-negotiable • Proven track record as a technical authority and mentor who has raised the engineering bar of their teams • Experience designing distributed systems where financial correctness, reconciliation, segregation of funds, and audit integrity are non-negotiable architectural constraints • Excellent communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts to engineers and non-technical stakeholders • Demonstrated ownership of initiatives end-to-end, from problem framing and design through implementation, deployment, and operational maturity.

🏖️ 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