Staff Software Engineer, FCM
NinjaTrader is a futures trading provider offering integrated desktop, web, and mobile trading platforms alongside futures brokerage services. It serves new and experienced active futures traders with market access, charting, simulation, education, and support.
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About NinjaTrader
NinjaTrader provides futures brokerage and proprietary trading-platform services for retail and professional traders. Its offering includes access to global futures markets, trading and charting tools, market data, simulated trading, risk-management features, developer customization through a C# framework, education, and customer support. NinjaTrader Clearing, LLC provides brokerage services as a CFTC-registered futures commission merchant and NFA member.
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About the Role
Serve as technical domain owner for NinjaTrader's Transaction Ledger and Treasury systems within its FCM platform, owning financial correctness, reconciliation integrity, system-of-record architecture, cloud-native modernization, and responsible AI-assisted engineering practices.
Requirements
- 8–12+ years of progressive software engineering experience with Staff-level impact.
- Expertise designing and operating large-scale distributed cloud systems.
- Experience with Kubernetes, event-driven architectures, and Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools.
- Strong proficiency in Python, C++, Go, or similar backend languages.
- Experience with AI-assisted development, static analysis, and automated test synthesis.
- Experience in financial services, capital markets, or brokerage technology, including trade lifecycle, clearing, and settlement.
- Track record as a technical authority and mentor.
- Experience with financial correctness, reconciliation, segregation of funds, and audit integrity constraints.
- Excellent communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- End-to-end ownership of initiatives from design through deployment and operational maturity.
Responsibilities
- Define and own the foundational GCP/Kubernetes architecture for the cloud-native FCM platform.
- Architect high-throughput trade systems with deterministic behavior under concurrency, partial failure, and asynchronous clearing.
- Lead code reviews, architecture sessions, pairing, and technical direction for the FCM engineering team.
- Establish API, testing, observability, SLI/SLO, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code standards.
- Define engineering excellence standards for regulated financial systems.
- Champion responsible AI-assisted coding, testing, and code review workflows.
- Design compliance-critical systems with audit trails, segregation controls, and compliance checkpoints.
- Govern ledger architecture, data models, fund movement APIs, reconciliation workflows, and cross-service balances.
- Represent the platform in cross-functional architecture forums.
- Own complex technical initiatives from problem framing through operational maturity.
Benefits
- 401K plan with up to 3.5% company match
- Annual paid time off accruing at 23 days per year plus seven paid holidays
- 20 additional flex remote days annually
- 5 company-wide office-optional weeks tied to major holidays
- 1 service day annually
- Paid parental bonding leave
- Health, vision, and dental coverage
- Life and disability insurance covered 100% by the company