NinjaTrader is seeking an engineering leader to head their Evaluation Services Engineering team to build and scale the infrastructure and tools for a rapidly growing segment of their business, enabling prop trading evaluation firms on their platform.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in modern software development, with 5+ years in engineering management roles
- Demonstrated experience building and scaling B2B SaaS or platform products, ideally involving APIs and user-facing dashboards
- Strong backend system design and distributed systems experience
- Familiarity with GCP, BigQuery, WebSockets, and REST APIs preferred
- Proven track record leading cross-functional agile teams and delivering products from inception to production
- Experience managing teams across geographies and working with contractors or embedded function groups
- Experience working in a regulated environment (fintech, trading, brokerage) is a plus
Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a cross-functional engineering team (backend, full-stack, and contractors), fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and agility
- Oversee multiple critical workstreams that support, grow, and provide impact to traders and B2B business partners alike
- Collaborate closely with stakeholders across Product, Solutions Engineering, Data, QA, and Support to deliver impactful solutions for vendors and evaluation traders
- 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 vendor needs
- Hire, develop, and retain top engineering talent to support the growth and evolution of the Eval Squad
- Uphold engineering quality and execution standards, including code reviews, test coverage, release pipelines, observability, and incident response
Other
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience)
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, comfortable presenting technical ideas to both engineers and executives
- Experience in futures trading, evaluation trading, or prop firm ecosystems
- Familiarity with Tradovate or NinjaTrader APIs, dashboards, and middleware
- Background in risk management systems or trading account orchestration
