Principal Software Engineer

As a Principal Software Engineer reporting to the VP of Engineering, you’ll play a critical role in supporting and enhancing the trading systems used for running the US Equities Markets. Initially, the primary responsibility be focused with working on the two Trade Reporting Facilities (TRFs) run by NASDAQ. Over time, however, the role is expected to grow into broader support of both the exchanges and the routing systems managed by NASDAQ.

You’ll thrive in this position if you’re collaborative, data-driven, love solving technical challenges, and have a passion for both technology and learning the business-needs driving the changes of the US Financial markets.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with business teams to design enhancements to the NASDAQ trading systems
• Work with engineering teams to design performance, capacity, and infrastructure improvements along
• Rearchitect solutions to remove technical debt
• Develop, test, and deploy these enhancements
• Guide QA and train the operations teams on new features
• Provide product support for the various NASDAQ systems

Required Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

Benefits & Rewards

We offer a competitive, holistic rewards package that supports the well-being of our employees and their families.

The base pay range for this role is $190,600–$317,700. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as skills, experience, education, training, and market location. In addition to base pay,

Nasdaq offers a short-term incentive (bonus / commission) and long-term incentive (equity), where applicable.