Sr. Engineering Manager (Trader Experience, Web)

NinjaTrader is an investor-backed, growth-stage fintech company with an award-winning platform and over 1.5 million users.

We are building products and services that empower active traders to easily analyze and react to data from the world's leading financial markets.

Located in Chicago, our unique employee-centric company culture is one that our team finds inviting, energizing, and fun.

Please visit www.ninjatrader.com to learn more about our business.

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Sr. Engineering Manager Trader Experience, Web

NinjaTrader is a private equity backed, growth-stage fintech company offering award-winning software, modern brokerage services, and best-in-class customer support to a community of 1.

7 million users around the globe. Our cloud-based futures trading platform is available via desktop, mobile, and web applications, enabling users to trade from any location.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced engineering leader to lead our newly formed Trader Experience team. Your work will be core to our mission to be the #1 retail trading platform in the world by making better traders through client-centric web experiences.

As a leader in our technology organization, your team's work will have a deep impact on our customers, directly influencing our business's bottom line.

In this role, you will :

• Mentor and manage a diverse team of Software Engineers across a spectrum of seniority, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and excellence in execution.
• Assume an active role in the career development of direct reports with regular 1 : 1s, direct feedback, and coaching.
• Engage in hands-on design and ensure alignment of strategy, architecture, tools / methods with software engineers and architects to execute product roadmaps.
• Oversee release processes and ensure smooth deployments, minimizing downtime and impact on users.
• Hire the best talent to help build and grow NinjaTrader's product engineering teams.

Key Position Requirements :

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of engineering experience working in agile software engineering teams designing and building external client-facing software products in a fast-paced, complex, and dynamic product development environment.
• 5+ years of leadership experience managing product-focused engineering teams, ideally in a distributed setting.
• Experience with project management tools such as JIRA.
• A strong frontend web engineering background with deep understanding of core front-end technologies and frameworks : HTML, JavaScript / TypeScript, CSS, server-side scripting, websockets, and cloud deployment pipelines.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical problems concisely to a non-technical audience.

Our Core Benefits Include :

• 15+ days PTO per year
• 7 paid holidays annually
• 401k with Company Match
• Health, Vision, Dental Coverage
• Life and Disability Insurance covered 100% by NinjaTrader.
• And more!

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

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