Hybrid Engineering Manager

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About the role

  • Engineering Manager of NinjaTrader's NT Connect Platform. Leading API development and enhancing B2B integrations for brokers and partners with a focus on scalability and reliability.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the team responsible for enhancing our existing, high-quality API platform, ensuring scalability, reliability, and low-latency performance
  • Oversee multiple critical workstreams that support, grow, and provide impact to traders and B2B business partners alike
  • Collaborate closely with stakeholders across Product, Account Managers, Compliance, QA, and Customer Success to deliver impactful solutions for our broker partners
  • 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 partner needs
  • Hire, develop, and retain top engineering talent to support the growth and evolution of the NT Connect team
  • Uphold engineering quality and execution standards, including code reviews, test coverage, release pipelines, observability, and incident response

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience)
  • Strong background in API platform development for external partners (REST, WebSockets or FIX familiarity is a plus)
  • 8+ years of experience in modern software development, with 3+ years in engineering management roles leading 0 to 1 teams
  • Demonstrated experience building and scaling B2B SaaS or platform products, ideally involving APIs and user-facing dashboards
  • Deep understanding of security best practices for exposed APIs, backend services, and cloud infrastructure, including authentication, authorization, entitlements, data isolation, encryption, and auditability
  • Proven track record leading cross-functional agile teams and delivering products from inception to production
  • Familiarity with financial systems, trading concepts (orders, fills, margins), account lifecycle, and regulated workflows (KYC/AML, reporting), enabling compliant, enterprise-grade API design
  • Experience managing teams across geographies and working with contractors or embedded function groups
  • Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills. Comfortable presenting technical ideas to both engineers and clients
  • Experience working in a regulated environment (fintech, trading, brokerage) is a plus

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

Job title

Engineering Manager

Job type

Experience level

SeniorLead

Salary

$160,000 - $210,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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