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The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) · 3 months ago

Lead Associate Principal, Software Engineering: Java

Chicago - 125 S Franklin

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$135K/yr - $222K/yr

7+ years exp

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, dedicated to promoting market stability and integrity. They are seeking a Lead Associate Principal in Software Engineering to collaborate on building their next generation clearing and settlement system, optimizing application performance, and recommending technologies to enhance development processes.

FinanceFinancial ServicesProperty Management

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Collaborating with others to deliver complex projects which may involve multiple systems

Develop solutions to complex technical challenges while coding, testing, troubleshooting, debugging, and documenting the systems you develop

Optimize application performance through analysis, code refactoring, and system tuning

Recommend technologies and tools that improve the efficiency and quality of OCC’s systems and development processes

Qualification

JavaCloud technologiesDistributed computing frameworksDevOps toolsUnit testingMicroservicesObject-oriented designPerformance optimizationKafkaSpringREST APITesting frameworksDatabase experience

Required

7+ year of experience in building high speed, data-centric solutions

Java 7+ years experience

Experience with high speed distributed computing frameworks like FLINK, Apache Spark, Kafka Streams, etc

Experience with distributed message brokers Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Amazon Kinesis, etc. Kafka

Experience with cloud technologies and migrations. Experience preferred with AWS foundational services like VPCs, Security groups, EC2, RDS, S3 ACLs, KMS, AWS CLI and IAM etc

Experience developing and delivering technical solutions using public cloud service providers like Amazon, Google

Experience writing unit and integration tests with testing frameworks like Junit, Citrus

Experience working with various types of databases like Relational, NoSQL, Object-based, Graph

Experience following Git workflows

Working knowledge of DevOps tools. Eg Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Helm and CI/CD pipeline etc

Familiarity with monitoring related tools and frameworks like Splunk, ElasticSearch, Prometheus, AppDynamics

Java-based software development experience

Fluent in object-oriented design, industry best practices, software patterns, and architecture principles

Strong testing experience which includes developing test plans, automated test cases, and working with test frameworks

Deep understanding of performance issues and multi-threaded development

Experience working with two or more of the following: web/mobile application development, Unix/Linux environments, event-driven systems, transaction processing systems, distributed and parallel systems, large software system development, security software development, public-cloud platforms

Hands-on experience with Java version 8 onwards, Spring, SpringBoot, Microservices, REST API

BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field required

Preferred

OCP Java SE 8 Programmer Certification

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Level

MS in Computer Science

Benefits

A hybrid work environment, up to 2 days per week of remote work

Tuition Reimbursement to support your continued education

Student Loan Repayment Assistance

Technology Stipend allowing you to use the device of your choice to connect to our network while working remotely

Generous PTO and Parental leave

401k Employer Match

Competitive health benefits including medical, dental and vision

Company

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC)

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The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization.

Founded in 1973

Chicago, Illinois, USA

1001-5000 employees

https://www.theocc.com/

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