The Role
As a Senior Specialist - Software Development reporting to the Head of Market Data and AI Enablement, you'll play a key hands-on role in designing, developing, troubleshooting, and supporting large-scale web applications for Nasdaq's Market Data Platform. This highly complex and business-critical platform powers market data experiences across Nasdaq.com and supports millions of retail investors worldwide, serving market data at massive scale and handling approximately 300 billion requests per month.
We are looking for a highly technical Software Developer with 6-12+ years of industry experience who is comfortable owning features end-to-end, from design and development through production support. You’ll bring strong software engineering fundamentals, a focus on code quality and maintainability, and the ability to develop, troubleshoot, and operate complex web platforms in a fast-paced engineering environment.
You’ll thrive in this role if you enjoy hands-on development, solving complex production issues, improving performance and reliability, and contributing to operational excellence across a business-critical platform.
What You'll Do
Design, develop, maintain, and support enterprise applications, scalable web applications, REST APIs, and system integrations.
Drive automation, engineering best practices, secure software development, and continuous improvement across the software development lifecycle.
Leverage AI-powered development tools to accelerate development, testing, debugging, documentation, code reviews, and overall developer productivity.
What You'll Bring
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, with 6-12+ years of enterprise software development experience.
Strong SQL Server programming skills, including query optimization, stored procedures, performance tuning, and database troubleshooting.
Understanding of software architecture, design patterns, scalability, reliability, and performance best practices.
Nice to Have
This position will be located in Toronto and offers the opportunity for a hybrid work environment at least 3 days a week in-office, subject to change, providing flexibility and accessibility for qualified candidates.
This posting is for an existing vacancy within Nasdaq
Come as You Are
Nasdaq is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and identities.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where diverse perspectives, experiences, and identities are valued and celebrated.
We ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodation throughout the hiring process.
What We Offer
We’re proud to offer a competitive rewards package that is meaningful, recognizes the unique needs of our employees and their families and incentivizes employees for their contribution to Nasdaq’s overall success.
The base pay range for this role is $104,000 - $148,000. In addition to base salary, Nasdaq provides a generous annual bonus/commission (short-term incentive), and equity (long-term incentive), comprehensive benefits, and opportunity for growth. Exact compensation may vary based on several job-related factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to: skill set, experience, education/training, business needs and market demands.
