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How Ninjatrader hires

Truth index
A 85/100
Median time to fill
47 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
60%
Reposted roles
0%

Ninjatrader scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 5 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 60% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 47 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Overview

NinjaTrader offers exclusive software for futures trading. With our modern trading platform, you will control every step of your trading journey. Open account to trade futures with us!

News

Press release PRNewswire 3 months ago
NinjaTrader Group Appoints First Chief Innovation & AI Officer and New Chief Product Officer to Accelerate Platform Growth
/PRNewswire/ -- NinjaTrader Group, a global leader in retail futures trading, today announced two executive leadership appointments designed to advance the...
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Press release PRNewswire 4 months ago
UFC AND NINJATRADER ANNOUNCE EXPANSIVE MULTIYEAR PARTNERSHIP
/PRNewswire/ -- UFC, the world
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News Cointelegraph 1 year ago
Kraken finalizes NinjaTrader buy as Q1 revenue jumps 19%
Kraken has completed its acquisition of NinjaTrader and can offer traditional derivatives in the US, while the exchange
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News BI Strategy 1 year ago
NinjaTrader Review 2025: Fees, Trustworthiness, and Alternatives
Explore our NinjaTrader 2025 review. Learn how to customize your futures trading experience with advanced technical indicators and market analysis.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Ninjatrader over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
78
Postings analysed
20
Stack modernity
79/100AI adopter
Languages
SQL45%
Python40%
JavaScript20%
Scala15%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js10%
Akka5%
Apache Pekko5%
OpenTelemetry5%
Databases
BigQuery15%
Google BigQuery15%
PostgreSQL10%
Apache Iceberg5%
Cloud & platforms
GCP50%
Kubernetes35%
AWS25%
Apache Kafka20%
AI & ML
LLM5%
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Full Ninjatrader tech stack 78 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$185k
Typical range
$91k – $220k
Open positions
19
19 Jobs
Junior 10.5%
Senior 52.6%
Staff 26.3%
Principal 5.3%
Architect 5.3%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 2 $136k $91k – $180k
Senior 10 $168k $110k – $190k
Staff 5 $210k $190k – $212k
Principal 1 $220k $220k
Architect 1 $216k $216k
Highest paying role Principal Software Engineer, Trading Systems $220k
Normalized to USD per year

Growth

Hiring Momentum
69/100
Growing
Open positions
21
6 opened / 6 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
47 days
faster than 31% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~9 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
20% ▼
HR
15% ▼
Analytics
10% ▲
Marketing
10% ▼
Data Science
5% ▲
DevOps
5% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added Slack to stack Sep 2026
Added Google Workspace to stack Sep 2026
Added Outlook to stack Sep 2026
Added Jira to stack Sep 2026
Added Confluence to stack Sep 2026
Added Playwright to stack Sep 2026
Added SIEM to stack Sep 2026
Added TCP/IP to stack Sep 2026
Added DNS to stack Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Chicago
Chicago United States
HQ
Chicago
21 open roles 20 posted in 90 days 62% engineering 200-500 est. staff $176k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Data Science, Analytics
seen since Jun 2025 careers board, job postings

Jobs

$162k – $212k per year • Hybrid • 10+ years exp • Master's Degree • Chicago
Python
SQL
Google BigQuery
BigQuery
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$82k – $132k per year • Hybrid • 5+ years exp • Chicago
JavaScript
TypeScript
CI/CD
QA
Playwright
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$140k – $190k per year • Hybrid • 6+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Chicago
JavaScript
TypeScript
SQL
Node JS
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
Cursor
Claude Code
OpenAI Codex
DevOps
GCP
Docker
Kubernetes
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$140k – $190k per year • Hybrid • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Chicago
Rust
C++
COBOL
IBM MQ
DevOps
Rest API
WebSockets
Linux
Cybersecurity
Wireshark
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$125k – $175k per year • Hybrid • 5+ years exp • Chicago
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
React.js
DevOps
Rest API
WebSockets
QA
Swagger
Postman
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$110k – $160k per year • Hybrid • 7+ years exp • Chicago
JavaScript
Tailwind CSS
React.js
Radix UI
Storybook
shadcn/ui
Design
Figma
Zeroheight
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$100k – $150k per year • Hybrid • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Chicago
Python
SQL
Apache Iceberg
Apache Kafka
Google BigQuery
BigQuery
AI/ML
Spark
Airflow
dbt
Prefect
Flink
Machine Learning
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
Datadog
Prometheus
CI/CD
GitOps
AWS
Kubernetes
Grafana
Platform Engineering
Amazon S3
Amazon Kinesis
Analytics
ETL/ELT
Looker
Management
Agile
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$125k – $175k per year • Hybrid • 5+ years exp • Chicago
Go
Rust
SQL
Scala
Akka
ScalaTest
Apache Pekko
Databases
PostgreSQL
Apache Kafka
DevOps
gRPC
GCP
Datadog
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≈ $99k – $193k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Chicago
Python
Go
Java
Kotlin
SQL
C#
Scala
MySQL
PostgreSQL
DevOps
GCP
CI/CD
Platform Engineering
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$135k – $185k per year • Hybrid • 6+ years exp • Chicago
SQL
Snowflake
Google BigQuery
BigQuery
AI/ML
dbt
AI Agents
LLM
Analytics
Fivetran
Looker
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$150k – $190k per year • Hybrid • 7+ years exp • Chicago
Figma
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$160k – $210k per year • Hybrid • 8+ years exp • Chicago
Python
Go
C++
Terraform
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Kubernetes
SLI/SLO/SLA
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