Sr. Data Engineer

What you'll do:

Your data-driven mindset and ability to work with large-scale data systems enable NinjaTrader to serve customers better identify new opportunities and improve processes. As an accomplished data engineer joining the Data & Analytics team this is a terrific opportunity to become part of a fast-growing revolutionary fintech company shaping the future of retail futures trading.

At NinjaTrader you'll play a key role in designing and operationalizing the modern data platform that powers our analytics trading tools and AI initiatives. This role is remote-friendly and reports to the Manager Data & Analytics Engineering.

As a Sr. Data Engineer your primary responsibility is to stay one step ahead of your fellow team members by providing the platform tools and infrastructure they need to deliver deployable solutions to real-world business problems. This goes beyond maintaining pipelines—it's about delivering best-in-class data architecture scalable workflows and real-time solutions that power trading product development and machine learning.

In this role you will:

• Design build and maintain robust data pipelines and data lake architecture for both batch and real-time streaming use cases including high-volume low-latency data processing
• Improve observability alerting and SLOs across data systems so pipelines are easier to monitor and issues are caught early
• Optimize ETL/ELT workflows for performance scalability and fault tolerance
• Develop dbt workflows to onboard Evaluation Partners and create end-of-day reporting for partner analysis
• Build and support event-driven architectures and scalable platform components
• Contribute to the orchestration and automation of workflows
• Integrate complex financial APIs and third-party data sources into internal systems
• Collaborate with analytics product and ML engineers to develop and deploy reliable data products
• Work on feature pipelines and model-ready data to support ML engineers
• Promote high standards in code quality testing and platform reliability
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and foster a collaborative growth-oriented team culture

What you'll need:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field
• 5+ years of experience in data engineering platform engineering or backend development
• Strong skills in SQL and Python for building and testing data solutions
• Hands-on experience with GCP and GCP data products (BigQuery Cloud SQL Cloud Storage etc.)
• Experience with AWS cloud services (S3 Glue Athena Kinesis) in addition to GCP; bonus for EMR
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines infrastructure-as-code and version-controlled deployment workflows (e.g. Terraform GitOps)
• Hands-on dbt experience building and maintaining dbt projects (models tests macros documentation CI)
• Proficiency with workflow orchestration tools (e.g. Airflow Prefect)
• Knowledge of data lake architecture including file formats (Parquet Avro) and open table formats (Apache Iceberg)
• Familiarity with event-driven and service-oriented architecture
• A track record of building automated well-tested and observable data systems
• Comfortable working both independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced Agile environment

Bonus points for:

• Hands-on Kubernetes experience especially around data workloads and containerized pipelines
• Experience with streaming technologies (e.g. Kafka Spark Streaming Flink) and comfort working with high-volume low-latency data flows
• Experience with change data capture tools (e.g. Debezium Kafka Connect) and real-time data integration patterns
• Experience with BI tools like Looker Studio or QuickSight
• Experience with observability and monitoring tooling (e.g. Datadog Grafana Prometheus)
• Background in fintech trading or derivatives

Compensation:

The salary range for this role will be $100000.00 - $150000.00 USD. In addition this position will also receive an annual target bonus of 10%. Bonus pay at NinjaTrader is based on individual performance (50%) as well as company/team performance (50%).

Salary and bonus earnings are only two components of the total compensation package offered by NinjaTrader. NinjaTrader offers a 401K plan through ADP under which the company will match up to 3.5% of employee contributions. Annual paid time off allowance accrues at a rate of 18 days per year (some positions may qualify for more) plus seven paid holidays.

Location:

This role is based in Chicago IL. There may be remote flexibility for exceptional candidates in the following states: California Colorado Florida Georgia Illinois Indiana Minnesota Missouri Montana New Jersey New York North Carolina Ohio Oregon Pennsylvania South Carolina Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington Washington DC Wisconsin.

Hybrid:

For Chicago-based employees we follow a hybrid work schedule: In-office Tuesday through Thursday with remote work on Mondays and Fridays. In addition to these weekly remote days we offer:

• 20 additional flex remote days annually
• 5 Company Wide Office-Optional weeks tied to major holidays

What We Do

More than 2 million futures traders trust NinjaTrader's award-winning software and brokerage services to help them trade smarter. Since 2003 we've been building better futures for all traders by making futures trading more accessible scalable and user-friendly. As a bold innovative thought leader in the trading space we build products and services that empower active futures traders to easily analyze and react to data from the world's leading financial markets. Veteran and new futures traders alike look to us for our always-on support daily free education and analysis access to developer apps and much more. We believe in the power of innovation to drive futures trading forward. Together we continue to redefine what's possible in trading advocate for our customers and provide the best tools support and experiences to the fast-growing retail futures trading community. Located in Chicago our entrepreneurial employee-centric culture is inspiring innovative and inviting. We're committed to diversity equity and inclusivity so our team members feel at ease to be themselves and empowered to deliver the work they do best.

Why Work With Us

Our team members are our #1 asset and the signature ingredient to our success. When you join NinjaTrader you become part of an innovative forward-looking community that encourages creativity collaboration and camaraderie to deliver the best futures trading experience possible to our more than 1.8 million users. See why better futures start here.

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