NinjaTrader is an investor-backed, growth stage FinTech company servicing hundreds of thousands of traders by providing award-winning software and brokerage services. We are building products and services which 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, comfortable and fun. Please visit to learn more about our business.
Your data-driven mindset and ability to use large data sets enables NinjaTrader to serve customers better, identify new opportunities, and improve processes. As an accomplished data engineer reporting to the Data & Analytics Director, this is a terrific opportunity to join a fast-growing, revolutionary company and be part of our growing Data & Analytics team.
As a Data Engineer, your primary responsibility is to remain a step ahead of your fellow team members. You will support them by providing the tools and infrastructure needed to deliver deployable solutions to business problems. This is more than just building and maintaining data warehouse and ETL pipelines; this is about using your creativity and unique skillset to drive best-in-class analytic solutions. This job is remote-friendly.
In this role, you will:
- Design, develop, and maintain data architecture and pipelines
- Develop and deliver scalable unit-tested data assets and products that empower analysts and drive business workflows
- Evaluate and continuously improve existing data products and solutions
- Work with engineers and product managers to analyze edge cases and plan for architectural scalability
- Manage the deployment of multiple data solutions such as business dashboards and machine learning models
- Be a staunch advocate for best-in-class data development and design
- Participate in design and code reviews with meaningful comments
- Participate in the team's Agile process
- Be a collaborative, helpful, and curious team member
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
- 3 Years of experience with ETL, SQL, PowerBI, Tableau, or similar technologies
- Understanding of data warehousing technologies and event-driven architectures
- Experience working in a fast-paced Agile development environment
- Ability to work autonomously while interacting with multiple business teams and stakeholders
- Experience delivering solutions on Cloud Datawarehouse platforms like Bigdata, RedShift, or Snowflake
- Hands-on experience with Python/R
- Experience with Java or other backend technologies is a plus
- Experience in fintech is a plus
- Passion for futures, derivatives and trading technologies is a strong plus
- 15 days PTO per year
- 7 paid holidays annually
- 401k with Company Match
- Hybrid Work Schedule
- Health, Vision, Dental Coverage
- Life and Disability Insurance covered 100% by NinjaTrader
- Gym Membership