Engineering Manager, NT Connect

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Ninja Trader is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead engineering for our NT Connect Platform—our API-based brokerage integration layer that powers connections with introducing brokers, fintech partners, and third-party platforms. This leader will own the evolution of our brokerage APIs, partner onboarding, reliability, and the roadmap for new clearing, trading, and funding APIs. This role combines platform engineering, customer-facing partnership, and close collaboration across Trading, FCM Operations, Compliance, and Product.

As a leader in our technology organization, your team’s work will shape the foundation of our NT Connect strategy and directly impact partner success, trader outcomes, and revenue growth.

• Lead the team responsible for enhancing our existing, high-quality API platform, ensuring scalability, reliability, and low-latency performance
• Oversee multiple critical work streams 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

• 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, Web Sockets 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…