Ninjatrader
Online Brokerage & Trading Platforms
Truth index BSponsors visas
16Open roles2 posted in 30 days
$190kMedian advertised pay+261% vs market
50 daysTime to fillmedian of 20 closed rolesmarket: 39 days
B 81/100Truth index
Facts
as of Nov 15, 2026NinjaTrader 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!
It is hiring: 16 open roles, 2 of them posted in the last 30 days. Its stated pay is 261% above the market estimate for the same roles.
- Headquarters
- Chicago, United States
- Founded
- 2004
- Employees
- 201-500estimated range
- Open roles
- 16Alion job postings
- Website
- ninjatrader.com
As of Nov 15, 2026, Alion lists 16 open roles at Ninjatrader. Ninjatrader is headquartered in Chicago, United States. It was founded in 2004. The median pay stated in its open roles is $190k, across 18 postings that state pay.
Sources: company registers, GLEIF, Wikidata, the company's site, Alion job postingsReport a mistake
What the registers and the postings say about this employer.
Postings are real
Alion truth index: B
81/100
Ghost roles
re-checked against its careers site
0%
Sanctions lists
OFAC SDN, EU consolidated
No match
Phishing reports
OpenPhish, Phishing.Database
None
Layoff notices
US WARN notices on file
None
Full employer checkScam signs in adverts, mail records, visa registers, domain history
Sources: company registers, the Alion truth index, OFAC and EU sanctions lists, US WARN notices
Hiring
All open roles →Hiring slowly: few roles were posted lately.
Backend is the largest family, 14 of open roles.
2Posted in 30 days13% of open roles are fresh
0%Remote roles0 of 16
1Roles in AI6% of open roles
1Hiring offices
Can they hire you from United States?by your location
Likely
35 open roles are in your country: you apply locally, no move needed.
Some postings offer visa sponsorship. Remote roles: 0.
Time to fillmedian days to close a role
Alion signals0-100
Demand62
Pay55
Your chance52
How badly they need people, whether they pay, how realistic getting in is.
Open roles over time−5%
Sep 14This week
Open roles a week: 22 then, 21 now
Are the postings real?
B
81 / 100Ninjatrader scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 4 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 75% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 50 days.
Ghost roles0%
Gone stale75%
Reposted0%
Where the openings areshare of open roles · trend
What postings ask forlanguages named in open roles
Degree asked
Bachelor's Degree 83%Master's Degree 17%
Experience asked: 6 years on average, in 14 postings. 6 postings state a degree.
Benefits named in postingsshare of open roles
Visa sponsorship in some rolesRelocation: none stated
Source: the company's careers site, read by Alion several times a day; market medians from all open roles of the same family
Pays 261% above the market estimate for the same roles.
$190kMedian
$91k – $220kTypical rangeUSD a year
$220kHighest paying rolePrincipal Software Engineer, Trading Systems
Source: the pay stated in the company's postings, normalised to USD a year
Visa
Full chapter →Named in the work visa registers of United States.
United StatesUS 5
#2,586 of 8,998 sponsors
5 ▲ 25%H-1B filings in 12 months
1Green card filings
$113kMedian offered salary
Who they sponsor
The salary offered for each occupationVisa pass · 90 credits In the register as NinjaTrader Group, LLC, Chicago, IL (+2 more)
Other sponsors in the same field
Morgan Stanley 1,037 filingsThe Vanguard Group 228 filingsLPL Financial 121 filingsJefferies 120 filings
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US Department of Labor · latest filing Mar 27, 2026
Footprint
Hiring in 1 city in 1 country.
1Cities
1Countries
ChicagoBusiest site
| Site | Type | Open roles | Hires most for | Engineering |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago United States | Headquarters | 16 | Backend, HR, Data Science | 69% |
Source: office addresses in postings and company registers
Peers
Compare →Ranked #8 by open roles among its 11 closest peers.
| # | Company | HQ | Open roles | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Robinhood | Menlo Park, United States | 156 | 1001-5000 | |
| 2 | Interactive Brokers | Greenwich, United States | 120 | 1001-5000 | |
| 3 | StoneX Group | New York, United States | 86 | 1001-5000 | |
| 4 | Alpaca | San Mateo, United States | 64 | 51-200 | |
| 5 | Clear Street | New York, United States | 38 | 501-1000 | |
| 6 | flatexDEGIRO | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 28 | 501-1000 | |
| 7 | Topstep | Chicago, United States | 17 | 51-200 | |
| 8 | Ninjatrader | Chicago, United States | 16 | 201-500 |
Source: Alion's similar-companies engine (industry segments, technologies, headquarters country, size)
Tech stack
Full chapter →Technologies named in job postings at Ninjatrader over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
95Technologies in use
25Postings analysed
88/100Stack modernityAI adopter
Frameworks & librariesOpenTelemetry 8%React.js 8%Akka 4%Apache Pekko 4%
Cloud & platformsGCP 48%Kubernetes 28%AWS 20%Apache Kafka 16%
AI & MLChatGPT 8%Claude 8%LLM 4%
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Full Ninjatrader tech stack95 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Source: the technologies named in the company's postings and on its site
Milestones
Nov 2026
Passed 1k App Store ratings
Sep 23
First executive search Creative Director
Aug 4
First sales or marketing role Account Manager, Evaluation Services
Feb 3, 2025
Released an app NinjaTrader | Futures Trading · App Store
2004
Founded
Each milestone is dated by its source: registers, filings, the press
Newsroom
top 0.36%Web presenceof 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
4.0 ★App Store1.1k ratings
Jul 72026
Press release · PRNewswire
/PRNewswire/ -- NinjaTrader Group, a global leader in retail futures trading, today announced two executive leadership appointments designed to advance the...
Jun 52026
Press release · PRNewswire
/PRNewswire/ -- UFC, the world
Apr 262026
News · benzinga.com
Dec 22, 20252025
News · nerdwallet.com
May 2, 20252025
News · Cointelegraph
Kraken has completed its acquisition of NinjaTrader and can offer traditional derivatives in the US, while the exchange
Mar 20, 20252025
News · YahooFinance
(Reuters) -Kraken, one of the world
Sources: the outlets named on each headline, each story once